There is a growing interest for the broad use of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) to visualize complex biological and chemical structures. AR and VR technologies allow for stunning and immersive experiences, offering untapped opportunities for both research and education purposes. However, preparing 3D models ready to use for AR and VR is time-consuming and requires a technical expertise that severely limits the development of new contents of potential interest for structural biologists, medicinal chemists, or teachers. Herein, we present the RealityConvert software tool, which allows users to easily convert molecular objects (stored as pdb or sdf files) to high quality 3D models directly compatible for AR and VR applications. For chemical structures, in addition to the 3D model generation, RealityConvert also generates image trackers, useful to universally call and anchor that particular 3D model when used in various AR applications. Using RealityConvert, we developed the largest repository of AR-compatible models for all marketed drugs, a sample can be found on our website: https://www.fourches-laboratory.com/. The ultimate goal of RealityConvert is to facilitate and boost the development and accessibility of AR and VR contents for bioinformatics and cheminformatics applications

RealityConvert: A tool for preparing 3D models of biochemical structures for AR and VR

254th National Meeting (2017)

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