Visual Rendering Engine for Virtual Reality Surgical Training Simulator

A system for providing a virtual reality simulation in three dimensions for a virtual reality surgical simulator, comprising:

• a processing system, configured for generating and displaying visual representations of a simulated surgical environment in a graphical user interface configured to present at least one simulation image in at least one central portion of the graphical user interface and secondary information in at least one periphery of the graphical user interface;
• at least one input device communicatively coupled to the processing system;
• at least one output device communicatively coupled to the processing system;
• at least one rendering engine communicatively coupled to the processing system and configured to compose sets of machine-readable instructions for generating and displaying the visual representations;
• at least one physics engine communicatively coupled to the processing system;
• and
• at least one metrics engine communicatively coupled to the processing system,
• at least one database communicatively coupled to a the processing system.

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a set of computer readable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, causes a device to perform a process comprising:

• receiving a command to initialize a simulation;
• initializing a connection to one or more connected rendering, physics, and metrics engines;
• loading into the one or more connected rendering engines at least one initial state description file that is appropriate to render an initial state of a graphical user interface, wherein the graphical user interface is configured to provide an interface having secondary information in a periphery of the graphical user interface and a configurable main panel in a central area of the graphical user interface;
• composing a first set of machine-readable instructions for generating the initial state of the graphical user interface by the one or more connected rendering engines;
• transmitting the first set of machine-readable instructions to a processing system;
• and
• causing the initial state of the graphical user interface to be displayed on at least one connected output device having a plurality of configuration option icons displayed in the main panel configured to allow a user to change the configuration or state of a virtual reality surgical simulator system on selection of one or more icons.