Listen in as Frank Klassner, Professor at Villanova University, discusses how to enroll and engage multiple departments into using and getting value from a centralized visualization center. Frank’s innovation center features a custom, reconfigurable immersive CAVE that can support many different use cases.
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Full Body Immersion
The Original Large-Scale VR Environment
The Mechdyne CAVE™ virtual reality (VR) system is a room-sized, immersive working environment that combines stereoscopic displays, computer graphics, and motion-tracking technology to create a full-body sense of presence in a virtual environment. Whether two screens or up to six screens are used, a CAVE allows one or more users to become fully immersed in and interact with their virtual models. As compared to a head-mounted VR device, this large-scale solution enables:
- Fast analysis and interpretation of spatially-related data given expanded periphery images, including the floor
- Engagement of the “whole-brain,” using total body immersion and awareness, for enhanced retention
- Intuitive work within realistic, life-size, or scale-appropriate data for research or design. Stand inside a molecule or collaboratively design a building or work cell.
- Focus on data for extended periods of time without the discomfort of wearing the technology
- Viewing and collaborating with colleagues directly for expressions, gestures, and more.
Proven Over Decades
Shorten Design Cycles. Enable Discoveries. Realize New Potential.
A CAVE is a larger investment than smaller VR systems but can quickly generate a return on goals. Full body, spatial immersion leads to faster time to insight and better decision making. The ability to collaborate for longer periods of time creates opportunities for information discovery. CAVEs reduce prototyping costs, speed time to market, enable research, and lead to more confident decisions. Mechdyne’s solution teams provide consultation services to assist with goal and success metrics considerations before recommending a solution.
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Contact UsScalable Size. Scalable Resolution. Changeable Configurations.
Mechdyne designs each CAVE to suit the intended use cases. Workflow and application assessment lead to a recommendation for systems ranging from basic wall and floor (L-shape) configuration to fully enclosed six-sided spaces for complete virtual immersion.
- Walls can be scaled to extend the height and width to support viewable data. For example, a double-wide front wall scaled to that of an aircraft. Screens can be put in portrait mode and tiled to create larger immersive displays.
- Image resolution can be scaled providing the level of detail necessary to derive insight from specific data. Mechdyne built the world’s highest resolution CAVEs, 100 million 3D pixels in a virtually seamless, six-sided configuration (see the main picture and banner above, video below) – over 100 times HD for unmatched detail. Mechdyne solution engineers have expertise with all display technologies. Now, tiling with direct view LED panels brings entirely new possibilities.
- CAVEs can be reconfigurable with movable walls changeable from an immersive room to an angled theater to flat wall quickly and easily. Different configurations support specific data and audience needs for each use case, making the CAVE and even more valuable, central hub for multi-disciplinary teams. Adding multiple display elements and innovative designs create dynamic team collaboration spaces. We can automate moving walls and ceilings. We can make CAVEs portable. We love challenging requirements.
Mechdyne's Patents
Display transformation assembly for a visualization system
A display retraction assembly for a multi-display visualization device is provided comprising a first track in a first vertical plane, a second track in a second vertical plane offset from the first track, a display support member operably connected to the first track and second track and a display connected to the display support member wherein the display is movable simultaneously with the display support member along the first track and second track.
Automatically addressable configuration system for recognition of a motion tracking system and method of use
A system for automatically uploading a constellation module for a motion tracking system is provided comprising a programmable computer system having a first electronically readable storage medium. A motion tracking system is in communication with the programmable computer system, and includes a controller having a second electronically readable storage medium and a plurality of transponders. A configuration module resides on the first electronically readable medium. The configuration module is adapted to communicate with the motion tracking system and includes a first configuration parameter adapted to automatically instruct the second electronically readable storage medium to delete an existing constellation module, a second configuration parameter adapted to automatically acquire a desired replacement constellation module, and a third configuration parameter adapted to automatically transfer the replacement constellation module to the second electronically readable storage medium. A method for using the system is also provided.
Portable light projector unit
A rugged portable projector unit is suitable for transport and easy set-up. A projector is mounted to a rigid subframe by a mounting platform. A shock absorbing element is provided between the subframe and the mounting platform. The subframe is mounted within a hardened carrying case. Shock absorbing elements are provided between the subframe and the carrying case. The top of the carrying case is removable. A mirror is hingedly attached to the top of the subframe to reflect images produced by the projector. Access panels and cooling doors are provided in the carrying case to permit access and ventilation to the projector. The carrying case is provided with wheels to allow it to be rolled along the ground. The carrying case is also provided with offset handles on its sides so that the unit naturally tilts to aid in loading and unloading from raised surfaces.
