Immersive virtual field trips

Field data & monitoring
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Nowadays, many companies encouter difficulties in planning geological field trips for time, budget, safety, footprint or inclusion issues. But field trips remain a major asset in geological studies and training. For a decade IFPEN have developped a complete workflow to digitize and interpret analog outcrop data, SmartAnalog. However the recent progresses in immersive Virtual Reality technologies unlock a new stage of realism and interactivity.

This project aims at bringing outcrops directly from the field to the office, enabling fluent knowledge-sharing and staff training for all levels of expertise and physical ability.

DIgital outcrop models  are embedded into a standalone VR device: Oculus Quest (version 1 and 2). Various additional geoscience data (horizon, logs, samples...) are added in the immersive environement to build complete educational courses.

A first demo is available using the Jungle VR technology   on the world famous turbiditic outcrop: Annot Sandstones  .

Future work could lead to a collection of virtual analog outcrop representing multiple depositional contexts. Besides the workflow, integrating field data in the VR platform from their on-site digitalization could be automated. 

 

Key features and benefits

High interactivity with various data types illustration

High interactivity with various data types

 

Multiple geoscience data (horizon interpretations, sedimentary logs, samples photographs…) and information (educational texts, images, videos…) can be intuitively displayed along the digital outcrop and analyzed by the user directly in the VR environment. 

Scale-adaptive visualization & high-resolution texture illustration

Scale-adaptive visualization & high-resolution texture

 

Thanks to years of experience developping the SmartAnalog workflow, IFPEN experts can deliver  either highly-detailed outcrop models (to highlight sedimentary figures, fossils, relative grain sizes…) or very large-scale ones (to visualize broad sedimentary or structural architectures).

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