Applications of Virtual Reality

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Applications ofVirtual Reality

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• 98100371 Noor Adinah Omar98100424 Kartika Murni
  binti Abdul Majid 98100444 Norain Dalilah binti
  Mohd Rashid98100453 Sham Azura Ahmad 98100466
  Adibah binti Mohd Najib 98100745 Endang Ellyana
  Iskandar

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VR for Entertainment
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Mohd Najib
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VR for Entertainment

• Virtual Theme Park
• "Tamago Teikoku", located at Namco Wonder Egg,
  Tokyo
• The Pleasure Island is located at Orlando,
  Florida
• DisneyQuest in Orlando, Florida

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VR for Entertainment

• LBE (Location Based Entertainment)
• Virtual World Entertainment (VWE), Las Vegas
• uses VR POD 2.5 and 3.0 models
• software used at VWE is BattleMech
• VR Café / Bar
• CyberMind's Virtua Cafe, Miami Beach

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VR for Entertainment

• VR Bar / Restaurant / Club
• MARS Restaurant and Club, Vancouver
• VR Internet Café
• Cybersmith, Cambridge
• Virtual Museum
• The Virtual Brewery, located in Tokyo
• The virtual tour of Sapporo history and the art
  of beer brewing

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VR for Entertainment

• VR Retail Shop
• Jurassic Park store
• Sports Simulation
• MagBall
• Cyber Pong
• Virtual Dart
• Black Serve
• Virtual Tennis
• Virtual Hoops

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VR for Entertainment

• Flying Simulation
• Bandit Cockpit
• The Flight Simulation
• Game Arcade
• Trocadero Center, London
• Project Dragoon
• Shoot-em-up game
• Mercury

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VR for Military
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Adinah Omar
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Introduction

• One of the first areas where virtual reality
  found practical application is in military
  training and operations.
• Three views of military applications of virtual
  reality are
• i) as a simulation of reality
• ii) as an extension of human senses through
  telepresence
• iii) as an information enhancer through
  augmented reality.

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As military simulations

• Flight trainers
• - looked like sawed-off coffins mounted on a
  pedestal, used to teach instrument flying
• - Virtual environment produced
• the darkness inside the trainer cockpit,
  realistic readings on the instrument panel, and
  the motion of the trainer on the pedestal
  combined to produce a sensation similar to
  actually flying on instruments at night

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• Simulator designers needed a way to produce a
  view of the outside world
• When television and video cameras became
  available in 1950s, simulator designers used the
  video camera as if it were flying over a scale
  model of the terrain around an airport.
• Resulting image sent to a television monitor
  placed in front of the pilot in the simulator
• The pilot could control the movement of the
  camera over the terrain board by moving the
  control stick and throttle.
• As a result the pilot could receive visual
  feedback both inside and outside the cockpit.

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• Newest innovation Project called SIMNET to
  electronically connect two or more simulators to
  produce a distributed simulation environment.
• SIMNET can be used not only for training, but
  also to develop and test new combat strategy and
  tactics.

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Telepresence for Military Missions

• Two rather obvious reasons why the military
  explore and utilize telepresence in their
  operations
• 1) reduce exposure to hazards
• 2) to increase stealth

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• Smart weapons and remotely- piloted vehicles
  (RPVs) were developed because
• - many aspects of combat operations are very
  hazardous
• - more risky if the combatant seeks to improve
  his performance
• Some smart weapons are autonomous, others are
  remotely controlled after they are launched

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• Advantages
• - allows the shooter and weapon controller to
  launch the weapon and immediately seek cover
• - being in a safer place
• - the RPV can be made smaller than a vehicle
  that would carry a man, thus making it more
  difficult for the enemy to detect

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Military Information Enhancement

• Objective to supply the pilot or tank commander
  with as much of the necessary information
• The Air Force developed the head-up display (HUD)
  - optically combines critical information
  (altitude, airspeed, heading) with an
  unobstructed view through the forward windscreen
  of a fighter aircraft.

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• With the HUD, the pilot never has to look down at
  his instruments.
• This combination of real and virtual views of the
  outside world can be extended to nighttime
  operations.
• Using an infrared camera mounted in the nose of
  the aircraft, an enhanced view of the terrain
  ahead of the aircraft can be projected on the
  HUD.
• Effect The pilot can have a 'daylight' window
  through which he has both a real and an enhanced
  view of the nighttime terrain and sky.

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VR for Education
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98100444 Norain Dalilah binti Mohd Rashid
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VR for Education

• using virtual reality (VR) to enhance the
  learning process have become the recent idea in
  education
• VR environment is implemented for teaching aid
  such as in virtual classroom, virtual library and
  virtual lab.

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Virtual Classroom

• typical virtual classroom usually is a password
  protected, web-based virtual classroom system
• Can use a virtual classroom for
• Lectures
• Handouts/notices
• internet resources

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Virtual Classroom

• -Self test
• -Chat
• -Discussion
• -Grades

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Virtual Library

• a large repository of data that contains
  information or links to other websites that will
  lead to certain information
• VR is implemented so that user can see the actual
  thing while browsing
• Eg. Archaeology hosted by the Archaeological
  Research Institute at Arizona State University

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Virtual Library

• Accessing it is like going to a museum
• can access archeological information from the
  region all over the world
• can choose to view our subject areas such as
  archeometry, botanical, education materials etc
  schools, journals, and news
• can view the materials in six other different
  languages that are Catalan, Dutch, French,
  German, Italian and Spanish

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Virtual Lab

• offer students "virtual laboratories" via the WWW
  or CD-ROM
• The objective is to introduce students to
  experimentation, problem solving, data gathering,
  and scientific interpretation early in their
  careers
• Eg. Buffalo's Virtual Reality Laboratory

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Virtual Lab

• use of VR technology in areas such as surgery,
  remote robotic control, volcanic simulation and
  factory design
• The tools that are used include head-mounted
  displays, magnetic proximity sensors,
  instrumented gloves, driving simulators, SGI
  Onyx2 and Indigo computers