Virtual Reality (VR) technology brings you efficient and cost-effective psychophysics-based solutions. Using head-mounted VR devices and virtual hand controllers, plant equipment is simulated inside industrial classrooms to train employees. Fusion VR is the prominent virtual reality company in India delivering effective virtual reality (VR) solutions to address your unique challenges.
Virtual Reality or VR is a digitally created 3D environment which is designed to deliver a simulated immersive experience. Users will be able to navigate, perform actions and tasks in this virtual environment.
Virtual Reality technology is used today by enterprises in many different ways. The applications are diverse and vary across several industries in both technical and non-technical applications.
VR helps design teams to collaborate more effectively with experts and stakeholders in real time. This comprehensively reduces the time and effort need to complete all necessary reviews with engineers across various disciplines and geographies.
VR enables enterprises to improve workforce performance and productivity resulting in reduced downtime and better return on investment.
VR training is more effective than conventional training approaches and helps create a more confident workforce. VR provides simulation solutions that can be used to train personnel in operations, maintenance, safety, emergency response, customer service etc.
Virtual Reality Training Simulators deliver immersive, scenario-based, experiential learning. This enables engineers and technicians to learn critical skills, test and evaluate themselves to handle high-risk equipment and tools without even entering the Process Plant or Shop Floor but inside an immersive, safe and zero-consequence virtual environment.
VR education makes learning fun. Well-designed games motivate and imbue players with clear goals, a sense of reward and fulfilment, encouraging them to persist until those goals are achieved. Applying motivational power to non-game contexts is Gamification which makes learning interesting and easier than ever.
VR transforms your employees into competent and confident individuals inheriting decades of knowledge and experience in a short duration thereby saving years of training time. PWC’s latest study indicates that VR training is 4X faster and 4X more focused than typical Class-Room Training. It’s also 3.75 times more emotionally connected with a 40% improvement in confidence.
Virtual Reality technology holds the promise to a smart future in manufacturing.
Fusion VR is India’s leading VR solutions provider with the required capabilities to fulfil that promise
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Let’s begin with a simple question. Why do we go to museums?
We all visit museums with our children and by ourselves. We are enthralled by what we see and get a peek into what the past was like, how our ancestors were, what they wore, did and achieved. It never ceases to amaze us the masterpieces they created without the aid of science and technology.
The answer to the main question lies in our curiosity to know and experience what the past was like. We want to relive the past and travel back in time if that is really possible.
The bad news is that you really cannot physically travel to the past, but the good news is that you can do it with virtual reality. Yes, the magic of virtual reality enables us to experience what once existed. We can recreate a 3D digital environment and immerse you completely so that you can obtain the experience of already being there, fully engaged with all your senses and move and see and do things in all directions.
You can travel back in time to see how the Cholas conducted naval expeditions across the high seas and conquered distant lands in South East Asia or witness the heroism of Chandragupta Maurya and his battles. There is no limitation on what can be recreated and experienced in VR, which is quite truly the last frontier in museum experiences.
Virtual tours using VR are one of the most popular uses of VR in museums. Visitors don a VR headset, and the application gets launched. You are led to witness museum exhibits in close proximity, go around them and even rotate them to see them from all sides, creating a very personalised experience that is impossible in real life. Such tours are presented in breathtaking clarity and allow visitors to take as much time as they can afford to explore museum artefacts.
The visitor's experience here is really close to the experience of viewing that in person. This is very useful when certain artefacts are restricted to prevent further degradation from human contact, bacteria and excessive moisture. For example, access to Leonardo Da Vinci’s, The Last Supper, is restricted to a small number of visitors, and the painting is preserved in a controlled environment. These VR tours are as personalised as it gets in a digital museum.
VR helps to recreate digital environments lost in the passage of time using simulation technologies. How about going back to the time when the dinosaurs roamed the earth? What would be the experience of walking amongst those wonderful creatures?
