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Virtual reality software is a type of software that is used to create and experience virtual reality (VR) environments. Virtual reality software typically includes a range of tools and features that are designed to enable users to create, manipulate, and interact with virtual environments and virtual objects. This can include tools for creating and editing 3D models, animations, and other elements of the virtual environment, as well as tools for designing and implementing interactions and behaviors for virtual agents, such as avatars or virtual humans.
Virtual reality software can be used for a variety of purposes, including training, education, entertainment, and research. For example, a VR software program might be used to create a virtual reality training environment for a particular task or skill, such as operating a piece of equipment or performing a medical procedure. VR software can also be used to create immersive learning environments, such as virtual classrooms or simulations of real-world scenarios. In the field of research, VR software can be used to create controlled experiments, or to study human behavior and cognition in virtual environments.
There are many different types of virtual reality software available, including commercial programs, such as Vizard and Worldviz, and open-source programs, such as OpenSim and Blender. These programs may have different features and capabilities, and may be suitable for different purposes and users.
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The effect of facial expressions on peripersonal and interpersonal spaces
G Ruggiero, F Frassinetti, Y Coello, M Rapuano… – Psychological …, 2017 – Springer
… 1). A total of twelve young confederates (half females) with neutral expression were selected among a colony of highly realistic virtual humans and were used for the present study (Vizard Complete Characters, WorldViz; USA) …
High psychosis liability is associated with altered autonomic balance during exposure to Virtual Reality social stressors
J Counotte, R Pot-Kolder, AM van Roon… – Schizophrenia …, 2017 – Elsevier
… The experiments are described in detail elsewhere (Veling et al., 2016). The virtual environment was a bar with an indoor and outdoor area, built by CleVR using Vizard software … Virtual humans (avatars) were sitting or standing at a table, chatted and had drinks …
The Impact of Autonomy Support on Identity Disclosure and Well-being among Sexual Minority Individuals
WS Ryan – 2017 – cloudfront.escholarship.org
… Combining advanced computational behavior analysis, cardiovascular psychophysiology, and virtual humans to infer affective psychological states … Linguistic Analysis and Word Count (LIWC) Text Analysis Software • WorldViz Virtual Reality Software (Vizard) • Coding written …
Effective Design of Educational Virtual Reality Applications for Medicine using Knowledge-Engineering Techniques.
F Górski, P Bu?, R Wichniarek… – Eurasia Journal of …, 2017 – pdfs.semanticscholar.org
… Different VR engines (eg Unity 3D, EON Studio, Vizard, Unreal Engine) allow different methods of programming … The virtual human body atlas application was made with participation of the authors, as a basic tool for learning anatomy for students of a medical university and …
A Review on Computer and Virtual based interventions for Autistic Children
K Sasikumar, AM Shashidhar… – Research Journal of …, 2017 – search.proquest.com
… Vizard, a VR design package was used to creating suitable environments depending on situations selected … Similarly, a virtual human “Laura” capable of delivering emotional support through dialogues that encouraged the autistic child while carrying out physical exercises …
The role of information and innovative technology for rehabilitation of children with autism: a systematic literature review
M Shoaib, I Hussain, HT Mirza… – 2017 17th International …, 2017 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… children. Vizard, a virtual Reality design, used to build up the virtual situations … investigation. View point vizard handshake unit provide link among eye tracker and the virtual reality coding platform. 19) Individualized Adaptive Response Module …
Technology-facilitated diagnosis and treatment of individuals with autism spectrum disorder: An engineering perspective
X Liu, Q Wu, W Zhao, X Luo – Applied Sciences, 2017 – mdpi.com
The rapid development of computer and robotic technologies in the last decade is giving hope to perform earlier and more accurate diagnoses of the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and more effective, consistent, and cost-conscious treatment. Besides the reduced cost, the main …
A public database of immersive VR videos with corresponding ratings of arousal, valence, and correlations between head movements and self report …
BJ Li, JN Bailenson, A Pines, WJ Greenleaf… – Frontiers in …, 2017 – frontiersin.org
… Participants interacted with on-screen prompts and rated the videos using an Oculus Rift remote. Vizard 5 software (Worldviz, San Francisco, CA) was used to program the rating system. The software ran on a 3.6 GHz Intel i7 computer with an Nvidia GTX 1080 graphics card …
Virtual Environment To Part Assembly Using Displacement Coordinates
J Rodrigues, PS Diniz – researchgate.net
… be determined by examining actual users who manipulate virtual models rather than programming virtual humans to perform … Personal Computer; NB: Notebook particular; Joystick: ThrustMaster Analog4 Softwares UNITY; SolidWorks; Blender; Vizard; MSVisio; MSPowerPoint …
In dialogue with an avatar, language behavior is identical to dialogue with a human partner
E Heyselaar, P Hagoort, K Segaert – Behavior research methods, 2017 – Springer
… The authors explain this as: “when social cues and presence as created by a virtual human come into play, automatic social reactions appear to override the initial beliefs in shaping lexical alignment” (p … The experiment was programmed and run using WorldViz’s Vizard software …
Generation of communicative intentions for virtual agents in an intelligent virtual environment: application to virtual learning environment
B Nakhal – 2017 – tel.archives-ouvertes.fr
… MURML Multimodal Utterance Representation Markup Language VHToolkit Virtual Human Toolkit UDP User Datagram Protocol … the VLE to transmit training information to participants. The Vizard™ VR toolkit3 is used to construct the virtual environment …
The virtual maze: A behavioural tool for measuring trust
J Hale, MEM Payne, KM Taylor, D Paoletti… – The Quarterly Journal …, 2017 – Taylor & Francis
… Participants sat at a desk in front of a 90 x 160cm projector screen. We used Vizard virtual reality software (Worldviz, 2014) to display a virtual environment on the screen (Figure 1A) … collection of characters (‘Complete Characters HD’) supplied by Rocketbox Libraries for Vizard …
Using novel methods to examine the role of mimicry in trust and rapport
J Hale – 2017 – discovery.ucl.ac.uk
Page 1. 1 Using Novel Methods to Examine the Role of Mimicry in Trust and Rapport Joanna Hale Thesis submitted to UCL for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, December 2016 Page 2. 2 I, Joanna Hale, confirm that the work presented in this thesis is my own. Where …
How social opinion influences syntactic processing—An investigation using virtual reality
E Heyselaar, P Hagoort, K Segaert – PloS one, 2017 – journals.plos.org
… they face down. Having the participants face forward throughout the entire experiment distributes this weight more comfortably. The experiment was programmed and run using WorldViz’s Vizard software. Participants wore an …
Factors That Contribute to Individual and Sex Differences in Perspective Taking Performance
PN Gunalp – 2017 – escholarship.org
… Materials Participants used an Oculus Rift DK2 (60 Hz refresh rate) headset during the Virtual Reality Spatial Orientation Test (VR SOT) trials, which viewed a virtual environment that was programmed using Vizard software. The single work station consisted of two monitors …
Influences on the magnitude of syntactic priming
E Heyselaar – 2017 – pure.mpg.de
Page 1. 124 Influences on the magnitude of syntactic priming Evelien Heyselaar Page 2. Influences on the magnitude of syntactic priming Evelien Heyselaar Page 3. Influences on the magnitude of syntactic priming PhD Thesis, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics …