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Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality. Introduction Devices Technology – Hardware & Software Architecture Applications. Introduction. Virtual Reality is defined as: Simulated environment Interaction with human senses Reactive to input from person What can be VR Just about any simulated environment.

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Virtual Reality

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  1. Virtual Reality

  2. Introduction • Devices • Technology – Hardware & Software • Architecture • Applications

  3. Introduction • Virtual Reality is defined as: • Simulated environment • Interaction with human senses • Reactive to input from person • What can be VR • Just about any simulated environment

  4. VR came about as an idea from a cinematographer named Morton Heilig in 1960 • Ivan Sutherland continued when Heilig ran out of money • Military liked Sutherland’s idea and helped him develop it. (around 1966) • NASA really liked it, poured in tons of money. (late 60’s / early 70’s)

  5. What is VR? • Just about any simulated environment a user can actively experience • Definition: A computer generated, ‘immersive’ (or wide field),multi-sensory information program which tracks a user in real time.

  6. Devices

  7. Sight Head Mounted Displays (HMD): was the first device providing its wearer with an immersive experience. Evans and Sutherland demonstrated a head-mounted stereo display already in 1965.

  8. Binocular Omni-Orientation Monitor (BOOM) BOOM is a head coupled stereoscopic display device. Screens and optical system are housed in a box that is attached to a multi-link arm.

  9. Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE) A room with projections on all walls, floor and ceiling The users wear shutter glasses to get a 3D view of the world. The users are able to move and control the environment with some kind of input mechanism Camera Device in hand

  10. 3D VIDEO Eyewear winner of a 2005 & 2006 Consumer Electronics Show Design Award.

  11. Data Glove Outfitted with sensors on the fingers as well as an overall position/orientation tracking equipment. Enables natural interaction with virtual objects by hand gesture recognition.

  12. Technology- Hardware • Control Devices • Control virtual objects in 3 dimensions.

  13. Technology-Software • Toolkits • Programming libraries. • Provide function libraries (C & C++). • Complete programs with graphical interfaces for creating worlds without resorting to detailed programming. • Software packages available in market • Multiverse (Freeware) • Virtual Reality Studio • Sense8 World Tool Kit (WTK) • Autodesk Cyberspace Development kit

  14. VRML(Virtual Reality Modeling Language) • Standard language for interactive simulation within the World Wide Web. • Allows to create "virtual worlds" networked via the Internet and hyperlinked with the World Wide Web. • Aspects of virtual world display, interaction and internetworking can be specified using VRML without being dependent on special gear like HMD. • VR models can be viewed by Netscape or IE with a browser plug-in.

  15. Architecture of VR System • Input Processor, Simulation Processor, Rendering Processor and World Database. visual, auditory, touch… Position &Orientation InputProcessor RenderingProcessor SimulationProcessor World Database

  16. Components of VR System (Cont’d) • Input Processor • Control the devices used to input information to the computer.The object is to get the coordinate data to the rest of the system with minimal lag time. • Keyboard, mouse, 3D position trackers, a voice recognition system, etc.

  17. Components of VR System (Cont’d) • Simulation Processor • Core of a VR system. • Takes the user inputs along with any tasks programmed into the world and determine the actions that will take place in the virtual world.

  18. Components of VR System (Cont’d) • Rendering Processor • Create the sensations that are output to the user. • Separate rendering processes are used for visual, auditory and other sensory systems. • Each renderer take a description of the world stat from the simulation process or derive it directly from the World Database for each time step.

  19. Components of VR System (Cont’d) • World Database (World Description Files) • Store the objects that inhabit the world, scripts that describe actions of those objects.

  20. Applications • Entertainment • More vivid • Move exciting • More attractive

  21. Applications (Cont’d) • Medicine • Practice performing surgery. • Perform surgery on a remote patient. • Teach new skills in a safe, controlledenvironment.

  22. Applications (Cont’d) • Manufacturing • Easy to modify • Low cost • High efficient

  23. Applications (Cont’d) • Education & Training • Driving simulators. • Flight simulators. • Ship simulators. • Tank simulators.

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