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Information for journalists and media representatives “Immersive Engineering Lab”
The Immersive Engineering Lab is a modern working and presentation environment that allows immersive 3D displays for detailed, accurately rendered real-time visualization. The laboratory’s large media wall means it is ideally equipped for collaborative, multimedia work sessions. This combination facilitates a unique, seamless working environment for complex planning and design tasks in the fields of engineering, technology management and design. Fraunhofer IAO’s research and industrial partners use the laboratory for a broad variety of applications:
• Developing products with virtual prototypes • Supporting the integration of product development and production planning • Developing virtual urban planning, virtual construction processes, and virtual building
inspection • Creating virtual spaces where architectural, urban planning, and transport concepts
are brought to life
The main component of the laboratory is a high-resolution 3D projection system with a 5.5-meter-long and 3.4-meter-high powerwall and a built-in four-wall cave (Cave Automatic Virtual Environment). Interaction takes place using the latest technologies such as multi-touch displays, gesture control, and 3D real-time positioning systems. Alongside these virtual reality (VR) applications, it is also possible to display 2D media content (presentations, Office applications, plans) on the projection walls via state-of-the-art meeting room infrastructure. Fraunhofer IAO uses the Immersive Engineering Lab to implement, evaluate and optimize exemplary use cases of how to incorporate virtual reality into company processes. This includes a high degree of integration of other technologies used in mixed reality (MR), augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). As a high-end VR environment, the Immersive Engineering Lab is part of a holistic system in which technologies such as VR glasses or 3D display-based VR systems play an important role. Further information: https://www.es.iao.fraunhofer.de/de/labors/immersive-engineering-lab.html Our contacts for the Immersive Engineering Lab:
Günter Wenzel Fraunhofer IAO Virtual Environments Nobelstraße 12, 70569 Stuttgart Phone +49 711 970-2244 [email protected]
Philipp Westner Fraunhofer IAO Virtual Environments Nobelstraße 12, 70569 Stuttgart Phone +49 711 970-2193 [email protected]
Photo material The following photos may be used free of charge as part of reports on Fraunhofer IAO’s “Immersive Engineering Lab” initiative. Requests for high-resolution images should be sent to [email protected]. All photos used must be accompanied by the appropriate source reference, and we kindly request a copy of the published material. The photos are to be used exclusively for editorial reporting and under no circumstances in advertising or sales materials. Further circulation, copying, editing or use on websites that is not for the purposes of editorial reporting is not permitted. Immersive Engineering Lab (1): Multilateral stereo projection environments also allow groups of decision-makers to visit virtual site models together.
Bernd Müller © Fraunhofer IAO
Immersive Engineering Lab (2): Overlapping VR scenes and 2D content offer ideal support for sessions and provide all the information needed for decision-making.
Bernd Müller © Fraunhofer IAO
Immersive Engineering Lab (3): Intense, high-definition stereo images are projected onto the back of the display wall. The fact that the projector’s residual heat is used for heating the building serves as an example of the meticulous planning that went into the lab.
Bernd Müller © Fraunhofer IAO
Immersive Engineering Lab (4): Using markers on the viewer’s 3D glasses, precise optical positioning permits to-scale overlapping of the real viewer with the virtual scene.
Bernd Müller © Fraunhofer IAO
Immersive Engineering Lab (5): Multilateral stereo projection environments enable a dia-logue at eye level. Specialists and laypeople experience a new culture of communication.
© Uwe Völkner | Fotoagentur FOX
Immersive Engineering Lab (6): In a virtual planning session, an installation’s shift supervisor provides the planning team with valuable information about optimizing processes.
© Uwe Völkner | Fotoagentur FOX