Surround-screen projection-based virtual reality: the design and implementation of the CAVE
SIGGRAPH '93 Proceedings of the 20th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Application of virtual reality in the interpretation of geoscience data
VRST '98 Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology
Virtual Reality for Geosciences Visualization
APCHI '98 Proceedings of the Third Asian Pacific Computer and Human Interaction
Crumbs: a virtual environment tracking tool for biological imaging
BIOMEDVIS '95 Proceedings of the 1995 Biomedical Visualization (BioMedVis '95)
Interaction techniques for navigation through and manipulation of 2D and 3D data
EGVE '02 Proceedings of the workshop on Virtual environments 2002
Immersive VR for Scientific Visualization: A Progress Report
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Enabling scientific workflows in virtual reality
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM international conference on Virtual reality continuum and its applications
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In recent years, Virtual Reality (VR) has had a growing impact on business in the oil and gas industry. In 1997, there were only two VR visualization centers in the oil and gas industry, but now there are more than 20 visualization centers using VR technology [2]. However, most VR software systems in use are customized to perform specific tasks, and, though some positive results have been reported, no systematic evaluation has been performed to quantify the benefits of using VR to interact with geoscience data. Therefore, we designed and implemented a VR application for the geosciences and then invited geoscientists and software developers to evaluate this application. The results show that VR provides a significantly enhanced visualization environment. Our results also suggest that the major challenge to the successful implementation of VR involves the improvement of VR interaction techniques.