Virtual reality and telepresence: an initiative within an initiative

The author reports on the virtual environment remote driving experiment (VERDEX) project carried out at the Advanced Robotics Research Centre. The aim of the project was to develop an experimental test bed for human factors evaluations of virtual reality and telepresence technologies and to study the impact of new human-computer interface and telepresence technologies on the performance of the human operator in control of a remote robotic system.<
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