VR has been used by professionals for the last 20 years because it saves lives, time and money. Long before the Oculus Rift, engineers have used VR to design and prototype cars, planes, boats, and more. Virtual supermarkets are created to study the impact of a store layout and product packaging. Training simulations are used by a wide variety of professionals like firefighters and surgeons. Therapists use VR to treat phobias in a controlled environment. We will go through all these applications (and many more) and see why VR is an invaluable tool for life.
11. What is VR today?
• VR is reborn?!
• VR never died!!
• Peugeot: 9M$ since 99!
• Renault: 4M$ new VR system!
• 2018: Market estimated at 5B$ (Hardware +
Software)
12. Because VR is used to improve reality!
Saving lives, time and money
13. Why Now ?
• Economy!
• Goods!
• Services!
• Experience!
• VR is the ultimate experience!
• Democratization
40. Training with VR
“Tell me, and I will forget.!
Show me and I may remember.!
Involve me, and I will understand. “!
Confucius
41. Training with VR
• Motivation!
• Easy to use!
• Practice actual gestures!
• Repeat until master!
• Record, analyse, replay!
• What you have learned in
VR transfers in real life (c) XVR
42. Training with VR
• Practice procedure!
• Mission planning!
• Rescue hostage!
• Disaster evacuation!
• Traffic accident!
• Controlled scenarios
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43. Training with VR
• Particularly useful!
• If object/environment doesn’t exist yet!
• If object/environment can’t be monopolised
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44. Training with VR
• Practice rare/dangerous/expensive situations!
• Easy accessibility!
• Duplicate training sites!
• Reduced costs!
• Save material
45. Training - Beyond Reality
• Change world scale!
• Change time scale!
• Watch action in slow or fast motion!
• Visit the past or the future
46. Training - Beyond Reality
• Simplify reality!
• Show invisible effects!
• Display tension, stresses, temperature, audio,
magnetic field, electric field, gas, IR, heat ….
47. Communication training
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• Crisis management!
• Angry customer!
• Train speaking in public!
• Don’t need to hire actors
48. Value of VR for training
• Body involved!
• More efficient!
• More accessible!
• Costs reduced!
• Risks reduced!
• Waste reduced
49. Plan
• What is VR ?!
• Applications!
• Engineering!
• Marketing!
• Training!
• Architecture!
• Scientific visualisation!
• Health!
• Conclusion
50. Architecture / Urban planning
• Replace physical mockup!
• Experience from human POV!
• Marketing!
• Communication tool!
• Engineering/prototyping!
• Clashes in cables!
• Identify usability issues!
• Wheelchair access!
• Evaluate emotions!
• …
51. Value of VR for
Architecture
• Reach decisions faster!
• Better acceptability and quality!
• Reduced costs and risks!
• Lower product design times!
• More innovations
52. Plan
• What is VR ?!
• Applications!
• Engineering!
• Marketing!
• Training!
• Architecture!
• Scientific visualisation!
• Health!
• Conclusion
53. Scientific visualisation
• Analyse big data intuitively!
• Natural interactions!
• Human brain is a pattern
matching machine!
• Visualize!
• Geology!
• Physics simulations!
• Non-realistic rendering!
• Display tension,
temperature etc.
(c) University Utah
54. Plan
• What is VR ?!
• Applications!
• Engineering!
• Marketing!
• Training!
• Architecture!
• Scientific visualisation!
• Health!
• Conclusion
66. Warning
• Sometimes 3D is better than VR!
• So why VR?!
• Why not VR?!
• Presence!
• Put human in center!
• Natural interactions / emotions / reactions
70. 1 VR app
=
1000 Movies
=
1’000’000 Pictures
=
1’000’000’000 Words
71. Is VR Dangerous ?
• Yes !!
• As any new tool!
• More powerful than radio, press, TV,
internet!
• But also very powerful for changing the
world in a positive way