Towards high-fidelity multi-sensory virtual environments

Virtual environments are playing an increasingly important role for training people about real world situations, especially through the use of serious games. A key concern is thus the level of realism that virtual environments require in order to have an accurate match of what the user can expect in the real world with what they perceive in the virtual one. Failure to achieve the right level of realism runs the real risk that the user may adopt a different reaction strategy in the virtual world than would be desired in reality.