Conduit


A certified, future proof solution

Mechdyne builds strong partnerships with application vendors to guarantee flawless, future proof VR solutions for your applications.  


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CONDUIT™

Bringing Desktop Applications to VR

Conduit allows you to run desktop 3D graphics applications inside virtual reality environments. No data preparation, no conversion-- your native 3D data is displayed in VR instantly.  Conduit supports any type of display, including 3D TVs, HMDs (head-mounted displays), PowerWalls™ and CAVEs.

 

Capabilities

  •  Virtual reality and display support
    • Stereoscopic 3D
    • Tracked viewer perspective
    • Head mounted displays (see list of supported devices at trackd)
    • Multi-channel, multi-wall: CAVE, FLEX, dome displays, Powerwalls
    • Life size, true 1:1 scale viewing
  • Interaction support
    • Tracked user interactions and easy navigation (see list of supported devices at trackd)
    • Immersive user interfaces, remote desktop panels
    • Web-based configuration and control panel for easy integration into IT infrastructure
    • Motion capture support
  • Graphics rendering
    • Multi-GPU
    • Distributed rendering on PC clusters
    • Graphics frame optimization to support refresh rates faster than native application

How Does Conduit Work?

Conduit intercepts graphics commands from a desktop application - like Google Earth, ProEngineer, V5, and others - and redistributes them to one or more PC workstations (nodes) driving an immersive display system.  Each node receives the graphics calls and displays the geometry after making the necessary additions for stereo or viewer perspective support.  For example, a four-node cluster could be configured to drive a four-wall CAVE with each node responsible for one of the walls.  Watch our Conduit video  to see how it works.

 

USE CASES

  •  Engineering design reviews directly from PLM system into the display without time intensive file conversions

  • Architectural walk throughs of photo realistic models with ability to modify digital content in real time, directly from the design tool
  • Urban planning visualizations fusing GIS data and 3D models of buildings and infrastructure

BENEFITS

  • Reduces cycle times and improves decision making
  • Eliminates the need to learn new applications or depend on specially trained visualization experts
  • See more data and have more insight with high resolution
  • Supports multi-channel, multi-planar 3D systems
  • Allows for true depth perception viewing
  • Navigate through your designs
  • Scale performance with cluster computing
  • Increase resolution output using cluster-based, multi-projector, tiled displays proven beyond 100 million pixels

CONDUIT CERTIFIED APPLICATIONS

Using Conduit, we can make popular desktop design, GIS and modeling applications VR-aware, including:

Market

Vendor

Application

CAD/CAM

Siemens

NX
   

TeamCenter
 

PTC

ProEngineer

Dassault Systemes

Enovia V5


Catia V5
   

Delmia V5

DCC (Digital Content Creation)

Autodesk

Maya
 

Open Source/Blender

Blender Game Engine  

 

Google

Sketchup

Architectural Review

Autodesk

Navisworks

GIS (Geographic Information Systems)

ESRI

ArcScene
 

Google

Google Earth

Scientific Visualization

Open Source/DOE/ASCI     

VisIt

 

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