Open Source Virtual Reality Software

AviTab is a plugin for the X-Plane flight simulator. It displays a tablet-like computer with a few apps in the cockpit. It is mainly used for flying in virtual reality. When flying in a simulator, one often needs to look up details in PDF charts, plane manuals, checklists or other documents. Using a PDF reader breaks the immersion because the virtual aviator either has to take off of their HMD or use other tools that can move windows into VR. AviTab tries to solve this problem by offering a PDF reader inside a native plugin for X-Plane. Using a plugin also opens possibilities for more apps inside the tablet, for example, to display information about the plane status or aid in navigation. When hovering over the edges of the tablet from a short distance, X-Plane will display green bars around the tablet. The upper bar can be used to grab the window and move it around inside the cockpit.

3d plotting for Python in the Jupyter notebook based on IPython widgets using WebGL. Create quiver plots (like scatter, but with an arrow pointing in a particular direction). Render in the Jupyter notebook, or create a standalone html page (or snippet to embed in your page). Render in stereo, for virtual reality with Google Cardboard. Animate in d3 style, for instance, if the x coordinates or color of a scatter plots changes. Animations / sequences, all scatter/quiver plot properties can be a list of arrays, which can represent time snapshots.

CyberMed is a framework for the development of medical simulations based on virtual reality. It includes support to visualization, haptics, deformation, stereoscopy, collision detection, user assessment, texturing, tracking and collaboration.

Flatland is the virtual environment developed to perform these investigations. Using Flatland as the base environment scientists can visualize and explore both their data and the computations that manipulate that data. Imagine, if you will, a scientist able to examine the real-time results of a simulation and, when he notices an anomally he would like to investigate, he turns to the program running the simulation and examines the code, possibly changing it on the fly. This is the dream of Flatland.

SimVRML is a system for providing a robust Virtual Reality system for the Macintosh. The focus of SimVRML is simulation and scientific computing based upon the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML). SimVRML provides VR viewing for Mactel and G5 Macs