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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Coperion 3D - A Virtual Factory on the Tabletop
The Coperion Group is planning and producing plants and systems for the plastics industry. The presentation at Coperion’s booth at K Fair in Dusseldorf consisted of Fraunhofer IGD’s multi-touch table and an impressive 8-meter wide high definition projection mirroring the table’s image. With this application Coperion demonstrated their core-competencies to the markets and complex processes in a plant for bulk material handling via Virtual Reality. InstantPlayer and InstantCluster were used to render the interactive real time 3D visualisation.
Bitmanagement visualizes automatically constructed 3D cities on the web with BS Contact GEO
A quality leap hand in hand with a substantial cost reduction can be realized today in the 3D city model domain. Textured 3D models of complete cities at a resolution of 4 inch (10 cm) per pixel can be constructed automatically within days and visualized with the highly performing BS Contact GeoVRML/X3D viewer interactively on the web. 3D city models can be used integrated in many applications ranging from online search engines to embedded automotive navigation- and entertainment systems.
Bitmanagement offers a digital factory tool program for Tarakos
A digital factory solution offered by Tarakos, Germany, based on the visualization software of Bitmanagement. This digital factory solution has three software tools VR builder, VR control and VR viewer. VR builder is a software tool for 3D configurators and time-based simulation of conveying, material flow and storage/warehouse equipment using the virtual reality (VR) technology. The program is used to visualize and analyze plants. Its special feature is the simple and quick usage of virtual, animated 3D scenes by users with no special programming or 3D designing skills because of parametric and animated 3D models available.
METAIO brings Web3D innovative technology to E-commerce using Bitmanagement’s BS Contact
Augmented reality and interactive Web3D innovative technology brings a whole new dimension to E-commerce, superimposing products directly on to a photo of the shopper’s personal environment, on the right scale, appropriate to context and interactively.
As Internet shopping becomes increasingly popular, the number of products, services, product variants and suppliers are growing too. This makes it more and more confusing for shoppers and harder for sellers to stand out from the crowd. But it is possible using Web3D technology.
This is where augmented reality and interactive Web3D comes in. This innovative technology brings a whole new dimension to E-commerce, superimposing products directly on to a photo of the shopper’s personal environment, on the right scale, appropriate to context and interactively. Let’s say you want to buy new furniture. With augmented reality you can see how it looks in your home alongside your existing decor and try out different combinations of colours and variants before you make a purchase. This product is developed by Metaio based on BS Contact of Bitmanagement.
ALIVE, University of Southern Queensland - The Phoenix Challenge
ALIVE created “The Phoenix Challenge” using Flux Studio, Maya and Rawkee and implemented Ajax3D to keep track of the player’s score and to interact with their database of objects. The player’s objective is to make their way around the campus picking up objects which affect their STRENGTH, SMARTS and STRESS. There is a time limit to complete each level. X3D provided the ability to create a browser based game which students can find by following a URL and after installing the Flux Player, do not require other software on their system and can view other X3D scenes the ALIVE team create. The game can be played by visiting http://www.alivex3d.org/challenge Viewers can access this password protected game with the username: guest and the password: guest
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