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Vis Concept 3.0 software presents conceptual designs as full-size virtual prototypes that can be viewed in 3D virtual reality setting using special 3D glasses. It lets manufacturers experience, evaluate and explore product designs in realistic virtual environment. Users can present high-resolution, photo-realistic designs on desktop computers or on large screens up to 8 ft high within virtual reality environments known as CAVEs, PowerWalls, and Desks.
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EDS Launches Vis Concept 3.0
With Vis Concept 3.0, a Teamcenter product, users can present high-resolution, three-dimensional designs to create products that more closely meet customers' needs.
DETROIT, Mich. - EDS today announced the release of Vis Concept 3.0, a Teamcenter product from the company's PLM Solutions line of business.
EDS made the announcement in conjunction with the Detroit SAE 2002 World Congress, March 4-7, the largest automotive original equipment service, parts and components exhibition in the world.
Vis Concept is a software solution used to present conceptual designs as full-size virtual prototypes, and enables manufacturers to experience, evaluate and explore products designs in a realistic virtual environment. Vis Concept also allows designs to be presented to a wide range of prospects and focus groups in the concept phase, helping to create a product that satisfies the target market.
"Vis Concept offers a 1:1 scale immersive virtual reality environment," said Chuck Grindstaff, president, PLM Products, EDS PLM Solutions. "This environment fosters innovation by allowing users to actively work with their designs, to quickly review and evaluate multiple concepts early in the product design phase before designs are fully committed and changes become cost-prohibitive. Through this process, manufacturers can improve their ability to bring better products to market faster."
Using Vis Concept, users can present high-resolution, photo-realistic designs on their desktop computers or on large screens up to eight feet in height within special virtual reality environments known as CAVEs, PowerWalls, and Desks. Physical prototypes are replaced with realistic, interactive 1:1 scale virtual prototypes that can be viewed in a three-dimensional virtual reality setting using special 3D glasses. Vis Concept is CAD neutral, supporting a wide range of industry CAD products through a Direct Model (.JT) common data interface.
About Vis Concept 3.0
Along with notable improvements in speed and overall performance, other enhancements in Vis Concept 3.0 include:
*Multi-pass textures - allows multiple combinations of environment maps and textures to be applied to an object. This enhances the realism of the user's virtual experience.
*Bump mapping texture-blending method - used to model realistic rough surfaces on objects.
*3D text primitives - allows users to generate 3D text and place it anywhere in a 3D display.
*Video display - enables existing electronically recorded videos to be displayed with immersive playback controls.
*Behaviour controlled sounds - allows users to add sounds to their virtual reality experience.
Availability
Vis Concept 3.0 is fully supported on Hewlett-Packard and SGI hardware platforms and will be available in Q1 2002. For more information, call 877/342-5847.
About EDS
EDS, the leading global services company, provides strategy, implementation and hosting for clients managing the business and technology complexities of the digital economy. EDS brings together the world's best technologies to address critical client business imperatives. It helps clients eliminate boundaries, collaborate in new ways, establish their customers' trust and continuously seek improvement. EDS, with its management-consulting subsidiary, A.T. Kearney, serves the world's leading companies and governments in 58 countries. EDS reported revenues of $21.5 billion in 2001. The company's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: EDS) and the London Stock Exchange. Learn more at www.eds.com.
Vis Concept is a trademark of EDS or its subsidiaries in the United States and in other countries. All other trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks belong to their respective holders.
Vis Concept 3.0, a Teamcenter Product Frequently Asked Questions
What is Vis Concept?
Vis Concept is a scalable, complete virtual prototyping software solution that enables designers to present high-resolution, realistic designs on workstations or in immersive environments such as CAVEs, Powerwalls and Desks. Physical prototypes are replaced with photorealistic, interactive, 1:1 scale virtual prototypes. Vis Concept allows users to experience, evaluate and explore product designs for formal or ad hoc reviews, dramatically reducing product design time and the need for physical prototypes. Vis Concept combines 3D, 2D and text data to create interactive real-time virtual prototypes with an easy-to-use "GUI interface." Geographically dispersed teams can collaborate while providing decision-makers with a clear vision of the intended design.
What is immersive?
