Virtual Reality: Developing a VR space for Academic activities

Vr-smart - a Virtual Reality System for Smart Home Environments

Virtual reality (VR) technologies and systems have the potential to play a key role in assisting disabled inhabitants of smart home environments with instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs). While immersive environments have useful applications in the fields of gaming, simulation, and manufacturing, their capabilities have been largely untapped in smart home environments. We have develo...

MAGE-VR: A Software Framework for Virtual Reality Application Development

In this paper, we describe the architecture and implementation of MAGE-VR, a modular, highperformance software framework for developing virtual reality (VR) applications. MAGE-VR excels in developing highly realistic and interactive virtual environments (VE) by wrapping the specialized functionality of mature third-party libraries into one cohesive package. MAGE-VR is flexible because it allows...

VRRV Assessment 1 Assessing Learning in VR : Towards Developing a Paradigm Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality Toolset for Material Science: NOMAD VR Tools

We describe a free-software virtual reality system which provides material scientists with a tool to more easily study simulations of chemical systems at the atomic and molecular levels, and which is compatible with the NOMAD infrastructure (an international, open repository which is developing advanced analysis techniques and contains millions of materials). The system runs on multiple virtual...

VR Juggler – An Open Source Platform for Virtual Reality Applications

This paper describes VR Juggler, an Open Source platform used to develop and run virtual reality applications. We emphasize VR Juggler’s ability to provide a uniform VR application environment and to allow extendibility to new devices without affecting existing applications. These features enable VR applications to evolve along side other technologies with minimal or no new developmental efforts.