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Industrial Application Potential of Virtual Reality An Empirical Study of Demands, Barriers, and Drivers

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Virtual Environments ’98

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Nearly everyone is pulled into the spell of Virtual Reality upon initial contact. VR is already a fixed ingredient in products of the entertainment industry, and has achieved meaningful market shares in a very short time.

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  1. Thomas Lechler
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  2. Alexandre Saad
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. GMD-Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik, IMK-VMSD, Schloß Birlinghoven, St. Augustin, Federal Republic of Germany

    Martin Göbel

  2. VIS-LAB, Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (FhG IAO), Stuttgart, Federal Republic of Germany

    Jürgen Landauer  & Matthias Wapler  & 

  3. HLRS Visualisation Department, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Federal Republic of Germany

    Ulrich Lang

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Lechler, T., Saad, A. (1998). Industrial Application Potential of Virtual Reality An Empirical Study of Demands, Barriers, and Drivers. In: Göbel, M., Landauer, J., Lang, U., Wapler, M. (eds) Virtual Environments ’98. Eurographics. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-7519-4_31

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