Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality applications survey
From the 3DUI list:
If you are willing to fill out a short survey (5 minutes or less) about the current state of VR and AR applications, please read on.
In 1994 and again in 1999, Fred Brooks conducted a survey of the state of the art in VR. In particular, he focused on finding places where VR technology was actually being used for real, production work (not demos or VR research).
In 1994, he was unable to find any production applications of VR except simulators (e.g. flight simulators), and entertainment. He concluded that VR “almost works”.
In 1999, he found 5 additional categories of production VR applications. These categories were vehicle (e.g. automobile) design, architectural design and spatial arrangement, training (NASA), psychiatric treatment, and probe microscopy. He concluded that VR “barely works”. He also said that interacting (manipulation, travel, wayfinding) was one of the crucial challenges that would affect the success and speed of adoption of VR.
I am interested in finding evidence for the current state of production applications of VR or AR, and for this I need your help. If you are aware of one or more real-world production applications (used regularly for the results it produces) of VR/AR, please fill out a short survey (5 minutes or less). Fill out one survey for each application you’re aware of. Please complete the survey by August 10.
The survey can be found at:
https://survey.vt.edu/survey/entry.jsp?id=1122996674235
By:
Doug Bowman
Assistant Professor
Computer Science
http://people.cs.vt.edu/~bowman/
Virginia Tech
http://www.3dui.org