Applications

Architecture

• Walkthroughs to evaluate design decisions and/or present designs to customers

• Demonstrate how a planned construction fits into the environment in which it is intended to be built

Business

• 3D visualisation of complex financial information

• Demonstrate customisable products to customers (cars, kitchens,...)

Conferencing

• Collaborative work over the Internet

• Virtual work groups

• Virtual lectures and conferences

Training

• Civilian and military training simulators
  • Driving simulators

  • Flight simulators

  • Ship simulators

  • Tank simulators

• Train for hazardous or difficult operations

  • Nuclear plant maintenance

  • Learn to move in zero gravity

  • Practice locating and fixing faults in equipment

Education

• Visualise concepts

• Visualise the past ('Virtual Heritage')

• Conferencing and Virtual Classrooms

Medical/surgery

• Practice peforming surgery

• Perform surgery on a remote patient

Medical/rehabilitation

• Phobia therapy

• Use VR input devices and telepresence to enable handicapped people to do things that would otherwise be impossible for them to do

• Enable handicapped people to visit/see places that they would be otherwise unable to experience

• Use VR to teach new skills in a safe, controlled, environment

Design and prototyping

• Use to create rapid prototypes rather than make clay models or full-scale mock-ups

• Simulate assembly lines. For example, to evaluate the risk of interference or collision between robots, cars, and car parts

Scientific visualisation

• View complex data sets to gain greater insight and understanding of structure

• View complex molecular structures

• View geological structures

Art

• Virtual galleries and museums

• Virtual theatres

• As a new visual/sensory medium

Entertainment and leisure

• Games

• Sport simulators

Visualising Cyberspace

• 3D navigational interfaces to the Net