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Fakespace, Dassault Systemes and Silicon Graphics Integrate Immersive Design Environment for CATIA Version 5 Digital Mock-Up Mountain View, CA - October 13, 98 – Fakespace, Inc., Dassault Systemes (NASDAQ: DASTY) and Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced a development for integrating immersive visualization with CATIA Version 5. The integration of three-dimensional (3D) stereoscopic visualization platforms from Fakespace and CATIA Digital mock-up applications enables customers to manipulate, assemble, and disassemble virtual mechanical objects while navigating through the entire CATIA digital mock-up. The first implementation of this collaboration is demonstrated at the CATIA Operators Exchange (COE) conference, taking place this week. "CATIA 3D Mock-Up processes and applications are used by various industries to design and simulate entire complex assembly structures, such as vehicles, aircraft, plants, consumer products," according to Dominique Florack, Executive Vice-President R&D, at Dassault Systemes. "Using high-quality immersive display platforms from Fakespace, CATIA customers can directly manipulate virtual objects while benefiting from a precise embedded view of the mock-up. The immersive display provides amazing realism with simulation and 3D designs in a virtual world, and demonstrates the complete scalability with a high- end CATIA Version 5 platform." Advanced visualization platforms from Fakespace enable mathematically accurate stereo viewing, navigation, and manipulation of 3D CATIA models. The BOOM® HF (Hands-Free), which is being demonstrated at COE, is a virtually weightless CRT-based stereoscopic display system that attaches lightly to the head so that both hands are free to manipulate a model, or to interact with real or "virtual" controls. The BOOM HF is easy-to-use, comfortable, durable, and easily accessible to multiple-users. "Dassault Systemes is the worldwide leader in CAD/CAM/CAE software for product synthesis," said Mark Bolas, chairman and chief executive officer of Fakespace, Inc. "We are very pleased to have the opportunity to integrate our broad range of visualization platforms with the powerful CATIA applications. Fakespace displays enable engineers and designers to work with digital models in a very fluid, natural manner, providing even more value from the CATIA 3D Digital Mock-Ups. " "Virtual reality and digital mock-up have entered mainstream product development processes at leading global manufacturing companies. These companies are continuously driving Silicon Graphics and Dassault Systemes to dramatically improve insight and productivity," said Phil Uchno, Vice President of Manufacturing Marketing at Silicon Graphics. "Fakespace's 3D BOOM, coupled with the unmatched performance of our graphics workstations, gives our customers a distinct competitive advantage. Because the 3D BOOM allows designers and engineers to completely immerse themselves into their CATIA models to interact and make improvements in real-time thereby dramatically improving their productivity in ways never possible before." The Digital Mock-Up immersive design demonstration is taking place in a joint Fakespace/Dassault Systemes /Silicon Graphics booth at the COE Technifair in Traverse City Michigan from October 12-14. The BOOM HF provides extremely high-resolution (1280 x 1024), up to a 140 degree field-of-view and perfect tracking in a lightweight system. The display is supported by a counterbalanced structure, so its weight does not rest on the user’s head as it does with an HMD (head-mounted display). The support structure, which includes optical encoders for tracking, keeps the BOOM solidly suspended so it is easily passed from one user to the next. For collaborative use, the BOOM can also be linked to a projected screen system where groups can follow along and share observations with the immersed viewer. Complementing the CATIA product line, CATIA Version 5 is a completely re-engineered CAx offering which utilizes next generation object technologies and leading edge industry standards such as STEP, JAVA, CORBA. It delivers an innovative and intuitive user interface and a platform independent architecture for native Windows/NT and UNIX systems. The result is an easy to install, fun to learn, and natural to use system. Its native OLE and Internet/intranet web compliance enables system integration within the office environment and across the digital enterprise. CATIA Version 5 delivers breakthrough, scalable applications for companies at all levels in design automation. At its core, CATIA Version 5 builds on powerful smart modeling concepts enabling the capture and re-use of corporate engineering knowledge and the implementation of generative rule-based product development processes. Versions 5 offers compatibility with Version 4. This allows both systems to be used together and provides a smooth progression for existing users. Dassault Systemes is the worldwide-recognized leader in CAx and PDM II markets. CATIA-CADAM Solutions with Deneb, the digital manufacturing company, address the CAD/CAM/CAE process-centric market. Through a unique strategic partnership, CATIA-CADAM Solutions are marketed, distributed and supported by IBM worldwide. This unique partnership is now extended to PDM II solutions. SolidWorks, a Dassault Systemes company, addresses the CAD design-centric market, with its flagship native Windows NT product and its dedicated distribution channel. In the network-computing environments, the Java-based CATweb product line provides a graphical window into native enterprise product data. For the PDM II market, ENOVIA Corp., a Dassault Systemes company, provides with its ENOVIAvpm and ENOVIApm product lines a new multi-CAD collaborative and innovative environment for virtual product and process modeling and management across the extended enterprise. Silicon Graphics, Inc. is a leading supplier of visual computing and high-performance systems. The company offers the broadest range of products in the industry -- from low-end desktop workstations to servers and high-end supercomputers. Key industries include communications, energy, entertainment, government, manufacturing and sciences. Silicon Graphics and its subsidiaries have offices throughout the world and corporate headquarters in Mountain View, California. Fakespace, Inc., headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is a leading provider of interactive visualization solutions for automotive, manufacturing, military, aerospace, and scientific visualization applications. The company’s virtual model display product family includes the VersaBench™ and the Immersive WorkBench™. Fakespace high-resolution, binocular displays include the BOOM, the BOOM HF (formerly the FS2™) and the PUSH™ Desktop Display. Other products include PINCH™ Glove hand gesture interface systems, hardware and software for integrating applications into 3D visualization systems, and consulting services for applications development. Originally founded in 1989, Fakespace received an equity investment in June 1998 from Electrohome, Ltd., (TSE: ELL.X, ELL.Y), a leading manufacturer and marketer of large screen video/data/graphics projection systems, located in Kitchener, Ontario. The investment supports accelerated growth of the company’s marketing programs and expansion of the Fakespace family of products for immersive visual simulation applications. ### About Mechdyne Corporation Mechdyne Corporation is the world’s largest company dedicated to consulting and development of immersive, networked and collaborative visualization systems. The company addresses complex projects where an in-depth understanding of user requirements leads to the development of products and customized solutions involving elements of visual, software and support systems. Mechdyne’s product divisions provide advanced display technology, audio/visual systems design, and implementation services, as well as immersive and interactive software development and support. Headquartered in Marshalltown, Iowa, Mechdyne’s customers include leading government laboratories, military research programs, energy companies and a variety of ‘edutainment,’ manufacturing, and other users of visualization technology. More information is available at www.mechdyne.com. Mechdyne Press Contact Jeff Brum Matt Schmidt |
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