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[Virtual + 1] * Reality

Blending “Virtual” and “Normal” Reality to Enrich Our Experience

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Virtual Reality aims at creating an artificial environment that can be perceived as a substitute to a real setting. Much effort in research and development goes into the creation of virtual environments that in their majority are perceivable only by eyes and hands. The multisensory nature of our perception, however, allows and, arguably, also expects more than that. As long as we are not able to simulate and deliver a fully sensory believable virtual environment to a user, we could make use of the fully sensory, multi-modal nature of real objects to fill in for this deficiency. The idea is to purposefully integrate real artifacts into the application and interaction, instead of dismissing anything real as hindering the virtual experience. The term virtual reality – denoting the goal, not the technology – shifts from a core virtual reality to an “enriched” reality, technologically encompassing both the computer generated and the real, physical artifacts. Together, either simultaneously or in a hybrid way, real and virtual jointly provide stimuli that are perceived by users through their senses and are later formed into an experience by the user’s mind.

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The author would like to deeply thank all her collaborators: Martin Berghoff, Kristopher J. Blom, Jan Brauer, Matthias Haringer, Roland Schröder-Kroll and all of her students who worked on advancing the GranulatSynthese project in WS 2007/2008.

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    Steffi Beckhaus

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  3. Dept. Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Sitterson Hall, Chapel Hill, 27599-3175, North Carolina, USA

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Beckhaus, S. (2011). [Virtual + 1] * Reality. In: Brunnett, G., Coquillart, S., Welch, G. (eds) Virtual Realities. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-99178-7_5

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