Engineers Sharpen Their Skills, Virtually
Application: Mechanical engineering training simulation
Equipment Used: WorldViz Vizard 3D software toolkit, WorldViz PPT X4 optical inertial hybrid wide-area tracking system, NVIS nVisor SX head-mounted display, 5DT 14 Sensor Data Glove
At the IEEE Virtual Reality Conference in Alexandria, Virginia, WorldViz in partnership with NVIS demonstrated an aircraft turbine assembly simulation. The demonstration was built with and rendered by the Vizard 3D toolkit, made by WorldViz.
Users trained assembling and disassembling parts of an aircraft turbine in real-time, wearing a 6DOF tracked 5DT 14 sensor data glove. Robust and jitter-free optical/inertial wide-area tracking provided by the WorldViz PPT X4 system and the InterSense InertiaCube allowed users to not only explore the virtual environment by naturally moving around within the simulation, but manipulate the turbine from any viewpoint.
Either immersed in the simulation by donning the 6DOF tracked high-resolution stereo NVIS nVisor SX head-mounted display, or by viewing the simulation on a large screen, booth visitors were offered insight into the possibilities and cost benefits of virtual training.
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