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 The Virtual Reality Center is an impressive, high-tech environment capable of providing useful design review services to aviation manufacturers and non-aviation related sectors such as architecture. With impressive real-time fly-throughs and the capability to make changes to simulations in seconds, the VRC is a useful collaboration tool for other NIAR laboratories such as Computational Mechanics, CAD/CAM and Human Factors.
capabilities
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- Virtual Prototyping: in conception and design phases from any Computer Aided Design (CAD) or Computer Aided Industrial Design (CAID) data
- Digital Manufacturing: used for Real Time Process Plan and Work Cell simulation from any CAD/CAM data
- Digital Engineering: used in pre- and post-processing of massive Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) datasets for analysis and certifi cation purposes
- Ergonomics: in real-time anthropometrical analysis for assembly, accessibility and training evaluations
- Sales/Marketing: in photo-realistic, real-time simulation of customized products
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facilities & equipment
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- 1,842 sq.ft. visualization room
- Seating for 25 viewers
- PC-based clusters: Dell R5400 Rack Workstation with NVIDIA QFX 5800 cards and HP xw9300 NVIDIA with QFX 4500 cards
- SGI Onyx300 (for legacy data)
- Panoram’s PanoWall 2K 15 x 7 ft. flat screen, active stereoscopic, rear projection, 2 Christie’s Mirage 5000 reaching a combined resolution of 2368x1024 pixels
- Mitsubishi DLP HTDV 65" stereo and RealD PageFlip/POD
- Sensics xSight panoramic head mounted display with 1680x1050_60Hz and 123 degree horizontal and 45 degree vertical
- NVIS VisorSX head mounted display with 1280x1024_60Hz and 60 degree diagonal field-of-view
- Fakespace Lab’s PinchGlove
- VICON 602 optical motion capture with 10 MCam2 high-speed (120Hz) cameras for high precision ergonomics analysis
- Ascension’s Nest of Birds extended range magnetic motion tracking for head, hands and wand
- Creston’s control system and wireless RF touch panel
- Extron’s CrossPoint Plus 8x8HV and 8x4Hva matrix switchers
- 5.1 channel audio system with 4 speakers
- Sony’s Digital8 IEEE 1394 fireware camera
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software
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- DS CATIA/ENOVIA V5
- DS 3DVia Virtools
- OPTIS SPEOS CAA V5 Light Modeling, Visual Ergonomics & Windshield Analysis
- PTC Division Mockup Reality
- EON Reality Professional/I-Catcher
- Right Hemisphere Deep Exploration & Deep View
- Mental Images' RealityServer and Mental Mill
- CEI Ensight Gold
- Autodesk 3D Studio MAX
- Middleware: VRCO Trackd & VA RapidVRM
- OpenGL and OpenGL Performer-based proprietary codes
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downloads/links
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contacts
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Fernando Toledo
Manager
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