This is something that can be enjoyed with VR, which no other medium can deliver. A VR museum experience is unique and quite often leaves an indelible impression.
VR exhibits can be created to help visitors virtually participate in events, and become part of the crowd when leaders deliver those famous speeches…..A tryst with destiny……I have a dream…..Ask not what your country can do for you…and much more. Gallop along with warriors, ride the high seas, and scale the towering peaks, all from the safety and comfort of your living room.
Museums such as the Louvre, The National Museum of Finland, The Smithsonian etc., are using VR exhibits to engage and enthral visitors to their museums and VR experience centres. Closer home, we have the Amma museum, Chennai and the RKM Museums across India that have commissioned creative VR exhibits. Fusion VR is a pioneer in the use of VR in museums.
A museum experience is always memorable in 3D interactive museums. More and more museums across the country need to adopt VR and other immersive technologies in museums to engage visitors and help make a museum visit an unforgettable experience.
Virtual Reality, commonly referred as VR is a computer-generated or filmed in 360-degree video that immerses the user in the believable multi-sensory Stereoscopic-3D space, primarily through vision, hearing and interactions in real-time.
VR is experienced through a specially designed goggle known as Head Mounted Display (VR-HMD) with user interactions enabled through hand-controllers and hand/fingers tracking computer vision cameras. The headset or goggle when worn, completely covers the eyes, disconnects the user from his/her existing physical environment, and instantly teleports to the immersive synthetic world where one’s First-Personal Experiences are simulated.
VR technology which is popularly used in the entertainment and gaming industry has been getting mainstream adoption in engineering, education, training and design projects. VR solutions are being implemented in the manufacturing, healthcare, construction, mining, energy, oil & gas, utilities, retail & consumer sectors in the recent years. PwC’s research shows that VR along with its sibling AR is already contributed over $46 billion to global GDP (in 2019) and is expected to reach $1.5 trillion by 2030.
Virtual Reality technology relies primarily on the use of a stereoscopic visual device called VR glasses and the use of a digitally created or filmed 360-degree 3D environment. The experience derived can be simply visual, exploratory or interactive. In essence, this technology understands how our brain sees things and using that to create a highly realistic but virtual experience.
The major components of a VR Head Mounted Device are primarily electronic. The remaining components are the housing and the optics. Below are the parts and functions of a PC powered VR device.
A Display Panel that is positioned right behind the pair of lenses. The view on this LCD panel is split between the right and left eyes to provide the binocular vision which is necessary for the 3D-Stereoscopic experience that actually mimics the way we see things around us in real life.
A Logic Board or the Motherboard which helps to keep all components connected and functional.
The Inertial Measurement Unit(IMU) sensors help to track user’s head rotation/orientation with Three-Degrees of Freedom; XYZ axes (3DoF). The IMU consists of gyroscopes which measure rotation and rotational rate, accelerometers which measures velocity and acceleration and magneto meters for establishing direction. In combination, the IMUs enable the VR environment to track the user orientation to seamlessly orient the VR environment to maximize the immersive experience.
6 DoF VR-Headsets are equipped with computer vision sensors (RGB cameras, B&W cameras, IR Depth cameras etc.) to sense the XYZ axes positional movements of the user along with XYZ axes orientation. The combination of multiple cameras and IMU sensors along Visual-Inertial-SLAM technology (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) creates the 3D-Spatial map of the physical environment and also enables real-time tracking of the user movement relative to the 3D space. Some VR devices also use external tracking cameras to enable 6DoF tracking.
Proximity Sensor is usually integrated at the forehead area of the device to put the device in sleep mode when it is not in use (Power saving function).
Hand Controllers with inbuilt IR, IMU and Optical sensors that enable user interactions inside the VR space. Latest devices also support hand/fingers tracking using computer vision cameras.
There are also Inbuilt Speakers/Headphone jack for the 3D Spatial Audio experience and Microphone for taking voice inputs.
