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The remote laboratory project Virtual Instrument Systems In Reality (VISIR) was launched in 2006 and since then it has been installed in approximately 20 institutions around the world. At the beginning, the web user interface was created with Adobe Flash and later ported to HTML5. The 2D interface lets users add components and wires to a virtual breadboard and take measurements with virtual instruments like DC power supply, function generator, multimeter and oscilloscope. In the recent years new developments in virtual reality made devices affordable for use at home and, besides gaming, other fields of use such as educational training emerged. This paper focuses on the development of a VR client prototype for the VISIR laboratory. It covers the necessary software for development, the game concept, user interactions and input, the transformation of components from the VISIR HTML client to VR and the considerations behind it. Finally, it gives an outlook on future steps.
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Kreiter, C., Cosic, D., Klinger, T. (2022). A Virtual Reality Prototype for the VISIR Remote Lab. In: Auer, M.E., Tsiatsos, T. (eds) New Realities, Mobile Systems and Applications. IMCL 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 411. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96296-8_79
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