Tutorial 2: Developing Virtual Reality applications with the Visualization Toolkit (VTK)

Summary form only given. A complete record of the tutorial was not made available for publication as part of the conference proceedings. The aim of this tutorial is to provide an introduction to the recent features added to the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) that now allows for rendering in external immersive environment. An introduction to VTK will be given in order to explain the basics and how to create visualization applications, followed by a description of modules allowing you to take your application into virtual reality (VR). The last part of the tutorial will focus on interactions by presenting different ways to interact in a VR environment using the VTK pipeline. The aim is for attendees to be able to build their first application in VR using VTK. They will get strong knowledge on a cross-platform, open-source and freely available system software. By taking more people into the VTK-VR loop, we hope to make mixed and augmented reality benefit more from VTK's advanced visualization, processing and modeling techniques, such as volume rendering or point cloud visualization.