Bradley Tanner, MD2017 Serious Play ConferenceHylton Performing Arts Center

Manassas, VA

July 19, 2018

HealthImpact.studio101 Market Street, Suite A

Chapel Hill, NChttp://healthimpact.studio

3D Virtual Reality Using Oculus To Teach Complicated 3D Structures

Goal and Disclosure

✔ Goal: Gain an understanding of the strengths and limitations of VR technology as it applied to the challenge of teaching students about complicated 3D structures

✔ Disclosure: President, Clinical Tools Inc. HealthImpact.studio is the game development division of Clinical Tools.

The Question To Ask

✔ Have used Oculus 3D immersive headsets or headsets from Vive?

✔ Ask this question✔ Don’t accept vague answers.✔ Watching is not doing. In this case “see

one” is meaningless.

How Different is Immersive VR?

The VR Hardware Options - Cardboard

The VR Hardware Options - Samsung VR

The VR Hardware Options - Google's Pixel Phone and Daydream

The VR Hardware Options - PlayStation VR

✔ More Cables✔ You can’t move✔ Limited Hand Controllers

The VR Hardware Options – Oculus

The VR Hardware Options – Cables!

The VR Hardware Options – HTC Vive

Future VR Hardware Options – Mixed Reality

Building a VR Solution for a Broad Audience

✔ Lessons from creating a three-dimensional experience for the user for educational purposes

✔ The challenge of learning complicated 3D structures in the brain

✔ Building an Internal Memory Map

Lesson #1 – Building 3D Structures

✔ Users without experience in VR

✔ Users unfamiliar with how Oculus works

✔ Lack of experience manipulating controllers – every driving a rental car where all the controls were different?

Lesson #2 – Building 3D Structures

✔ User Expectations

✔ Need Sufficient Complexity

Lesson #3 – Building 3D Structures

✔ Is it fun?✔ A VR game is

not a task to be mastered

✔ Difficult? Yes✔ Dull? No

Imaging a 3D World

✔ Building an internal memory map of a 3D object or space

✔ Memories of past houses.✔ When you need to build

one✔ Buying or renting a new

house

Using 2D to Create 3D

✔ Does 2D work?

✔ Real WorldBuilding

✔ What if you could view houses in VR?

The Potential of VR to Learn 3D Structures

✔ Perhaps the Brain isn’t the place to start.✔ Fantastic Voyage?

Better than Reality

✔ Presenting Data✔ Hiding and Showing

Structures✔ Showing and Hiding Labels✔ Coloring✔ Showing Motion

Building a VR Future

✔ Learn the New VR Technology

✔ Teach the New VR Technology

✔ Explain it’s value✔ Dream up a solution✔ Make it good enough

to show what the technology is capable of

✔ Make sure it is fun!