Perception Enhanced Virtual Environment for Maritime Applications

Abstract

This paper presents the development of a realtime
perception enhanced virtual environment for maritime
applications which simulates real-time six degrees of freedom
ship motions (pitch, heave, roll, surge, sway, and yaw) under
user interactions, environmental conditions and various threat
scenarios. This simulation system consists of reliable ship
motion prediction system and perception enhanced immersive
virtual environment with greater ecological validity. This
virtual environment supports multiple-display viewing that can
greatly enhance user perception and we developed the ecological
environment for strong sensation of immersion. In this virtual
environment it is possible to incorporate real world ships,
geographical sceneries, several environmental conditions and
wide range of visibility and illumination effects. This system can
be used for both entertainment and educational applications such
as consol level computer games, teaching & learning applications
and various virtual reality applications. Especially this frame
work can be used to create immersive multi user environments.