X3D Scenarios and Case Studies:
Real World Applications - Real World Solutions
X3D has a strong presence internationally and throughout many different industries. From healthcare science to oil exploration, X3D is being deployed for many important as well diverse uses. Our goal is to explore the very multi-faceted nature of X3D from an industry perspective.
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Penn State to visualize cave with VRML/X3D based software
Penn State has developed cave applications, targeting to facilitate the effective use of virtual reality (VR) techniques in design, construction and other disciplines. The aim was to develop immersive environments, where users can study all kinds of designs for different ranges with special visualization techniques.Penn State opted for VRML/X3D- based standard software, BSContact Stereo from Bitmanagement. More PR
The core technology of the cave applications is the 3D visualization software. BS contact Stereo software, completely meets the requirements of a high quality stereoscopic rendering, which is essential to create a fully immersive environment. BS Contact Stereo is also an interactive, real time and internet ready software, which above all showing the stereo effect without special eyeglasses.
These are visualization systems with two, three or more ceiling high projection walls, which obtain a realistic three-dimensional impression. The stereoscopic effect is generated by two projectors in each wall. Each single wall is synchronized with all others, whereby the position of the watching person is covered by a tracking system, so that the watchers point of view is adapted to his or her respective location and accordingly to his or her moves. By the immersive perception - the stereoscopic 3D view - product can be analyzed virtually, but with visible depth effect.
On-A-Slant Virtual Village
The Worldwide Web Instructional committee and the Archaeology Technologies Laboratory at North Dakota State University have reconstructed the On-A-Slant Mandan Indian Village archaeological site using the latest in X3D technology. The reconstruction is part of the On-A-Slant Virtual Village game that is used in junior high classrooms throughout the US to teach students about Plains Indian culture at the end of the 18th century. The Virtual Village employs state-of-the-art 3D computer visualizations that immerses students in the past, and provides them with the means to “travel through time” and “walk through” the site as it existed then. The virtual village game is delivered via Java Web Start and uses metadata nodes, the Layering component, and a customized version of Xj3D to produced a layered user-interface.
Fraunhofer demonstrates largest Stereo-Display to run full X3D Content
The Fraunhofer IGD provides a new cluster application deployment solution which allows X3D content to run on computer clusters without changes. An application developer can now build a high level interactive 3D application utilizing the full immersive profile of the ISO standard X3D including PointingSensors and Scripting.
Octaga Exporter with real time sun-shadow simulation
The former Airport of Oslo, Fornebu, now a national focus area for knowledge-based innovation is currently undergoing several new building projects. The township of Baerum, which administrates these projects, required a tool visualizing sun and shadow conditions for the area. Using X3D based visualization tools, Octaga offered a solution that Baerum could use to their advantage.
Bitmanagements BS Contact 3D Engine to support Collada
Bitmanagement will showcase at this years computer graphics premiere event - Siggraph, their newly developed support of the popular COLLADA 3D exchange format in their web based 3D rendering engine BS Contact. With this strategic move Bitmanagement extends their roadmap in real-time rendering engines for open standards in Web3D and Khronos consortia. http://www.web3d.org/images/uploads/casestudies/Collada_daz3d_sector15.jpghttp://www.web3d.org/images/uploads/casestudies/Collada_daz3d_sector15_180H.jpghttp://www.web3d.org/images/uploads/casestudies/Collada_daz3d_sector300x180.jpg
FMC wins prize for best exhibition with Octaga Panorama using X3D technology!
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 1000’s of tons and needed to show how their products look and operate.
Communication Services in 3D
Integrated Virtual Networks III, Inc. and Bitmanagement Software GmbH develop Social Interaction for the 3D web using X3D and VRML technology.
Earth Viewer - GIS for your business model
The visualisation approach was to develop an Earth Viewer derived from Geo-VRML using standard data files from satellite imaging and map data including raster and vector data enabling full 3D flyover and interactivity. The Earth Viewer can now be integrated in third party business models.
Configurator for online visualization of technical products
Bitmanagement Software GmbH and Airbus team up to develop X3D based configurators!
According to Martin Schwarz of Bitmanagement, configurators and Airbus is a very hot topic right now!
Visualization of Statistics in Virtual Reality
Computers often function merely as typewriters for the output of info in 2D. Printed diagrams show the consequences. To use it some results are often shown in a different factor. The outcome is a falsified representation and limited comparability with the results, which are presented in the right factor.