Project preview: bronchoscopy

Greetings,

I am working on a virtual bronchoscopy (a scope that goes in the airway) project in unity. I've been building it for awhile so I thought I'd post it and get suggestions.

You can navigate around until you get to certain points where the bronchus narrows and the scope can go no further. You can rotate the scope (yourself) as well. I will be building more functionality in later.

http://brodel.med.utoronto.ca/~leslie/bronchoscopy.html

Bugs I still need to fix:
-When you rotate more than 90 degrees, your left and right reverse.
-Sometimes you get stuck and can't back up.
-the GUI text looks pretty bad.

Controls:
w/s - forward/backward
x/z - rotate CW/CCW
a/d - rotate lung model


Any suggestions appreciated!

 

I thought that was what those shaders were for. Nice job. Some notes:

If you point the camera upwards at certain points, it'll start to shake quite violently.
Also It's not very easy to navigate backwards. You get the feeling that you're a spherical being‚ which I guess is how you implemented it, where what you're going for is a retraction of the tube, right? On that case, view angle shouldn't really have any effect on your travel backwards.

 

Thanks.


Yeah, that's one of biggest challenges--making it feel as though you're not a sphere walking through a tunnel. I'm still working on it.