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posted by mrpg on Tuesday July 17 2018, @01:29AM   Printer-friendly
from the now-that's-useful dept.

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University of Bristol researchers have designed and tested a new virtual reality (VR) cloud-based system intended to allow researchers to reach out and "touch" molecules as they move — folding them, knotting them, plucking them, and changing their shape to test how the molecules interact. Using an HTC Vive virtual-reality device, it could lead to creating new drugs and materials and improving the teaching of chemistry.

[...] The multi-user system, developed by a team led by University of Bristol chemists and computer scientists, uses an "interactive molecular dynamics virtual reality" (iMD VR) app that allows users to visualize and sample (with atomic-level precision) the structures and dynamics of complex molecular structures "on the fly" and to interact with other users in the same virtual environment.

Source: Discovering new drugs and materials by 'touching' molecules in virtual reality


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 18 2018, @03:52AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 18 2018, @03:52AM (#708651)

    Obviously you didn't go to Fred Brooks' seminars...