SGI and Trimension deliver Reality Center solution to Landmark GraphicsWest Sussex 06 September 2002 Trimension Systems, a division of SEOS, and SGI have just completed installation of an SGI Reality Center facility in the Executive Briefing Center at the Houston, Texas, headquarters of Landmark Graphics Corporation. The new immersive visualisation system, powered by a 16-processor SGI Onyx 3400 graphics supercomputer with three InfiniteReality3 subsystems, is the first-ever front-projected installation using Digital Light Processing (DLP) projectors on a curved screen with active stereo, not only in the energy industry, but at any commercial site internationally.
Such configurations are much more typical on flat rather than cylindrical screens, which require specialist technical solutions for such problems as blending of image edges.
Equipped with the latest in Trimension's DLP projection technology and incorporating SEOS's Mercator UX, the Landmark facility displays complex data sets in active stereo, allowing users to enter a virtual world, immersing themselves in their data, including seismic analysis data sets. Mercator UX, the world-leading UXGA distortion correction system, provides image-distortion correction to allow LCD and DLP projectors, among others, to be used in curved-screen applications.
Landmark Graphics Corporation, a wholly owned business unit of Halliburton, will utilise the 12-foot curved-screen environment to demonstrate its consulting services, which optimise virtual environments for the exploration of data in ways not possible in the physical world.
Project management, including successful installation ahead of schedule under tight deadlines, was handled by SGI Professional Services, which specialises in providing industry-specific consulting, expert technology services and ongoing system support.
SGI Reality Center facilities help users arrive at better decisions in less time, providing enormous cost savings while enhancing productivity. They are widely relied upon for real-time, highly interactive working sessions for:
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