VR Collaborative Engineering Facility at Boeing, Long Beach
Targets C-130
Modernization
Panoram Technologies, in partnership with Hewlett-Packard, installed
and equipped what Boeing personnel refer to as their "virtual
reality theater" at their Long Beach facility. The center,
a collaborative engineering and design room, is an environment
within which project team members can "see more, understand
better and decide quicker," Panoram's axiom for the company's
technology.
Design engineers at work on Boeing's C-130 Avionics Modernization
Program are able to collaborate as never before in the VR
Theater, using Panoram products in combination with the powerful
HP sv6 graphics computer. In addition to reviewing and adjusting
their designs in real time without "going back to the
drawing board," engineers are able to actually see and
compare all of the airplane's previous configurations at once,
address their redesign efforts, and make decisions together.
Panoram's PanoWall™, a 10 x 30 ft. (3 x 9m), 3.5 million
pixel rear projection display, is the centerpiece of the specially
designed room, positioned at the front of an auditorium-type
setting. Four computer workstations line the sides of the
room, and projection controls are located at the rear. The
PanoWall™ features not only Video Panoram®, the company's
patented edge blending technology, and the Integrator™
system control, but a surround sound audio system that enables
all collaborating personnel to hear one another while they
work.
The HP sv6 delivers an unprecedented combination of photo-realistic
image quality and scalable performance, allowing designers
and engineers to review complete digital mock-ups in real
time. Introduced in August, 2001 as the first commercially
available, massively scalable visualization architecture,
the sv6 is designed to support customers' needs for interactive
visualization of large, complex data sets.
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