John, Nigel W.Day, Thomas W.Wardle, TerrenceKozlíková, Barbora and Krone, Michael and Smit, Noeska and Nieselt, Kay and Raidou, Renata Georgia2020-09-282020-09-282020978-3-03868-109-02070-5786https://doi.org/10.2312/vcbm.20201167https://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.2312/vcbm20201167This is a work in progress paper that describes a novel endoscope interface designed for use in an immersive virtual reality surgical simulator. We use an affordable off the shelf head mounted display to recreate the operating theatre environment. A hand held controller has been adapted so that it feels like the trainee is holding an endoscope controller with the same functionality. The simulator allows the endoscope shaft to be inserted into a virtual patient and pushed forward to a target position. The paper describes how we have built this surgical simulator with the intention of carrying out a full clinical study in the near future.Human centered computingVirtual realitySoftware and its engineeringVirtual worlds training simulations10.2312/vcbm.2020116725-29