Innovative visualization: You never saw molecules like this

You never saw molecules like this

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  • Client

    Universiteit Antwerpen

  • Type

    Innovation

  • Services

    Virtual Reality

How do you accurately create and visualize specific complex molecular structures in 3D to study them? Together with our partner Epyc Solutions and the University of Antwerp, we chose an innovative visualization using Virtual Reality as a solution to this challenge. Thanks to this application, UA can presently visualize and study a protein in 3D space.

Visualize complex molecules in 3D to study their structure

Educational tool with didactic added value

The functioning of proteins is highly dependent on their spatial structure. Therefore, the project aims to allow users to interact with simple to highly complex proteins through an immersive VR environment. The innovative visualization correspondingly serves as an educational tool for, among others, chemistry and PhD students at the University of Antwerp. Hence, thanks to the 3D representation, theoretical concepts can be studied and explored in an intuitive way.

Blended learning explained

The instructor can guide the VR experience and is actively involved as students experiment with different concepts. Consequently, the student’s actions can be monitored and managed on the screen.

Tailored Hardware

With the Meta Quest 2, a VR headset, macromolecules can be viewed, and you can move freely and look around in the virtual space. Thanks to the specifically built-in filters in the innovative visualization, you can therefore focus on what you want to study: conduct analyses, calculate structures, and much more.

Fascinating, meaningful and sustainable

The VR tool interacts with the protein database, consequently allowing it to work with any protein. Therefore, this enables instructors to easily update their teaching materials. The tool thus remains relevant in the long term, as Virtual Reality is a sustainable educational resource for achieving a broader goal.

Universiteit Antwerpen Speaking.

"The VR tool we developed with Soulmade allows our researchers and students to be immersed in the world of atoms. It gives an impressive look at how that drugs exert their effects by binding to certain proteins."

Hans De Winter - Professor at the University of Antwerp

Universiteit Antwerpen

New worlds to explore

Virtual reality is the ultimate instrument for a complete experience. You enter a parallel universe that shows reality, an idea or a dream in an accessible way.

How does it work?

We recreate your ideal world in virtual reality by filming a 360° video on-site or by recreating it in 3D.

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