In this page we made available some interesting links in the field of Virtual Reality. The main purpose is to introduce begineers to the field.

Please fell free to send your comments to: mcabral@lsi.usp.br.

Last modification: 17/July/2000

Index

• Concepts
• Conferences
• Groups
• Hardware 
• Projects
• Software

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Concepts

• What is VR?
• Basic Concepts by Liliane Machado An introduction to Virtual Reality. Good start. (in portuguese)
• What Is Virtual Reality? 
• What Is Virtual Reality? A Web-Based Introduction 
• Stereoscopic View
• Stereoscopic Vision What is Stereo Vision?
• Haptics
• What is 3D Touch? by Sensable Technologies
• Principles of Haptic Rendering for Virtual Environments (tutorial)
• Integration of force feedback into virtual reality based training systems for simulating minimally invasive procedures (tutorial)
• FAQ's
• Faq's
• More Faq's

Conferences
 

• SIGGRAPH
• IEEE Virtual Reality 2000 
• Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 
• SIBGRAPI - Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing
• WRV - Brazilian Workshop on Virtual Reality 
• European Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality and Associated Technologies (ECDVRAT) 

Groups
 

• Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 
• Universidade Federal de São Carlos 
• Virtual Reality in Medicine and Biology Group
• Applied Technologies Lab

 

Hardware

• 5th Dimension Technologies (gloves,HMD)
• Ascension Technology Corporation (tracking)
• ASL (eye tracking) 
• Fakespace (3DView, tracking, pinchglove, ImmersaDesk, CAVE)
• Haptic Technologies Inc. (haptic feedback)
• Intersense (HMD, tracking)
• iReality (HMD)
• ISCAN (eye tracking) 
• Kaiser Electro-Optics (HMD) 
• Liquid Image (HMD) 
• Motion Analysis (motion capture) 
• n-Vision (HMD) 
• Polhemus (motion capture)
• Sensable Technologies (haptic feedback)
• SensoMotoric Instruments (eye tracking) 
• SiliconGraphic (miscellaneous)
• Spacetec IMC Corporations (3D motion control) 
• StereoGraphics (3D View) 
• Vicon (motion capture) 
• Virtual Research Systems (HMD, displays)
• Virtual Technologies (touch glove)

• Hints
• Stereoscopic 3D Hardware 
• Stereoscopic 3D Software

Projects 

• Deformation and Force-Feedback in Virtual Reality 
• Surgery Simulator Evaluations Underway 
• Surgical Simulation and Training 
• Virtual Arthroscopic Knee Surgery Simulator 
• Visible Human Project 
• Surgical Simulation
• A Virtual Reality Workstation for Dental Endodontic Training
• Eye Surgery Simulation
• Arthroscopic Knee Surgery
• A Haptic Surgical Suturing Simulator

Software

• CAVErnus CAVE research network users society 
• Avango VR Toolkits 
• VR Juggler Virtual Platform for VR application development. 

OpenSource software.
• Virtual Reality Modelling Language Repository 
• Amazing VRML Application
• VTK - Visualization Toolkit
• World Toolkit