Cardiovascular System Pathologies Studying Using Virtual Reality Tools

Abstract

Accelerated growth of the online studying mode tended to the lack of practical skills development. Though many specialties were covered with newly developed courses and educational platforms not all of them provided the necessary level of the hard skills gathering. In some areas such as medicine, engineering, human interaction practice is crucial since it is a basis of the specialists’ knowledge.The article covers the development of the software application to provide medical students with a tool that will show pathologies of the cardiovascular system. The complex consists of two modules. The first contains a scene consisting of a 3D heart model. It shows four different pathologies of the heart. The second scene is dedicated to laparoscopic surgery with stenting of coronary vessels. To simulate interaction during laparoscopic surgery Leap Motion controller was used. The instrumental basis of the project for 3d modeling is Blender, the project’s development environment is Unity 3D game engine. All the scripts describing the application’s logic were written in the C# programming language.