FMC wins prize for best exhibition with Octaga Panorama using X3D technology!
The Challenge
FMC Technologies needed a way to stand out from the myriad of exhibitors and draw people to their booth at the worlds biggest oil and gas exhibition the OTC07 in Houston. FMC produces complex subsea oil and gas equipment weighing 1000s of tonnes and needed to show how their products look and work.
The Solution
FMC Technologies chose Octaga to create an interactive 3D panoramic cinema. Octaga used 3 clustered PCs with the X3D based Octaga Panorama viewer and 3 projectors to create a seamless 10x2 meters wide screen image. The underwater 3D world contained highly detailed engineering models and used several pixel shaders to visualize special effects among these a paper and pencil look to illustrate project sketches, and fluid effects for realistic flow of oil and gas in pipes. Aided by Octaga, FMC Technologies won the ֓best booth of the year award 2007.