CS461561 Virtual Environments: Principles

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CS461/561Virtual Environments Principles
ApplicationsVR Applications

• 4-11-2007
• Prof. Searleman
• SC375
• jets_at_clarkson.edu

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Outline

• Applications of Virtual Reality
• Virtools AI Pack
• Exercise 10
• NOTE Class on this Monday, 4/16, will be held
  in the Advanced Visualization Lab (CAMP 155)

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Applications for VE

• National Research Council (1995)
• Design, Manufacturing Marketing
• Medecine Health Care
• Teleoperation for Hazardous Operations
• Training
• Education
• Information Visualization
• Telecommunications Teletravel
• National Defense
• Entertainment

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Design, Manufacturing Marketing

• Developing design requirements e.g.
  architectural walkthroughs of spatial designs
  such as kitchens, aircraft interiors, etc.
• Building prototypes
• Configuration management of production lines
  e.g. plant layouts
• Marketing how customers actually experience a
  product

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Virtual Product Development
Engineers used virtual prototypes to confirm that
movable parts in this motor coach would fit
properly and identify interferences before
physical prototypes were built.
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Virtual Product Development
An early space planning tool, developed by
Virtalis (Virtual Presence Ltd) and used for
retail by Sainsburys supermarkets (1993)
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Medecine Health Care

• Teaching Anatomy e.g. Visible Human project
• Surgical Training e.g. laparoscopy
• Telemedecine Telesurgery
• Rehabilitation
• - Physical Therapy
• - Behavioral Therapy e.g. fear of heights

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Teleoperation for Hazardous Operations

• Toxic environments, radioactivity e.g. disposal
  of toxic waste
• Space operations
• Teleoperation of heavy machinery e.g.
  excavators, crane, dump trucks
• Firefighting Security
• Military operations
• Deep ocean environments

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Training

• Simulators e.g. flight simulators, driving
  simulators, etc.
• Scenario training military, police,
  firefighting, etc.

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Education

• Virtual field trips visiting simulations of
  ancient India or Greece the Paleozoic era the
  inner ear etc.
• Remotely experiencing phenomena such as the
  eruption of an underwater volcano
• Experimenting with simulations constructed by
  experts e.g. NICE (Appendix A)
• Working with other students, possibly in a
  different culture

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Information Visualization

• Scientific visualization e.g. fluid dynamics,
  ice flows, etc.
• Molecular modeling
• Financial data
• Crumbs (Appendix B) visualizing, exploring
  measuring features from volumetric data sets

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Entertainment

• Immersive Attractions e.g. Kalamazoo AirZoo 4D
  Cinema (Virtalis)
• Gaming

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Rating VR Applications

• Fred Brooks IEEE CGA Dec 1999
• Demonstration
• Pilot Production - has real users but remains in
  the developers hands, under test
• Production - has real users doing real work, with
  the system in the users hands.

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Suggested Topics

• Sense of Presence
• Mystery of the Great Pyramid
• Scientific Visualization
• Military Applications
• Navigation Interaction
• VSL writing BBs
• shaders
• inverse kinematics
• Donut tutorial
• Musical instrument digital interface

• AI in VR - Ajay
• PT in VR - Paul
• VR in Medecine - Cyril
• 3D Sound in VR - Kris
• Augmented Reality Dave
• Training
• Education
• VR the Arts
• Second Life
• Haptics
• Virtual Product Development