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VISTA – Virtual Instruction in Surveying and Terrain Assessment – is a virtual reality (VR) project that supports training new Department of the Air Force Geobase Program personnel in geodetic and geometric survey operations with a specific focus on the setup of the total station.
Summary
The GRILL® scholars were challenged to create a VR program for training new personnel on conducting geodetic and geometric survey operations. VR was chosen to improve ease of instruction.
The project included creating realistic models of surveying equipment. The virtual environment had to assign real-world tasks to the user as well as track performance and identify errors.
Features and Design
Software
Unreal Engine 5
Meshy AI
Blender
USGS EarthExplorer
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Hardware
Meta Quest 2 VR headset
Contributions
Team:
Leah Casas
Sean Gupta
Arjun Vohra
Mentors:
Elijah Crawford
Tyler Frost
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Client:
Department of the Air Force Geobase Program
Mr. Julio Toala
MSgt Robert Jacobs
Daniel Sandrowicz
Outcomes and Additional Information
The team had to model survey equipment, including a total station, tripod, tribach, bubble level, and leveling gears. The virtual equipment had to be realistic in terms of function and setup.
The training includes a tutorial with task-based learning via a double whiteboard setup, showing current tasking, a progress bar, and reporting.
Future work will include implementing surveying functionality, adding more equipment and models, and additional training tasks.
VISTA Final Presentation.pdfDemo video of the project, also featured in the YouTube presentation.
Virtual representations of the tripod (far left), and total station Trimble S7 model and component parts (center, far right).
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