Posted on Monday, March 23rd, 2009 at 1:30 pm
3D Video Game Technology Makes Plants Virtually Real
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The Immersive Virtual Reality Process creates 3D computer-generated representations of real or proposed plants. A user, wearing a stereoscopic vision headset and holding controls that sense gestures, can move through the “plant” in any direction. The feeling of reality is enhanced by rendering the virtual environment at 60 frames per second - much faster than can be achieved using traditional, non real-time rendering. IPS expects the virtual reality system to improve plant safety and security and to increase production and efficiency, while controlling material costs. The system has been designed for a variety of roles, including process design, maintenance engineering and plant safety, and IPS expects it to be used widely in the next generation of process training programs.
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