CybercinétoseVirtual reality sickness, or VR sickness occurs when exposure to a virtual environment causes symptoms that are similar to motion sickness symptoms. The most common symptoms are general discomfort, eye strain, headache, stomach awareness, nausea, vomiting, pallor, sweating, fatigue, drowsiness, disorientation, and apathy. Other symptoms include postural instability and retching. Common causes are low frame rate, input lag, and the vergence-accommodation-conflict.
Six degrees of freedomSix degrees of freedom (6DOF) refers to the six mechanical degrees of freedom of movement of a rigid body in three-dimensional space. Specifically, the body is free to change position as forward/backward (surge), up/down (heave), left/right (sway) translation in three perpendicular axes, combined with changes in orientation through rotation about three perpendicular axes, often termed yaw (normal axis), pitch (transverse axis), and roll (longitudinal axis).
Stochastic simulationA stochastic simulation is a simulation of a system that has variables that can change stochastically (randomly) with individual probabilities. Realizations of these random variables are generated and inserted into a model of the system. Outputs of the model are recorded, and then the process is repeated with a new set of random values. These steps are repeated until a sufficient amount of data is gathered. In the end, the distribution of the outputs shows the most probable estimates as well as a frame of expectations regarding what ranges of values the variables are more or less likely to fall in.
Cave automatic virtual environmentA cave automatic virtual environment (better known by the recursive acronym CAVE) is an immersive virtual reality environment where projectors are directed to between three and six of the walls of a room-sized cube. The name is also a reference to the allegory of the Cave in Plato's Republic in which a philosopher contemplates perception, reality, and illusion. The CAVE was invented by Carolina Cruz-Neira, Daniel J. Sandin, and Thomas A. DeFanti at the University of Illinois, Chicago Electronic Visualization Laboratory in 1992.
Computer architecture simulatorA computer architecture simulator is a program that simulates the execution of computer architecture. Computer architecture simulators are used for the following purposes: Lowering cost by evaluating hardware designs without building physical hardware systems. Enabling access to unobtainable hardware. Increasing the precision and volume of computer performance data. Introducing abilities that are not normally possible on real hardware such as running code backwards when an error is detected or running in faster-than-real time.
Simulateur de conduiteLe terme simulateur de conduite désigne en général un simulateur de véhicule terrestre comme un véhicule automobile, un véhicule ferroviaire ou même celui d'un navire. C'est un simulateur piloté dans lequel un conducteur réel est capable de conduire un véhicule virtuel.
Simulations and games in economics educationA simulation game is "a game that contains a mixture of skill, chance, and strategy to simulate an aspect of reality, such as a stock exchange". Similarly, Finnish author Virpi Ruohomäki states that "a simulation game combines the features of a game (competition, cooperation, rules, participants, roles) with those of a simulation (incorporation of critical features of reality). A game is a simulation game if its rules refer to an empirical model of reality".
Monde virtuelvignette|Un sous-marin jaune dans le monde virtuel de Second Life. Un monde virtuel est un monde créé artificiellement par un logiciel informatique et pouvant héberger une communauté d'utilisateurs présents sous forme d'avatars ayant la capacité de s'y déplacer et d'y interagir. La représentation de ce monde et de ses habitants est en deux ou en trois dimensions. Ce monde peut simuler le monde réel, avec ses lois physiques telles que la gravité, le temps, le climat, la géographie ou tout au contraire être régie par d'autres.
Dispositif haptiqueUn dispositif haptique (du grec: ἁπτικός haptikós – tactile) est un système tactilo-kinesthésique physique ou mécanique, éventuellement robotique qui peut notamment créer une communication entre un humain et une partie de son environnement, le cas échéant entre un opérateur et un environnement virtuel. Il permet aux utilisateurs de concevoir, modeler et manipuler des objets dans un environnement virtuel avec un certain ressenti tactile (toucher) et la perception kinesthésique (retour de force, qui sont de plus en plus souvent utilisés comme retours sensoriels dans les systèmes de Réalité Virtuelle).
