Art-Related Virtual Reality Applications at the University of North Carolina atChapel Hill

摘要

Virtual Reality is a field that has attracted much interest from people of many different disciplines. The promise of virtual reality (VR) is that it offers us the ability to enter a parallel universe or virtual world in which all things are possible. This universe contains whatever we want or need it to at the moment- we can choose how it will act in order to satisfy our current need. If we are architects, this universe may consist of the building we are designing and the surrounding landscape; if we are radiologists, it may consist of a model of the current patient's anatomy, so that we can properly place a radiation beam to destroy a tumor, if we are biochemists, this universe may consist of a huge protein molecule, whose structure we come to understand by flying through it on a magic carpet and by manipulating its twistable bonds.