The application of immersive virtual reality technology in geoscience

doi:10.52396/JUST-2021-0073

Abstract

Abstract: In recent years, with the development of science and technology, a large amount of measurement and simulation data in the field of geoscience has emerged,posing challenges to data visualization and real-time analysis. Traditional two-dimensional visualization methods can no longer fully meet the scientific research and teaching needs of geoscience. The new generation of immersive virtual reality technology enables observers to intuitively observe and analyze the scientific data of the three-dimensional earth, and interact with the data to achieve immersive real-time analysis or remote virtual field surveys. This will help researchers in the field of geoscience to understand the three-dimensional geoscience data more quickly and accurately; promote the generation of new scientific discoveries; and help popularize the results of geoscience among the general public. At present, many scholars have carried out related explorations and achieved a series of important results. This article reviews the basic principles of immersive virtual reality technology and various specific applications in the field of geoscience in the past few decades, discusses the advantages and prospects of this technology in the field of geoscience, and the related issues that need to be resolved to further expand the application level.

Key words: immersive, virtual reality, geoscience, data visualization

CLC Number:

LUO Ting, LENG Wei. The application of immersive virtual reality technology in geoscience[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology of China, 2021, 51(6): 431-440.

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