MOSIS: Immersive Virtual Field Environments for Earth Sciences

For the past decades, environmental studies have been mostly a field activity, especially when concerning geosciences, where rock exposures could not be represented or taken into laboratories. Besides that, VR (Virtual Reality) is growing in many academic areas as an important technology to represent 3D objects, bringing immersion to the most simple tasks. Following that trend, MOSIS (Multi Outcrop Sharing and Interpretation System) was created to help earth scientists and other users to visualize and study VFEs (Virtual Field Environments) from all over the world in immersive virtual reality.