This paper presents a study on a global evaluation of spatial auditory displays in a
constrained virtual environment. Forty subjects had to find nine sound sources in a virtual …

As current virtual environments are less visually rich than real-world environments, careful
consideration must be given to their design to ameliorate the lack of visual cues. One …

Interactive virtual environments (VEs) are gaining more and more fidelity. Their high quality
stimuli undoubtedly increase the feeling of presence and immersion as “being in the world” …

In order to enable the user of a virtual reality system to be fully immersed in the virtual
environment, the user must be presented with believable sensory input. Although the …

This study presents the combined efforts of three research groups toward the investigation of
a cognitive issue through the development and implementation of a general purpose VR …

This study presents two approaches for representing space through sound, allowing being
aware of what is going on out of visible screen. The first one, called decontextualized …

Because virtual environments are less visually rich than real-world environments, careful
consideration must be given to their design, otherwise much of the potential for virtual reality …

This paper presents a novel spatial auditory display that combines a virtual environment
based on a Digital Waveguide Mesh (DWM) model of a small tubular shape with a binaural …

We constantly use our hearing to obtain information about our environment. The sounds we
hear provide us with detailed information about our surroundings and can assist us in …

Two studies were performed to investigate the sense of presence within stereoscopic virtual
environments as a function of the addition or absence of auditory cues. The first study …