The Online Virtual Philippine General Hospital

Abstract

The Philippine General Hospital is the most prominent hospital in the Philippines. Its aim is to promote a high quality of life by extending its medical services to a greater number of people. The Internet has long been the bastion of new ideas that promote the availability of various information. Several institutions have acquired online presence in order to reach out of a wider audience. One of the ways of presenting information is by creating 3D worlds that would enable the visitors to be immersed in a virtual environment and at the same time, they can access data by interacting with the objects inside the virtual world. Thus, by applying the concept of the Internet and the VRML technology, the goal of the PGH may be achieved. The Online Virtual Philippine General Hospital aims to present information related to the Philippine General Hospital in an innovative manner. There would be A 3D hospital simulating the structural aspects of the PGH, capable of sheltering the major information about the said hospital and its departments. This information consists of the medical staff for each department, medical exams, job opportunities, advertisements and others that are of interest to the web visitors. The Virtual PGH will be created by the use of the 3D authoring tool TrueSpace 4 and the VRML browser recommended for this study is Blaxxun Contact 4.3.