Multidimensional virtual reality-MVR method: a new method of visualization of multidimensional worlds

摘要

The paper presents a new, original method of multidimensional worlds' visualization. It allows to present views of any dimension objects out of which it is possible to construct even the most complicated multidimensional virtual world on a computer screen. Due to this, it is possible to observe multidimensional worlds modeled in this way, analyze mutual relations between multidimensional objects, move between them and, most importantly, verify whether human brain is able to adapt to the perception of more than three-dimensional space. This paper presents example interior views of four-dimensional and five-dimensional labyrinths. It also presents results of the research performed on 97 IT students at the AGH University of Science and Technology. Students in total made 357 attempts to leave virtual four-dimensional and five-dimensional labyrinths, each having three difficulty levels. The method presented in this paper is sufficiently general to allow observation of objects in an n-dimensional space for any n >= 3. Simultaneously, it is the natural extension of our reality perception because using this method for n=3 we obtain views known to us from our human experience from the three-dimensional space.