Apart from the above, a Standalone VR device will also have inbuilt Memory for storing the VR content, CPU/GPU Processing units and Battery.
Notably VR and AR are very different from the standpoint of immersion. While VR is completely immersive with 360-degree field-of-view visuals, the visual rendering of AR is contained within the small rectangular display such as mobile phone screen which has a very limited immersion.
Virtual Reality (VR) requires the use of head-mounted devices which covers the user’s eyes and disconnects them from the surrounding environment. As a result, the user gets teleported to an entirely new, three-dimensional virtual environment with stereoscopy visuals. The user becomes the part of the digital space, obtains a First-Personal experience through immersive visuals and 3D spatial auditory that is similar to being in the real world. The user is also able to navigate and perform actions in this VR environment in a more natural way using various hand & fingers tracking techniques.
In summary, VR is useful for creating entirely new environments or recreating digital twins of existing spaces, objects and scenarios that are rarely occurring, logistically difficult, expensive or potentially dangerous and teleporting the user inside that synthetic world. VR however can be used in an enclosed space with limited movement. This is because the user is unable to see the real surrounding environment and unrestricted movement could cause harm from surrounding structures and objects. So, VR is mainly used in room environments for various trainings and simulation purposes.
Augmented Reality (AR) on the other hand is not so immersive and is experienced with the use of handheld devices such as a smartphone, tablet or AR wearables which establishes the connection between the real and digital world by overlaying digital content on top of the physical spaces. The augmented digital content could be contextual information, data or instructions depending on the kind of AR experience that is desired. Since the user’s vision is unhindered, it allows them to move around without any restriction in real world. So, AR is mainly used for on the job guided assistance and remote support while performing tasks at manufacturing plants.
Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality are essentially very different technologies as they deliver completely unique experiences. Therefore, the question if one is better than the other need not be taken up. However, it’s important to understand the differences between these two technologies.
Virtual Reality technology is experienced with the use of VR headset. It’s a head mounted device which encloses the user’s eyes, and completely disconnecting them from the surrounding environment. Looking through the headset, the user is fully immersed in a highly realistic 3D 360-degree virtual environment and has no idea about what is happening in the real world around. The user is able to navigate and perform actions in this virtual reality environment which is made possible with the use of hand and finger tracking systems and hand controllers. Users begin to feel that they are part of the environment even though it’s a digitally created virtual environment. This creates the opportunity to mimic actions performed in the real world or explore new actions that may not be always possible in the real world. VR usage restricts mobility as it blocks the user’s vision and must therefore be performed within a room only. Unrestricted mobility is not advised.
In summary, VR is useful for creating entirely new environments or recreating digital twins of existing spaces, objects and scenarios that are rarely occurring, logistically difficult, expensive or potentially dangerous and teleporting the user for various training and simulation use cases.
In contrast, Mixed Reality (MR) is a technology that puts the user in a Hybrid world where the user’s physical world is enriched by the augmented digital infographics, 3D objects and voices. MR is experienced by wearing a See-Through or Pass-Through MR goggle that does not cut off the user from his/her surroundings. While MR is not as immersive as VR, the head mounted device does allow the user to move around safely and experience both the real and digital worlds that are presented.
MR uses various spatial mapping (SLAM) techniques to create, understand and remember the digital version of physical environments and objects. This situational awareness intelligence enables the overlay of digital information highly contextual based on the surrounding environment and user interactions. So, MR is mainly used for on the job guided assistance and remote support while performing tasks at manufacturing plants.
VR technology is advancing tremendously and there are many next generation VR headsets and technologies now available. The Next Generation advanced VR-Headsets such as HP Reverb G2 Omnicept and the upcoming Project Cambria from Meta (formerly Facebook) have additional Biometric sensors for increased VR realism and user behavior monitoring inside VR.
