Virtual Reality and Oceanography: Overview, Applications, and Perspective
Virtual Reality and Oceanography: Overview, Applications, and Perspective
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DOI：
10.3389/fmars.2019.00644
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发表时间：
2019-10
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3.7
通讯作者：
Noah L Walcutt;B. Knörlein;Tom Sgouros;I. Cetinić;M. Omand
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作者：
Noah L Walcutt;B. Knörlein;Tom Sgouros;I. Cetinić;M. Omand
随着来自自主平台、卫星、模型，特别是不断增长的定量成像领域的海洋数据的持续、指数级增长，需要可扩展且具有成本效益的可视化工具来解释这些大量数据。随着最近消费级头戴式显示器的普及，虚拟现实（VR）的新兴领域已经在从医学到考古学的众多学科中证明了其优势。然而，这些好处在海洋科学中没有得到那么多的关注。在这里，我们总结了虚拟现实应用于这一领域的一些方法。我们强调了几个例子，在这些例子中，我们（作者）展示了VR作为海洋科学家工具的效用。对于非常适合三维可视化的海洋数据集，虚拟现实具有增强海洋科学实践的潜力。
With the ongoing, exponential increase in ocean data from autonomous platforms, satellites, models, and in particular, the growing field of quantitative imaging, there arises a need for scalable and cost-efficient visualization tools to interpret these large volumes of data. With the recent proliferation of consumer grade head-mounted displays, the emerging field of virtual reality (VR) has demonstrated its benefit in numerous disciplines, ranging from medicine to archaeology. However, these benefits have not received as much attention in the ocean sciences. Here, we summarize some of the ways that virtual reality has been applied to this field. We highlight a few examples in which we (the authors) demonstrate the utility of VR as a tool for ocean scientists. For oceanic datasets that are well-suited for three-dimensional visualization, virtual reality has the potential to enhance the practice of ocean science.