Sentence examples for floating beacon from inspiring English sources
A navigation aid consisted of a floating beacon that indicated the general direction to the destination and its current distance (Fig. 1b).
In a series of virtual environment navigation experiments, we previously demonstrated the utility of a floating beacon overlaid onto a virtual scene, showing the direction and distance to a goal destination (Brunyé et al., 2016a).
Lower panel depicts a view from within the virtual environment (approaching an intersection), demonstrating the current destination (Find the Pet Store), remaining number of beacons (1), trial number (1/40), compass rose, and the floating beacon (PET STORE 559 m).
During each of the 40 trials, the participants could request up to five floating beacons to help orient them toward the current destination's general direction.
While wayfinding to each destination, participants could request a floating visual beacon overlaid onto the virtual environment, up to five times during each origin-to-destination trial, to help guide them in the correct direction.
They were provided with several opportunities to view a floating on-screen beacon for 5 s, to show them the general direction of each destination.
The coast guard said it had called off a search for a lone American rower in the Atlantic after his emergency search beacon was found floating alone in the sea.
Taking cues from the likes of Floating Points, Four Tet and Beacon, the tracks melt together to form Planete's specific brand of atmosphere with a well rounded beat.
"I'm floating down and I'm thinking of Beacon," recalled Mr. Cahill.
EL ALTO, Bolivia — Turn a corner in this sprawling, bustling, fast-growing city and the Ovando family home suddenly bursts into view, a party-colored mirage floating above the drab, brick-red metropolis like a beacon of an alternate Andean future.
One favored story tells of a family moving into a lighthouse, of the birds that die flying into its beacon, of a buoy that turns out to be a floating mine.
