Abstract
An immersive Molecular Virtual Reality environment in which the user interacts with a X3D virtual world using immersive devices and dynamic gestures is presented.
The user through the virtual world invokes a Web server to perform a real-time simulation and find a stable molecular structure.
The outcome of the simulation is the representation of the stable structure of the molecular system in the X3D world.
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Gervasi, O., Tasso, S., Laganà , A. (2006). Immersive Molecular Virtual Reality Based on X3D and Web Services. In: Gavrilova, M., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2006. ICCSA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3980. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11751540_23
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