How to apply VR to industries such as production, medical care, and training?
Tags: webdev, vr, programming, javascript
Published: 2023-03-16 08:53:39

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Virtual reality technology (VR) has important features such as perception, immersion, and interactivity. It integrates the latest high-tech development achievements such as 3D graphics, display, and simulation, to generate a digital environment that is highly similar to the real world in terms of vision, hearing, and touch. So that people in the virtual world can have an immersive feeling and experience.

Hightopo's self-developed “HT for Web” product can interact with various objects in the virtual environment by adapting to VR devices, such as grabbing, moving, and splitting. Now it has compatible with many VR devices such as HTC Vive, Oculus, Qeust2, Pico, etc.

**VR in industry**
In industrial scenarios, VR technology is combined with 3D visualization to simulate the real environment.  It generates a controllable virtual environment space that solves many disadvantages of traditional industries in design, research and development, assembly, maintenance, training, etc.

The Hightopo VR Smart Industrial scene uses a self-developed graphics engine to simulate and restore the physical equipment model in 1:1. Covering many industrial scenarios such as production process monitoring, equipment point inspection, remote fault diagnosis, and unattended operation. It supports presets to realize roaming, manual inspection, automatic inspection, and other operational requirements. Give people a strong sense of immersion, realism, and picture.

**VR Truck Production Line**
Taking the “Digital Twin of Hightopo Heavy Truck Production Line” as the background, we used the self-developed HT for Web product to truly reproduce the basic operation, operation processing, and fault analysis of the scene.
Relying on VR equipment, users can walk in a 360° direction after entering the virtual environment. It simulates a series of behaviors such as holding, putting, grabbing, and throwing in the real environment and helps users feel the real state of the product in the virtual environment. It also can help people to closely grasp the status of R&D, manufacturing, test operation, and O&M in real time.

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In the virtual assembly scene, we use 3D visualization, remote control, and other functions to strengthen compatibility with digital twin models and data. Help users improve production and quality simultaneously, increasing capacity utilization and reducing rework frequency.
Our VR products support operations such as component disassembly, inspection and maintenance, and practical training in the virtual environment. This can help operators consolidate their operating skills and understand the structure and operation principle of the car more conveniently.
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**VR Equipment Disassembly Demonstration**
In the past, when studying the use and structure of industrial equipment, people usually need to disassemble and reassemble the equipment manually. However, many mechanical devices are inherently dangerous, they will bring risks during the process of dismantling and assembling. What's more, some equipment is expensive, and repeated disassembly will reduce its service life. 
Hightopo VR visualization solutions can perfectly help us solve these problems.
First, we build digital twins of industrial equipment. Then, after entering the virtual environment, VR handles are used to grab the model to the desired position, allowing people to view it in detail from any angle. In this way, the problem of the incomplete display, caused by the actual mechanical equipment being too heavy, too expensive, and too large, is effectively solved.
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Secondly, we added a dismantling module for the device layout. This module supports users to use the VR handle to disassemble, assemble, and rotate the equipment parts, so as to know the details of the internal layout. Cooperating with the 2D panel data can also tell people the function of each component.
In addition, it also supports a transparent display of equipment so that operators can understand its internal structure and operating principles. Hightopo software can provide a unique and innovative VR flashlight perspective inspection function to help users directly view the internal structure of the device, then shorten the maintenance cycle of the device, and improve the efficiency of operation.
And one more thing, Hightopo software also supports the cross-platform operation. Both the mobile and PC can open the 3D scene and realize the conventional touchscreen operation, or drag and drop the device by mouse to disassemble and restore it.

**VR Smart Data Center**
As a brand-new product form, VR technology has successfully upgraded the "human-computer interaction" mode to the "human-computer integration" mode.
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Hightopo software converts data center visualization projects into VR scenes. The operation and maintenance personnel can use VR equipment to closely check the asset layout, airflow temperature, and energy efficiency status of the data center.

**VR Emergency Escape Drill**
For enterprises, effective emergency escape drills are very important to ensure their operation given possible dangerous accidents such as fires, collapses, stampedes, or severe weather such as typhoons, tsunamis, and mountain torrents.
Based on CAD drawings, bird's-eye views, and images/videos of the equipment, Hightopo software modeled and restored relevant scenes, buildings, and devices, and built a virtual emergency escape drill scene. After wearing VR equipment, employees can start the emergency escape process of simulating various emergencies. With the visual simulation drills, the sense of immersion, interaction, and presence is highly integrated to help people familiarize themselves with the knowledge of escape drills.

**VR Smart Healthcare**
VR smart healthcare can be used in the scenarios such as surgical training, rehabilitation plans, and clinical teaching. It can help doctors learn professional knowledge and practice professional skills intuitively, efficiently, and safely. Compared with traditional surgical teaching, medical VR technology has the advantages of high immersion, remoteness, and repeatability. It is crucial to the integrity, accuracy, and scientificity of medical information visualization content.
Hightopo software has built a 3D visualization solution for smart hospitals. This scene also supports users to simulate the patient's lesion signs in real-time by using VR technology. With 3D imaging data and VR, the real situation of the diseased area can be reproduced. In turn, it helps doctors understand the condition of the disease in an all-round, three-dimensional, and multi-perspective way, helps them formulate good surgical strategies, and enhances the accuracy of surgical positioning.
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In medical anatomy teaching, the VR virtual human body can also help medical students to practice on the virtual operating table, and efficiently assist them in understanding the structure of human tissue and the characteristics of diseases.

**VR Electricity Energy**
Due to the large scale of the power system, complex facilities, and fine division of labor, the requirements for employees in power generation, power supply, and power construction are particularly strict.
Hightopo Smart Grid Solution allows users to roam and inspect immersively in virtual reality scenes by using VR glasses, handles, and other devices. For example, you can view key information such as device configuration, operating status, meter count, etc., and use the VR handle to remotely start and stop the device.
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In order to provide a comprehensive and practical training experience, our virtual substation scene also supports the remote control of the operation panel, main switch, left ground switch, right ground switch, and other components through VR equipment, allowing users to directly see the operating principle of the device.

**Summarize**
Today, with the leapfrog development of science and technology, VR/AR/MR has been rapidly developed and applied in fields such as education and training, industrial manufacturing, military aerospace, medical care, cultural tourism exhibition halls, and emergency response. Hightopo software is committed to deeply integrating VR technology with various industries, gradually eliminating doubts and ambiguities in operation training, design planning, entertainment display, security inspection, and making forward-looking judgments to help customers reduce their time costs and break through geographical restrictions.
In addition to VR/AR visualization technology, Hightopo also provides web visualization solutions such as BIM, GIS, XR, MR, and 2D configuration/3D configuration. Our self-developed core engine "HT for Web" supports the graphical configuration of SCADA and builds low-code or zero-code IoT platforms at the PaaS and SaaS levels. Related products have been used in various fields such as smart cities, parks, buildings, factories, intelligent manufacturing, water affairs, energy, photovoltaics, wind power, electric power, new infrastructure, operation and maintenance, government affairs, transportation, medical care, finance, and scientific research.

Readers who are interested in 2D /3D visualization can click on the link below to browse other examples. HT will give you a lot of incredible things.
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