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Nuclear Engineering Center’s abstract on a novel method to make complex 3D models accessible in VR applications generated significant interest at the Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP), hosted by CERN. CHEP is a leading event for showcasing advances in computing and software for the physics community.
After the presentation, the team expanded the abstract into a full paper, “Geometry Simplification Methods for Virtual Reality Application.” The paper was accepted for publication, which marks an important milestone for our team.
The paper describes a technique developed by the Nuclear Engineering Center to bring high-energy physics to the public via VR on standard smartphones. Created for the ATLAS Experiment at CERN, the method overcomes the limitations of traditional VR—which typically requires expensive hardware—by intelligently reducing 3D model complexity by over 99.8%. This is achieved by removing unseen details, simplifying structures, and optimizing surfaces.
The result is the Tracer/VR application, which lets anyone explore the ATLAS detector using just a smartphone and a simple Google Cardboard headset—making immersive science education more affordable and accessible to all.
