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Sensorized Garment Augmented 3D Pervasive Virtual Reality System

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Pervasive Computing

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Virtual reality (VR) technology has matured to a point where humans can navigate in virtual scenes; however, providing them with a comfortable fully immersive role in VR remains a challenge. Currently available sensing solutions do not provide ease of deployment, particularly in the seated position due to sensor placement restrictions over the body, and optic-sensing requires a restricted indoor environment to track body movements. Here we present a 52-sensor laden garment interfaced with VR, which offers both portability and unencumbered user movement in a VR environment. This chapter addresses the systems engineering aspects of our pervasive computing solution of the interactive sensorized 3D VR and presents the initial results and future research directions. Participants navigated in a virtual art gallery using natural body movements that were detected by their wearable sensor shirt and then mapped the signals to electrical control signals responsible for VR scene navigation. The initial results are positive, and offer many opportunities for use in computationally intelligentman-machine multimedia control.

This research has been approved by the ethical committee of Macquarie University Sydney Australia, under the humans research ethical act of New South Wales, Australia, in approval letter No.HE23FEB2007-D05008 titled Personal Augmented Reality and Immersive System basedBody Machine Interface (PARIS based BMI).

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  1. Vitrual Interactive Simulations of Reality Labs, Department of Computing, Macquarie University, NSW, 2109, Sydney, Australia

    Tauseef Gulrez (Faculty of Science), Alessandro Tognetti & Danilo De Rossi

  2. Department of Computer Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Al-Ghurair University, Dubai Academic City, 37374, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Tauseef Gulrez (Faculty of Science)

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  1. Fac. Computers & Information, Cairo University, Ahmed Zewal Street 5, Giza, 12613, Egypt

    Aboul-Ella Hassanien

  2. School of Engineering &, Deakin University, Geelong, 3217, Australia

    Jemal H. Abawajy

  3. Technology, Norwegian University of Science &, O.S. Bragstads plass 2E, Trondheim, 7491, Norway

    Ajith Abraham

  4. Dept. Computer Science, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom

    Hani Hagras

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Gulrez, T., Tognetti, A., De Rossi, D. (2009). Sensorized Garment Augmented 3D Pervasive Virtual Reality System. In: Hassanien, AE., Abawajy, J., Abraham, A., Hagras, H. (eds) Pervasive Computing. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-599-4_5

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