Applications

 

Telemedicine

  • Knowledge Base Project's Medical Resources on the Net
  • Medicine and Virtual Reality: A Guide to the Literature (MedVR) by Toni Emerson, Jerry Prothero, and Suzanne Weghorst (1994)
  • Medical robotics and computer assisted surgery links
  • Telemedicine Information Exchange (TIE)
  • Telemedicine links
  • Telepresence in Medicine by Vincent Wong
  • Virtual Environments for Surgical Training and Augmentation
  • Virtual Reality in Medicine: A Survey of the State of the Art by John Waterworth (1999)
  • Virtual Reality for Health Care: A Survey by Judi Moline
  • Where are we going? Virtual reality in medicine by Gábor Székely and Richard M Satava (1999)
  • Virtual Reality in Medicine - New Conceptions for the Oncologist by Jackie Kelly (2000)
  • Virtual Reality in Medicine Lab at the University of Illinois
  • The Virtual Surgeon, IEEE Spectrum July 2000
  • TeleMedicine Bibliography, 1966-1995

VR therapy & rehabilitation

  • Virtual Environments in Psycho-Neuro-Physiological Assessment and Rehabilitation (VRepar)
  • Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy at GVU Center
  • Virtually Better, Inc.
  • Virtual Reality Therapy Center, Kennesaw State University, USA
  • Phobia Treatment in VR at TU Delft, The Netherlands
  • Papers from the Virtual Reality and Persons with Disabilities Conference (1992)
  • Report on Research Findings: VEs for treating PTSD (2000)
  • NERVE - Needle Exposure theRapy in Virtual Environments
  • Virtual Reality Biofeedback
  • Mental Health Conference Listings
  • The Center for Advanced Multimedia Psychotherapy (CAMP)
  • VR treatment for burn pain

Presence & communication

  • Telerelating by Carrie Heeter
  • Microsoft Virtual Worlds Group
  • Collaborative Work in Virtual Environments by Kai-Mikael Jää-Aro
  • Groupware Links
  • Video-Mediated Communication Bibliography

Telerobotics & devices controlled over the internet

  • Proceedings of the Workshop Current Challenges in Internet Robotics
  • PRoP - Personal Roving Presence
  • NASA's Cool Robot of the Week
  • Ken Goldberg's Tele-Garden and collection of links
  • Australia's Tele-Robot on the Web (longest running web robot)
  • A collection of links to Internet Robots and Cameras
  • Robot links at LEGO Mindstorms
  • Thingys On The Net - a large collection of internet connected devices
  • Stephen Wilson's Telepresence and Robotics Resources
  • Christoph Bartneck's Roboclub

VR & education

  • VR & Education Literature Survey
  • On The Net Resources - Education and Training
  • Learning About Complex Environmental Processes In Immersive and Non-Immersive Virtual Environments

VR & entertainment

  • CyberMind - VR, location-based entertainment
  • Dreamality Technologies - Virtual hang gliding, paragliding, etc.
  • Ferris Productions Inc. - VR and arcade systems
  • nWave Pictures - 3-D Mania
  • List of VR Entertainment Centers
  • VR Sports

VR & theater

  • Virtual Theater project at Stanford
  • Janet Murray's Hamlet on the Holodeck resource page
  • CCSR's interactive immersive drama program proposal and research strategy
  • Art in Real-Time: Theatre and Virtual Reality by Mark Reaney (2000)

Telepresence & interactive art

  • Art & Technology resources
  • Artistic Representations in Virtual Reality (VRArt) by Toni Emerson and Debra Revere (1997)
  • Char Davies' Immersence site (home of Osmose)
  • Ken Goldberg's Dislocation of Intimacy
  • Eduardo Kac
    • Telepresence Art (paper)
    • Telepresence art on the internet (paper with Ed Bennett)
    • Teleporting an Unknown State
  • Tina LaPorta's Distance
  • Matthew Stein's PumaPaint Project
  • Stephen Wilson's collection of links to artists experimenting with telepresence

Wearables & augmented reality

  • MIT wearable computing page
  • Smart Rooms
  • UNC Ultrasound/Medical Augmented Reality Research
  • Wearable Computing Resource Page
  • Wearables Webcrawler