Virtual environments 2000 : proceedings of the Eurographics Workshop in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 1-2, 2000

Invited Talk.- Tracking.- Practical Calibration Procedures for Augmented Reality.- Evaluation of Rotation Correction Techniques for Electromagnetic Position Tracking Systems.- Interaction Between Real and Virtual Humans: Playing Checkers.- Interaction.- A 'Plug and Play' Approach to Testing Virtual Environment Interaction Techniques.- Dynamics in Interaction on the Responsive Workbench.- Developing Effective Navigation Techniques in Virtual Environments.- Evaluation.- The Interaction Between Individuals' Immersive Tendencies and the Sensation of Presence in a Virtual Environment.- Dextrous VR in Professional Settings: the Importance of Stereoscopic Display and Hand-Image Collocation.- The Effects of Group Collaboration on Presence in a Collaborative Virtual Environment.- Distributed Environments.- Quality of Service Management for a Media-Enhanced Virtual Meeting Place.- An Asynchronous Architecture to Manage Communication, Display, and User Interaction in Distributed Virtual Environments.- Algorithms.- Time Critical Computing and Rendering of Molecular Surfaces Using a Zonal Map.- A Volumetric Virtual Environment for Catheter Insertion Simulation.- Continuously-Adaptive Haptic Rendering.- VE's in Industrial Design.- Towards Immersive Modeling - Challenges and Recommendations: A Workshop Analyzing the Needs of Designers.- Interacting with Simulation Data in an Immersive Environment.- ERGONAUT: A Tool for Ergonomic Analyses in Virtual Environments.- Case Studies.- Virtual Planetarium in CyberStage.- Accelerometer-Based Motion Tracking for Orchestra Conductor Following..- Beyond Academic Excercises-Strategies Towards a Profitable Implementation of VR Technology in Company Work Processes.- Authors Index.- Color Plates.