Virtual reality and telepresence

Abstract

SUMMARY The UK Advanced Robotics Research Centre's VERDEX Project (Virtual Environment demote Driving Experiment) is an experimental test bed for investigating telepresence and virtual reality technologies in the design of human-system interfaces for telerobots. The achievements of the Project to date include the transformation of scanning laser rangefinder output to stereo virtual imagery (viewed using the VPL EyePhone TM ), the Teletact® Tactile Feedback Glove (for use with the VPL DataGlove TM ), a high-speed, head-slaved stereo TV system, and a T800/i860 SuperVision TM graphics/video parallel processing system.