Virtual reality for visualisation of complex macrostructure

Virtual reality systems involve the integration of both hardware and software components. The hardware enables users to navigate, interact and become immersed in the virtual environment while underlying support software creates the virtual environment and integrates the hardware into a working system. Although virtual reality is widely used for product design visualisation in engineering, there exist a number of possible avenues where virtual reality can be very effective. This paper deals with viable industrial applications for the visualisation of internal details of complex macrostructure. This research paper is concerned with a bone scaffold and chainmill structure that is less than 10 millimeters in size with relatively complex interconnections. The paper discusses the significant advantages of visualising and interacting with 3D digital prototype models of such structures in a virtual environment over the original physical structure, rapid prototype model and other techniques.