Desarrollo de Aplicaciones de Realidad Virtual y Sistemas Hápticos en Ingeniería, Medicina y Arte.

• Autores: Hugo Iván Medellín Castillo, Germánico González, Raquel Espinosa Castañeda, Eder Govea, Theodore Lim
• Localización: Ciencias de la Ingeniería y Tecnología Handbook T-V: Congreso Interdisciplinario de Cuerpos Académicos / coord. por Antonio Alberto Aguilar Moreno, María de Jesús Rodríguez Vargas, Martín Cano Contreras, 2014, ISBN 978-607-8324-26-2, págs. 77-93
• Idioma: español
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  • The technological growth in the last years have conducted to the development of virtual reality (VR) systems able immerse the user into a three-dimensional (3D) virtual environment o virtual world, where the user can interact in real time with virtual objects. This interaction is mainly based on visualizing the virtual environment and objects. However, with the recent beginning of haptic systems the interaction with the virtual world has been extended to also feel, touch and manipulate virtual objects. Virtual reality has been successfully used in the development of applications in different scientific areas ranging from basic science, social science, education and entertainment.

    The research activities regarding the virtual reality and haptic systems technologies carried out by the authors in the last years in collaboration with national and international research groups are presented in this paper. These research activities have conducted to the development of applications for the simulation and analysis in the areas of engineering, medicine and art. In the area of engineering, a system for the planning, evaluation and training of assembly and manufacturing tasks has been developed. On the other hand, in the area of medicine a surgical simulator for planning and training orthognathic surgeries has been developed. Finally, in the area of art an interactive cinema system for blind people has been also developed. The development of these applications and the results obtained from these developments are presented and discussed in this paper.