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

项目建议：该项目为获取虚拟现实基础设施，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、解剖学可视化、外科模拟和统计数据可视化等领域，将为学习（寓教于乐）、虚拟外科模拟和科学数据可视化的计算机游戏提供服务。该设施可能使使用沉浸式网络虚拟环境进行远程教育的实验成为可能。在手术模拟方面，目前的项目扩展到一个沉浸式环境，用户可以通过触觉设备直接操纵虚拟物体，为患者和外科医生提供更好的真实感。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。

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.