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Client
Radboud University Nijmegen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Social and Cultural Psychology
Equipment Used
WorldViz Vizard 3D software toolkit, WorldViz Vizard Live Characters real-time behavior motion-capture plug-in to Vizard VR toolkit, WorldViz Complete Characters avatar package
Research Field
Immersive Virtual Environment Technology (IVET) is an innovative new research tool in the area of behavioral science. The RIVERlab at Nijmegen is one of the first high-end IVET labs in Europe dedicated to behavioral science research.
The labs are equipped with a sophisticated computer, utilizing high-end stereoscopic video processors, projection, and tracking systems to create immersive, three-dimensional, computer generated environments. A virtual environment can be defined as synthetic sensory information that leads to perceptions of environments and their contents as if they were not synthetic. An immersive virtual environment completely surrounds an individual (see Blascovich, Loomis, Beall, Swinth, Hoyt, & Bailenson, 2001).
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