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Distributed Collaborative Immersive Virtual Reality Framework for the Mining Industry

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This paper describes a framework for experiments in Human-Computer Interaction, using immersive virtual reality, computer vision and other sensors, and remote collaboration. The proposed framework is demonstrated in a number of applications.

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Bednarz, T., James, C., Widzyk-Capehart, E., Caris, C., Alem, L. (2015). Distributed Collaborative Immersive Virtual Reality Framework for the Mining Industry. In: Billingsley, J., Brett, P. (eds) Machine Vision and Mechatronics in Practice. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45514-2_4

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