Immersive is a form of the word immerse, which means to submerge or deeply absorb. When used in the context of Vis Concept, it means that the user and the products appear to be immersed in the virtual 3-dimensional environment that is created through the use of the Vis Concept software as its displayed in immersive environments such as CAVEs, Powerwalls and Desks.
What are CAVEs, Powerwalls and Desks?
A CAVE provides a multi-sided display that typically consists of four display panels (three side walls and floor). This type of display can be used to simulate the interior of a vehicle or other environments where the user will see uninterrupted panoramic and peripheral views.
A Powerwall enables large-scale and 1:1 visualization for group presentations and collaborative design reviews. The walls come in various sizes. A desk is a completely portable large-scale visualization system.
What is the business value of Vis Concept?
Vis Concept can reduce the number of physical prototypes needed during the product development process. Physical prototypes can be replaced by virtual prototypes that are full size in scale and photo realistic. Prototypes can be extremely expensive - a full-scale clay model costs over $100,000 and full-scale aerospace models run in the millions of dollars. By replacing physical prototypes with virtual prototypes, companies can save money in this process.
Vis Concept can also help speed a product to market. Direct integration with major CAD and CAID programs reduces product design time by allowing designers to immediately make experience-based decisions. Interactive virtual prototypes can be assembled in a fraction of the time it takes to create an equivalent physical prototype. This time savings in the design process equates to being able to bring a product to market quicker.
In addition to these time savings, Vis Concept can also provide additional insight into a product design by allowing the user to look inside and articulate the digital model in ways not possible with Physical Prototypes. This added flexibility allows the designer to more clearly communicate the design and present it to a wide range of prospects and focus groups in the concept phase thus helping to create a product that satisfies the target market.
Vis Concept promotes collaborative design, enabling geographically dispersed sites to join in design review, providing enterprise-wide visualization that results in saving time and cost. Vis Concept allows dynamic switching of focus between sites and access to each site's display configuration to ensure effective viewing among disparate hardware systems.
What hardware platforms are supported by Vis Concept?
Vis Concept 3.0 is fully supported on Hewlett-Packard and SGI workstation platforms. The Layout module of Vis Concept is supported on NT. Layout is the area of the product where presentations are created. The presentation portion of Vis Concept will be supported on NT in the future as advancements are made in NT's display capabilities.
Who is the primary target audience(s) for Vis Concept?
The primary Industries for Vis Concept are:
*Automotive
*Aerospace
* Heavy equipment (mining, agricultural, construction)
*Military
Vis Concept's blend of highly realistic rendering capabilities, 1:1 display and 2D/video/3D presentation support allow for a wide range of users.
* Styling and concept designers interested in the most vivid communication of their design directions or who want to collaborate with other groups in the development of a design.
* Engineers performing general design reviews or program management and want a single, straightforward tool to bring their data together in a managed presentation that can be shared with other global sites.
* Factory engineers looking to view their virtual factories at 1:1 to better understand how humans will work within the environment and to plan work cells and manufacturing lines.
* Packaging engineers interested in a 1:1 experience of their data
* Engineers studying turbulence, crash and stamping FAE/CFD results that want to see their data in 3D and easily manipulate it.
* Human factors engineers who want to experience their data at 1:1 rather than through the desktop.
* Showroom displays for sales efforts
* Marketing displays for trade shows and high-level presentations
What is the cost of Vis Concept?
Vis Concept is made up of three modules:
* Layout - a GUI-based tool for creating interactive virtual prototypes on desktop workstations. Presentations can be viewed on the desktop or in 1:1 immersive scale.
* Presenter - is used to display a presentation on a display device. Presenter supports a wide range of large-scale display environments and provides immersive interfaces for scene interaction.
* Conference - enables collaborative interaction with multiple Vis Concept sites.
Vis Concept is priced according to usage. If your installation consists of rendering hardware that uses multiple pipes (such as SGI's Onyx or HP's SV6), Vis Concept will cost more than on a low end desktop system. Exact pricing should be discussed with a sales representative.
Who are some of your clients currently using Vis Concept?
The following customers are using Vis Concept today:
* Opel
* Mack Trucks
* Industrial Technology Centre (ITC) - Manitoba, Canada
* Lockheed Martin
* Boeing
* Sandia National Labs
