MRI: Acquisition of a Virtual Reality Testbed for Research and Teaching in Visualization, Simulation, and Edutainment

MRI：获取虚拟现实测试平台，用于可视化、模拟和寓教于乐的研究和教学

• 批准号: 0619340
• 负责人: Jim Chen
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: George Mason University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-08-15 至 2008-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0619340&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Acquisition; Virtual; Reality; Testbed

Project Proposed:This project, acquiring virtual reality infrastructure, aims at supporting research in computer graphics, visualization, and virtual reality. Spanning the areas of artificial intelligence, computer game development for computer science education, anatomy visualization, surgical simulation, and statistical data visualization, the infrastructure would service Computer Games for Learning (Edutainment), Virtual Surgery Simulation, and Scientific Data Visualization. The facility might enable experiments in the use of immersive networked virtual environments for distance education. On surgery simulation the current projects expand into an immersive environment with direct user manipulation of virtual objects through haptic devices, supplying a better sense of reality for both patients and surgeons. Providing a different perspective of data visualization, manipulation, and mining, the infrastructure would contribute to a new initiative on virtual environment construction through video images.

项目建议：该项目，收购虚拟现实基础设施，旨在支持计算机图形学，可视化和虚拟现实的研究。该基础设施涵盖人工智能、计算机科学教育的计算机游戏开发、解剖可视化、手术模拟和统计数据可视化等领域，将为计算机游戏学习（寓教于乐）、虚拟手术模拟和科学数据可视化提供服务。该设施可能使实验在使用沉浸式网络虚拟环境的远程教育。在手术模拟方面，目前的项目扩展到沉浸式环境，通过触觉设备直接操作虚拟对象，为患者和外科医生提供更好的现实感。该基础设施提供了数据可视化、操作和挖掘的不同视角，将有助于通过视频图像构建虚拟环境的新举措。