Final

Question 1

A reality that is almost reality, creating a world that tricks the brain into perceiving it as reality (oymoron)

Answer 1

virtual reality

Question 2

Allows digital elements to combine and interact with the real world

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Augmented reality

Question 3

Allows real world elements to combine and interact with a mostly virtual world

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Augmented Vitality

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Combine elements of the real world with elements of the virtual one

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Mixed Reality

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Often understood as a matter of consensus

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Reality or Actuality

Question 6

Who created the Sensorama? (considered first VR system)

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Morton Heilig (1950’s)

Question 7

Who created the first HMD and what was it called?

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Ivan Sutherland- The Sword of Damocles

Question 8

A point in virtual technology where computers can control matter. Ex. A chair in the virtual world would be solid enough to literally sit in

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The Ultimate Display

Question 9

First one of these was The Sword of Damocles

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Head Mounted Display (HMD)

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The hardware and software that full sensory experiences are built on

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Reality Systems

Question 11

List the components of a reality system

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Visual displays, audio, haptics, motion platforms, treadmills

Question 12

The transfer of information between two or more people, animals, entities, or machines

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Communication

Question 13

The direct transfer of energy with no interpretation

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Direct communication

Question 14

Making sense of direct communication, thinking, writing, language interpretation

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Indirect communication

Question 15

The theory that nearly humanoid figures make people uncomfortable (Mashiro Moir). Psychologically based on a fear of death

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The Uncanny Valley

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Quantifiable way to determine how lost in the world of media the user is

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Immersion

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The feeling of being inside a space even when not located there

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Presence

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Real object and events in the world (objective reality): Intractable objects

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Distal Stimuli

Question 19

Energy from distal stimuli that affect our senses (sounds, sights, smells, feels)

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Proximal Stimuli

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Our ability to see, hear, or become aware or something through the senses

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Perception

Question 21

A physical feeling or perception resulting from something that happens to or comes into contact with the body

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Sensation

Question 22

Nerve cells send out electrochemical signals about: Pressure, temperature, texture, shape, and vibration

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Transduction

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The space immediately surrounding our bodies

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Peripersonal space

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List Adverse health effects of VR

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Motion sickness, eye strain, fatigue, hardware, injury

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Illusion of self-motion wherein the body is not moving in the direction it appears to be

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Motion Sickness

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Delay or lag time (very problematic with the concept of immersion)

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Latency

Question 27

When someone feels like their body is moving when no movement is taking place

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Vection

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Often also called VR video, immersive video, or spherical vide

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360 video

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The smallest psychological unit of time that a human can sense

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Perceptual Moment

Question 30

A segment of time at a particular location that is perceived to give a beginning and an end in a series of perceptual moments that unfold over time

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Event

Question 31

Our perception of stimuli takes time, so everything we see is in the past

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Lag

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The ability to control the force you output on an object

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Proprioception

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The illusion of being inside a sound field (surround sound)

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Stereoscopy or spatial audio

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Different sounds for each ear (important for immersion)

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Binaural sound

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A pressure wave that moves through a material medium (air, water, etc.) created by rapid vibrations

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Sound

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A science that fixes the exact dimensions and positions of objects in space, also an art of illusion

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Perspective

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Provides input for balance and sensing physical motion

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The Vestibular system

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Any form of interaction involving touch

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Haptics

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All senses together

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The sensorium

Question 40

A perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway (ex. people seeing sounds)

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Synesthesia

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Brain binds together different sensory stimuli

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Multimodal perception

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Comes with unsteadiness, often results in motion sickness

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Sensory mismatches

Question 43

The brain forms synapses to recognize sensory experiences

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Neuroplaticity

Question 44

Position of an object appears from different lines of sight (ex. look at an object with one eye and switch to the other one; object appears to move)

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Parallax

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Images of distal stimuli appear to move at different rates depending on speed of movement and the objects' distance from our bodies

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Motion Parallax

Question 46

the phenomenon whereby the 3D structural form of an object can be perceived when the object is moving

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Kinetic depth effect

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Relative movements on the retina

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Motion cues

Question 48

Provide 2D images for the real objects we see

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Pictorial depth cues

Question 49

Difference in image location of stimuli between left and right eyes

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Binocular disparity

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Forms a sense of depth (binocular fusion)

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Stereopsis

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Focus state of eyes lenses

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Accomodation

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Relative rotation of eyeballs in sockets

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Vergence

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Different images for each eye

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Disaparity

Question 54

What type of HMD: One image for one single eye

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Monocular HMD

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What type of HMD: Two Identical images, one for each eye

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Biocular HMD

Question 56

What type of HMD: Two distinct images, one for each eye (provides a sense of stereopsis)

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Binocular HMD

Question 57

Roughly 3% to 5% of the population has this; unable to perceive depth when cued soley by disparity differences in modern 3D displays

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Stereoblindess

Question 58

How much can be seen without moving from a fixed position

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Field of view

Question 59

Total area that can be captured by a movable sensor

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Field of regard

Question 60

The philosophical idea that human beings are at the center of everything, that they are central to existence itself

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Anthropocentrism

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Giving human qualities to inanimate objects

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Anthropomorphism