An Endoscope Interface for Immersive Virtual Reality

John, Nigel W.; Day, Thomas W.; Wardle, Terrence

An Endoscope Interface for Immersive Virtual Reality

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Date

2020

Authors

John, Nigel W.
Day, Thomas W.
Wardle, Terrence

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

This is a work in progress paper that describes a novel endoscope interface designed for use in an immersive virtual reality surgical simulator. We use an affordable off the shelf head mounted display to recreate the operating theatre environment. A hand held controller has been adapted so that it feels like the trainee is holding an endoscope controller with the same functionality. The simulator allows the endoscope shaft to be inserted into a virtual patient and pushed forward to a target position. The paper describes how we have built this surgical simulator with the intention of carrying out a full clinical study in the near future.

        @inproceedings{10.2312:vcbm.20201167
,
booktitle = {Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine
},
editor = {Kozlíková, Barbora and Krone, Michael and Smit, Noeska and Nieselt, Kay and Raidou, Renata Georgia
},
title = {{An Endoscope Interface for Immersive Virtual Reality
}},
author = {John, Nigel W. and 
Day, Thomas W. and 
Wardle, Terrence
},
year = {2020
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {2070-5786
},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-109-0
},
DOI = {10.2312/vcbm.20201167
}
}