Virtual lab for material testing using the Oculus Rift

Abstract

A virtual lab with different material testing experiments in the field of forming technology is presented. Within a virtual environment, developed for the Oculus Rift, users can interact with the virtual test equipment to setup and conduct a tensile as well as a deep drawing test. The user can choose to hide different objects to gain an unobstructed view on the forming process which is impossible in actual experiments due to non-transparent machine parts. A variety of parameters can be altered in order to simulate different aspects of the depicted experiments.