Performance is one of the most critical aspects of creating an immersive application, affecting the comfort of users and their ability to interact with the environment itself. This paper discusses the importance of including application-extensible, real-time-viewable performance monitoring capabilities in Virtual Reality (VR) development systems. It describes how an extensible performance-monit...

Prevalent area of exploitation of CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing) systems is computer aided program creating for NC production equipment. However, CAM systems do not sufficiently cover all periods of production process and due to this, the necessity to define the systems of Computer Aided Manufacturing Engineering CAME is obvious. Augmented Reality (AR) mixes virtual world with the actual wo...

This paper provides an introduction to the subject of “the treatment of phobias using virtual reality”. Virtual reality treatment will be compared to established methods of treatment and also (current) possibilities and (dis) advantages are described, as well as the virtual reality setups used.

The aircraft inspection/maintenance system, which is influenced by based operators and regulated by the FAA, consists of several interrelated human and machine components. In this process, visual inspection plays a significant role in ensuring aircraft safety. To improve the quality and reliability of aircraft inspection, training and job aiding have been identified as the two most important in...

 Virtual Reality (VR) systems allows the design of interactive and immersive environments for the simulation of a wide range of situations. These features has been exploited to build realistic applications in order to provide study and training in several areas, particularly in medicine. In this sense, the addition of techniques to assess the actions of users can provide simulations based on v...

"Virtual reality" (VR) describes an "interactive computer environment": "A computer generated an image; a display system presented the sensory information; and a tracker fed back the user's position or orientation in order to update the image. The elements combined to substitute sense data from the natural world with sense data about an imaginary world that changed in response to the user's act...

Background: Safe realistic training and unbiased quantitative assessment of technical skills are required for laparoscopy. Virtual reality (VR) simulators may be useful tools for training and assessing basic and advanced surgical skills and procedures. This study aimed to investigate the construct validity of the LapSimGyn VR simulator, and to determine the learning curves of gynecologists with...

Nowadays Virtual Reality (VR) has become a hot research topic. In China researchers have obtained a lot of achievements in various VR fields. VR is no longer limited to academic research as it used to be, it has sprung up to a new industry. This paper gives an overview of the research and development on VR in China, including the mainland of China, Hong Kong and Macao. It also gives a summary o...

Current numerical methods have slow dynamic visualisation capability, which is usually separate from the calculation phase. This paper investigates whether an analogue virtual reality (VR) model of a structure can integrate calculation and visual representation. The paper shows how the user can interact with a VR analogue model of a cantilever beam, move a concentrated load along the length of ...

Virtual reality (VR) is usually described as an artificial environment, created with methods of computer graphics on high-performance rendering machines, where users wearing headmounted displays and data-gloves, or using other interfaces, navigate and interact with the scene or each other in (near-) real time. VR has become particularly popular for all kinds of simulations, including architectu...