virtalis discuss vr; from virtual to reality - 2016 the year of vr

Predictive Simulation Conference 2016

From Virtual to Reality

Julian FordUK Commercial Manager

Who is Virtalis?

A Wealth of Experience

• A world-leading provider or VR solutions

• Originally formed in 1989

• UK HQ with subsidiaries in the US, Germany, Malaysia and Finland

• Enviable, prestigious global customer base

• 43 staff

• Over 300 man years of experience

Virtual Reality - Concept

• A suite of technologies that supports real-time, life-like human interaction with computer-generated datasets/environments

• Virtual environments encourage collaboration, stimulate communications, cross discipline and aid understanding

• The ability to collaborate in real time with colleagues located at multiple disparate sites is a extremely powerful capability

Virtual Reality – Myths

• Beyond my budget

Image Generators from the late ‘90s

But it wasn’t always like this

Virtual Reality – Myths

• Difficult to use and support

Virtual Reality – Myths

• Not readily accessible

• Requires IT department support

Virtual Reality –The landscape is changing

• Accessible VR is a big driver for 2016

• Consumer HMDs are shipping now; from Oculus and HTC

• Immersive desktop solutions are readily available

• Low-end systems can be networked with each other and/or with large scale visualization solutions to create a single, collaborative virtual environment

Market Sectors

• Engineering• Automotive, Aerospace, Ship building, Rail, Off highway

• Architecture, Engineering & Construction (BIM)

• Power (generation & distribution)

• Utilities (Asset management)

• Retail (micro & macro space planning & merchandising)

• Academia & Research• Built environment, psychology, Life/Bio sciences, Engineering

• Geosciences

• Medical (Training mostly)

Visualization – use cases

Maintenance

Design

ManufacturingMarketing

Training

• Concept Design evaluation

• Design validation

• Simulate manufacturing or building methods & processes

• Simulate assembly sequences

• Validate disassembly or maintenance procedures

• Create Immersive training environments

• Innovative marketing & communications tool

Road Test VR

• Visit our stand and try the VR experience

• Hands on with Visionary Render on a supported evaluation

• Low cost entry level solutions

• VR Technology days – let us bring VR to you