Media: BBC features 3D Teaching Tool

A BBC Science story by Julian Siddle describes a 3D method of producing digital images, which could change many elements of design and teaching. Researchers at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland have produced a virtual tool which could be of use to car designers, trainee doctors and to teach maths and other conceptual materials.

The image appears as a projection in front of the viewer, who 'can walk around it, bend and stretch it and even get inside it'. Users wear a pair of glasses which projects the image in 3D, using a pair of 'what look like wired gardening gloves' to manipulate the image.

Paul Anderson, professor at the school of art, says they expect that over the next five years, the system will become as common as home computers as it could be used online for playing interactive games.

This follows the recent use of VR to stage the recreation of events, most importantly as part of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, seeking to establish what really happened in Londonderry on 30 January, 1972, when British soldiers opened fire on civil rights protesters, killing 13.

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