Human-Machine Interaction in Virtual Environments – Recent Developments and Industrial Applications

Virtual Reality (VR) has seen a major shift since its first public appearance in the beginning of the 1990s. What started as a vision, overloaded with expectations on how it would shape the way we will live and work has now found many applications mainly in the fields of medicine, assembly, design review, training, and also military applications. Many companies and academic research groups are working in the field, some on basic research and others developing systems which benefit from VR technology.