User Perception of the Physical & Behavioral Realism of a Maritime Virtual Reality Environment

Perception enhanced real-time Virtual Reality (VR) applications are used in various fields such as education and entertainment. The physical and behavioral realism of such applications are important in different perspectives. We have developed a perception enhanced real-time VR solution for maritime applications such as naval training, water way designs and simulate military scenes. In this paper, we present brief description of a six degrees of freedom (6-DOF) real-time mathematical ship motion simulation model and validation techniques for physical/ behavioral realism of a perception enhanced maritime VR environment. The user perceived physical and behavioral realism of the VR solution is investigated with user tests and preliminary results are presented.

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