Abstract
Our recent research in remote laboratory management systems (REMLABNET - www.remlabnet.eu) deals with questions such as how to make the user experience stronger and how to help users understand complex phenomena behind remote experiments and the laws of physics governing the experiment. At our current stage of technological development, we have both sufficiently powerful hardware and software to create an impressive virtual user interface which could be a help to this mission. An extended mixed reality taxonomy for remote physical experiments was proposed to identify goals of the future REMLABNET research and development. The first part of this paper describes classes of taxonomy and reasons why they were set up in this way. The second part mentions the chosen method of our research and our current progress.
Highlights
REMLABNET is a Remote Laboratory Management System (RLMS) which allows combining the research world of physics with modern elements of information technologies
Rapid development and technological progress in virtual reality (VR) devices bring new possibilities that RLMSs can offer to their users
VR became a mature discipline combining computer graphics, computer vision, object recognition, simulation, artificial intelligence, and data mining. It contains a lot of subcategories, e.g. augmented reality (AR), augmented virtuality (AV), mediated reality (MR), simulated reality (SR), and others
Summary
REMLABNET (version 2017) is a Remote Laboratory Management System (RLMS) which allows combining the research world of physics with modern elements of information technologies. For the purposes of REMLABNET and common development of remote physical experiments, we extend standard mixed reality taxonomy [8]. It is possible not to stream video and show virtual models of the rig (2-D or 3-D) instead, and the events in the laboratory can be demonstrated on these models (there can be many reasons for this attitude, e.g. high network latency, fault of video devices, etc.) In this case, the user observes an entirely virtual model which mirrors real events of the rig. Reference source not found..) would be a completely simulated experiment (observed via a VR headset consisting only from virtual elements), which is so realistic that users are not able to decide whether they are carrying out the measurement via simulation or they are observing a mirroring of the real rig. In the most extreme point of this stage, this remote experiment would be very close to the idea of simulated reality [10]
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