LunarStudio Virtual Reality Support

LunarStu­dio was recently approached by a con­struc­tion com­pany in the Boston area to see if we could develop 3D scenes for their immer­sive vir­tual real­ity sys­tem. I would like to announce that we are able to develop 3D scenes for this plat­form. The con­struc­tion com­pany is using soft­ware and hard­ware from a com­pany called World Viz. Their soft­ware sys­tem is called Vizard. They also make a vir­tual real­ity head­sets and motion track­ing sys­tems. World Viz is a pio­neer and leader in this field of systems.

Here is an exam­ple from World Viz of their Vir­tual Real­ity system:

For those that are unfa­mil­iar with immer­sive vir­tual real­ity sys­tems, they are often com­pro­mised of head­sets that you can wear and look around as if you were in an actual 360-degree space. With their motion track­ing sys­tem, you have the added flex­i­bil­ity of actu­ally walk­ing around with the head­set in an imag­i­nary set­ting. Another option is a CAVE (Cave Auto­matic Vir­tual Envi­ron­ment) sys­tem in which the walls sur­round­ing you are dis­play mon­i­tors or involve pro­jec­tions to make it seem like you are stand­ing in a 3D setting.

Here is an exam­ple of a CAVE sys­tem that was devel­oped by iCube:

These sys­tems are often being used for research and devel­op­ment in the fol­low­ing fields:

• Archi­tec­ture
• Auto­mo­tive
• Defense
• Engi­neer­ing
• Neu­ro­science
• Sci­ence
• Train­ing

In research­ing World Viz’s sys­tem, I spent about a day famil­iar­iz­ing myself with their tech­nol­ogy and train­ing resources. I also spent a sig­nif­i­cant amount of time on the phone and via email with their sup­port per­son­nel. They explained that a sys­tem can cost roughly $40,000 US. depend­ing on which fea­tures you would choose to add. The major­ity of their pro­ceeds comes from uni­ver­sity lab­o­ra­to­ries which mostly con­cern them­selves with neu­ro­sciences and brain imag­ing. Another big field for them is that of defense and mil­i­tary train­ing. LunarStu­dio would be look­ing to help advance the field of vir­tual real­ity con­cern­ing archi­tec­ture with their sys­tems by help­ing cre­ate these 3D envi­ron­ments and mod­els. We also spe­cial­ize in 360-degree panoramic pho­tographs at our sis­ter web­site, HDR­Source.

For more infor­ma­tion regard­ing LunarStudio’s vir­tual real­ity solu­tions and ser­vices, please visit our web­site at:

http://www.lunarstudio.com