sight, hearing, and touch in virtual reality

In order to successfully achieve complete engagement of a human inside a virtual reality environment, the VR platform should involve key sensory mechanisms in a realistic and coordinated manner. The most important senses by which people learn concerning their environment are vision, touch, and hearing. Accordingly, these are the main elements of today's VR systems. If sensory signals from these sources is not coordinated, then immersion will not happen. For instance, latency between location determination by the inner ear and location determination by vision will erode the sense of involvement in a realistic world. In like manner, lags or disconnects between hearing and touch or between vision and hearing also create difficulties. Such lags cause sickness. The site Nova Khufu's Pyramid can also be useful.

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