Judy M. Vance
Iowa Center for Emerging Manufacturing Technology
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011-2160
Chapter in Applied Virtual Reality SIGGRAPH Course Notes
Carolina Cruz-Neira (Organizer)
Association for Computing Machinery SIGGRAPH ’97
Abstract
Virtual reality (VR) techniques offer us the ability to interact with computer images in a way never before experienced. The computer, and later computer graphics, revolutionized the way in which engineers design and manufacture products, and now virtual reality holds the potential to further revolutionize the engineering design cycle by providing engineers with a new window into the computer world. Up until recently, virtual reality was the domain of university researchers. With the appearance of commercial VR software and peripherals, companies have started building virtual reality applications to solve real engineering problems. The focus of this paper is to describe just how and where virtual reality fits into the creation and production of better products for all of us.
