Virtual Reality Center - Wichita State University - National Institute for Aviation Research
Virtual Reality & Reverse Engineering
CAPABILITIES
Virtual Prototyping: in conception and design phases from any Computer Aided Design (CAD) or Computer Aided Industrial Design (CAID) data
Digital Manufacturing: used for Real Time Process Plan and Work Cell simulation from any CAD/CAM data
Digital Engineering: used in pre- and post-processing of massive Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) datasets for analysis and certification purposes
Ergonomics: in real-time anthropometrical analysis for assembly, accessibility and training evaluations
Sales/Marketing: in photo-realistic, real-time simulation of customized products
FACILITIES & EQUIPMENT
1,842 sq.ft. visualization room
Seating for 25 viewers
PC-based clusters: Dell R5400 Rack Workstation with NVIDIA QFX 5800 cards and HP xw9300 NVIDIA with QFX 4500 cards
SGI Onyx300 (for legacy data)
Panoram’s PanoWall 2K 15 x 7 ft. flat screen, active stereoscopic, rear projection, 2 Christie’s Mirage 5000 reaching a combined resolution of 2368x1024 pixels
Mitsubishi DLP HTDV 65" stereo and RealD PageFlip/POD
Sensics xSight panoramic head mounted display with 1680x1050_60Hz and 123 degree horizontal and 45 degree vertical
NVIS VisorSX head mounted display with 1280x1024_60Hz and 60 degree diagonal field-of-view
Fakespace Lab’s PinchGlove
VICON 602 optical motion capture with 10 MCam2 high-speed (120Hz) cameras for high precision ergonomics analysis
Ascension’s Nest of Birds extended range magnetic motion tracking for head, hands and wand
Creston’s control system and wireless RF touch panel
Extron’s CrossPoint Plus 8x8HV and 8x4Hva matrix switchers
