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Virtual Reality
Ryan Taylor
Virtual Reality
What is Virtual Reality?
A Three Dimension Computer Animated world which can be interacted with by a human.
Also referred to as Virtual Environments due to poor reception to the term Virtual Reality.
Try to create a seamless interface between human interaction and world.
History
In the 1950’s Morton
Heilig
(a cinematographer) wanted something which the audience could experience with all of their senses.
He created a “
Sensorama
” which included a head mounted television display to view images in 3-D. Along with the head mounted television, he included fans, odor emitters, stereo speakers and a moving chair.
History
Engineers at
Philco
Corporation developed the first Head Mounted Display (HMD) in 1961 called
Headsight
.
It included a video screen and a tracking system which they linked to a camera. They intended
Headsight
’s
use for dangerous situations.
Bell Laboratories used this technology for Helicopter pilots to fly safely at night.
History
In 1965 Ivan Sutherland had the idea for the “Ultimate Display” which would look at a computer generated world and appear as real as without the display.
Concept included
Virtual world seen by HMD with 3-D sound and stimuli.
Computer that maintains the world in real time.
Ability for users to interact with the world in a realistic way.
Sutherland got grants from NASA, the CIA, and other big organizations but early applications were mainly vehicle simulations.
History
In 1984 Michael McGreevy started experimenting with virtual reality for an advanced human-computer interface(HCI).
This leads to
Jaron
Lanier coining the term virtual reality in 1987 and the media in the 1990s latching onto the term.
The hype built up by the media was grossly overstated and expectations of virtual reality faded from the public.
Current examples
While virtual reality is meant to be fully immersive, a couple of gaming related items are semi-capable of being called virtual reality.
Virtual Boy (1995)
Wii
(2006)
Kinect
for Xbox 360 (2010)
Move for PS3 (2010)
These systems while not being full virtual reality are trying to warm consumers on the idea of virtual reality again.
Head Mounted Displays (HMDs)
As previously mentioned, head mounted displays were originally created 1961.
It initially had to be suspended because the hardware for it was too heavy to be only held by a user.
Head Mounted Displays (HMDs)
HMDs create the sense of 3-D by having two separate monitors, one for each eye.
These monitors started as CRT monitors but eventually gave way to LCD as LCD became more advanced.
HMDs also hold a tracking mechanism to track head position and direction.
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Head Mounted Displays (HMDs)
The most popular current HMD is the Oculus Rift.
Photo credit: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Oculus+Rift+Teardown/13682/1?singlePage
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Head Mounted Displays (HMDs)
Besides the HMD, users also need to use an input device of some kind.
This includes:
Joysticks
Controller wands
Data gloves
Voice recognition
photo credit: http://www.vrealities.com/products/data- gloves/
shapehand
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Head Mounted Displays (HMDs)
A couple drawbacks to HMDs:
Several users have noticed getting motion sickness during and after use.
Hardware isn’t cheap.
Not much software/games currently in production to support HMDs.
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Head Mounted Displays (HMDs)
Implementation of HMDs
Integrate motion tracking with a characters point of view
This enables the motion tracking in the HMD to change the characters view direction.
Implement stereoscopic 3D rending and optical distortion
This allows the video to look like it is 3D and “fools” your brain into thinking that the world being viewed is the real world.
This also allows the devices to have the correct left/right eye video placement
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Head Mounted Displays (HMDs)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bytIGCeGxo
(contains some nudity)
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Cave Automatic Virtual Environments (CAVEs)
CAVEs are a more recent, more immersive type of virtual reality in which a several walls and sometimes the floor are projected with images which can be viewed in 3-D by the use of special glasses.
The CAVE system allows only one user to interface with it but multiple people can have the glasses and share in the experience at the same time.
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Cave Automatic Virtual Environments (CAVEs)
CAVEs aren’t as commercially used as HMDs as they need a good sized room to fit the user area and projectors behind each wall.
Photo credit: http://www.christiedigital.com/en-us/3D/visual-solutions/new-projectors/Pages/Christie-Fosters-Collaboration-and-Innovation-at-Communitech-Hub.aspx
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Cave Automatic Virtual Environments (CAVEs)
Implementation of CAVEs
CAVE systems are programmed using
openGL
Setting the zero point (the point in 3D space
where the given x, y, and z are all zero) to
above the floor in the y direction and in the
center of the floor makes it so that the
image will float above the floor where the
users will be able to walk around it.
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Cave Automatic Virtual Environments (CAVEs)
A sample move using
openGl
OpenGl
uses the modification of matrices to modify objects in three dimensional space.
The pushed matrix is the object you want to modify.
When you pop the matrix all modifications will be applied.
glPushMatrix
();
glRotatef
(angle, 0, 0, 1);
glTranslatef
(x, y, 0);
glColor3f (0, 0.2, 1);
glPopMatrix
();
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Practical uses
There are currently virtual reality systems which are used for educational purposes.
These give people experience or training in a field without the dangers that may come with them.
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Practical Uses
Uses include medical training for invasive surgeries. This gives med students “hands-on” training without ever having to actually enter a person.
Military/police training is another for which squads can train for certain situations without the danger of getting hit by real ammunition.
Other practical uses are still flowing in, such as arts (visiting an art museum from your living room) and much more.
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Questions?