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Source: UIC CAVE virtual environment |
In last week's ASAP issue of the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, a team of researchers from Lund University (Sweden) and AstraZeneca teamed up to deliver a relatively inexpensive ($500) virtual reality setup based on the Oculus Rift, a VR headset, paired with the Microsoft Kinect, a motion sensor popularly used with the Xbox. The paper prescribes a collage of open-source software - including the video game engine Unity and the chemistry informatics package Open Babel - that the Swedish researchers utilize to model metal complexes and a CB1 receptor, complete with undulating ribbons of secondary structure.
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Source: Lund University / AZ |
So, what's the big advance here? It's all in the control: the Kinect sensor watches the user's hands, allowing navigation of the molecular model using intuitive hand gestures. This way, the chemist doesn't have to intrude on the immersive VR with keyboards, joysticks, or mouse clicks.
Hoping to "...stimulate further development in a collaborative fashion," the authors have released the source code to the public** through the open-source code repository GitHub. If you're among the first to try it out, drop me a line!
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* Cave Automatic Virtual Environment. It wouldn't be software without a good recursive acronym...
**VR headset and Kinect sensor not included : )
Thanks a lot for the write-up. As author of the paper I was the first user....and might be somewhat biased, but it's very, very cool : )
ReplyDeleteGot another student (starting on Monday next week) who will continue the development of Molecular Rift (would like to give voice recognition another shot for example). If you (or anyone else of course!) wants something implemented please feel free to drop me a line! Hope you try it!
Minority Report, eh? As usual, it's important not to get seduced by the immersion and ask what it's actually saying; doubly so in this case.
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Here's a brief up-date. Hope that's okay? The Oculus Rift (and HTC Vive) is great, but still not accessible for everyone. You need a pricey computer, HMD goggles, and a lot cables. To make things simpler, and an effort to make chemistry the coolest school subject, we started a company, EduChem VR, developing virtual reality smartphone apps for learning Chemistry. There are three freemium apps available from our homepage: http://www.educhem-vr.com so far, designed for Google Cardboards, so anyone anywhere could try them. Later this week we'll release for the segment in between Cardboards and Oculus/HTCVive: Samsung Gear VR. Almost as high performance as Oculus, and almost as accessible as Cardboard. The future for VR I think. Would love to get some feedback.
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