These devices encompass Face Camera for user Expression-Tracking that detects the emotional state of the user, Heart Rate Sensor to track the user’s physiological changes inside VR and Eye-Tracking to monitor the user’s focus-Level and concentration during the VR Session. These Bio-Feedbacks helps to track KPIs of the users and to customize the training sessions accordingly that is not possible with the previous generation VR technologies.
Although, Meta’s Project Cambria headset looks like a VR headset at first look, it also has the Pass-through Mixed reality capability. The high-resolution color cameras and its array of sensors digitally reconstruct the physical environment with 3D depth and textures using SLAM technology which is then passed to the display of VR devices in real time.
This headset enables the user to see the real world with the spatially augmented, perspective matched digital objects that can accurately interact and collide with the physical world. Meta has targeted VR, AR and MR in a all-in-one headset which would have improved display, eye tracking, facial expression tracking and a large field of view that has been achieved through a slim and advanced lens profile.
As a leading virtual reality company in India, Fusion VR is committed to provide our clients with the latest trends and developments in immersive technologies such as VR, AR and MR.
There are significant advancements in the next generation of VR headsets considering the potential of the Metaverse. Though these next-gen VR headsets are definitely going to have Higher Resolution displays, Improved optics with better Field of View, better Graphic processing, improved ergonomics & form factors, they are going to be equipped with additional sensors which is going to create a paradigm shift in the way VR is used today.
Current VR technology stimulates our senses to achieve a believable teleportation to a simulated digital world. While users can be effectively trained for various scenarios through this cognitive learning and achieve the highest knowledge retention, what is really missing here is the measurement of the cognitive load of the user's brain. The next generation devices are also capable of sensing the user's cognitive load and giving bio-feedback on the user’s experience.
Device manufacturers like Valve, FB and HP are focusing heavily in this area. While Valve has filed patents and Meta’s Project Cambria is expected to be available by 2022, there is an early mover in the industry. HP has already released a sensational VR device called HP Reverb G2 Omnicept with all these special sensors integrated. These sensors track the effectiveness, attentiveness and concentration level of the user by the captured biometric sensory data through the integrated Eye-Tracking, Facial Expression Tracking and Heart-Beat Tracking.
Watch this space for Fusion VR’s updates on the latest trends and developments in next generation VR technology and devices.
The integrated Facial Expression sensor in the NextGen VR devices captures the facial reactions of the user while the user is experiencing the virtual world. This type of feedback provides data on the psychological and emotional state of the user. This includes aspects such as how much the user is focusing and enjoying the training session. Another advantage of facial tracking will be in creating expressive and more dynamic 3D Avatars inside the collaborative enterprise-Metaverse which also increases the level of realism and empathy among the participants.
The Integrated Heart Rate sensor in the NextGen VR devices measures the User’s Physiological state in real time. The user’s stress level while experiencing the VR environment can be monitored and recorded especially while the user is engaged in handling emergency situations and risky scenarios such as plant upsets, firefighting etc.
While tracking the entire range of head movement is common in most VR headsets, the integrated Eye Tracking sensors in the next gen devices are also capable of monitoring the focus level of the user by tracking where exactly the user is looking at inside the virtual world. This pupil tracking also enables more accurate gaze interactions inside VR.
This enables tracking the key performance indices of the trainees and increases the overall efficiency of the learning during VR training sessions such as emergency handling or firefighting scenarios or psychiatric phobia treatment sessions.
Eye-Tracking inside the Next-Gen VR devices opens up the door for a whole new rendering technique called Foveated rendering. Our eyes have a very small area called fovea which is the only part of the retina that has densely packed sensors that are capable of consuming high-resolution images. Resolution falls off rapidly beyond this point. This demonstrates the conventional rendering of pixels with even resolution across the image is a waste of system resources. Alternatively, in this foveated rendering, pixels at the center of focus are rendered at High Resolution and anything at Peripheral view is rendered with low resolution. This dramatically boosts the system performance, visual quality and frame rates by reducing the GPU load.
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