$($a$)$ Distractors can reduce the user experience in a Virtual Reality

system. In the context of one of the courseworks done this year

explain how THREE such problems were minimized.

$(6$ marks$)$

$($b$)$ A VR system is required to help people learn to drive a car. It is

envisaged that a simple system would have a suitable means of

displaying the road and a suitable controller for steering and

changing speed. What would you put into such a system?

How might you extend the system to allow the user to set the speed

with their feet and to change gear?

If this was a trainer for Formula $1$ racing, what else might you

want?

$(8$ marks$)$

$($c$)$ In modern surgery, robots are used where the surgeon remotely

controls the instruments, such as scalpels, etc. by viewing these

instruments inside and outside the body and manipulating them.

Discuss the sensory information that the surgeon needs and how

that could be achieved. Explain also how the system can be

adapted as a training aid for surgeons.