Process

A number of companies are currently using VR Virtual Reality software to integrate multiple engineering disciplines in a single, virtual environment. In this environment customer, engineer, suppliers, managers, technicians, and operators interact with the product and process design and communicate much more effectively. The ability to rapidly generate multiple design alternatives helps achieve the optimal design configuration and benefits the customer by minimising engineering and production cost.

One example of a cave application is virtual automobile development, which uses 3d visualisation to help automotive designers and engineers evaluate product range without building physical prototypes. The computer images consist of ray traced imagery and dynamically rendered geometric surfaces so viewers can have the simulated sensation of walking around then sitting inside the car. Which, it must be remembered, is actually only a computer image.