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 Virtalis has supplied VR hardware that will aid a new research programme at Edinburgh’s Napier University. The specialist hardware, a Liberty VR tracking system from Polhemus, is the first of its kind in the UK.
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 AN AGREEMENT has been signed between FCS Robotics and Virtalis awarding the exclusive distribution of the FCS HapticMASTER in the UK to Virtalis. Haptics bring the sense of touch into virtual environments.
David Clark, sales director at Virtalis, explained: “This distributorship represents the missing piece of the jigsaw of our force feedback products. The FCS HapticMASTER gives real industrial weight haptics and will provide our customers with the power to closely simulate the weight and force found in all manner of tasks. With a maximum force of 250 Newtons, the FCS HapticMASTER can be used for simulation, training and ergonomic analysis.”
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The Virtalis Group announces an alliance with Visionmax International Limited in the visualisation marketplace.
Virtalis technical director, Andrew Connell, commented: “We will be offering the Visionmax product line as part of our portfolio of visualisation products. We hope to build on the success of StereoWorks by integrating elements of Visionmax into our systems and vice versa. This is a bilateral agreement, so we will also be adding our technological expertise to some of Visionmax’s larger projects.”
Virtalis launched StereoWorks and StereoTools two months ago and since then the systems have excited much interest in the engineering research and entertainment sectors, with several contracts already announced and others in the pipeline. The StereoWorks range consists of the latest stereo viewing hardware coupled with Virtalis’s own specialist software suite, StereoTools. The basic system offers SXGA resolution, has two small projectors, a seven foot screen and a compact PC image generator with wireless control. |
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 The multimillion selling videogame ‘The Getaway’ developed by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe’s Team Soho and exclusive to Playstation®2 incorporates advanced Virtual Reality (VR) motion capture techniques from Virtalis.
The player controls the movements of the in-game actors. Their moves are captured via real-time sensors which each feedback to the computer their relative position in space. This use of motion capture has helped to create the high level of realism which many believe is the secret to the game’s success.
Team Soho has approached Virtalis to help capture hand movement as well. Andrew Connell, technical director at Virtalis explained: “We have customised the 18 sensor CyberGlove from Immersion to allow it to co-habit battery power and bandwidth with MotionStar, a wireless 16 sensor body tracker from Ascension. This is a real challenge because 34 sensors covering a relatively small area generate an enormous amount of data. In order to transform raw data into merged images, Kaydara Motion Builder software is used.
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VIRTALIS’S communications, training and defence specialist, Prof. Bob Stone, has just been made an Honorary Cossack for his services to international Virtual Reality (VR) and his help in bringing the technology to Russia.
The ceremony formed part of a series of celebrations leading up to the tenth anniversary of the foundation of the Novocherkassk Simulation Centre. The team from Virtalis, headed by Prof. Stone, was instrumental in introducing the then emerging technology of VR to the Cosmonaut Training Programme when they created a VR model of the Mir Space Station. In the intervening years, they have kept in touch and the exchange of ideas continues.
Prof. Stone explained: “To be following in the footsteps of former honorary Cossacks like Winston Churchill is a great honour. The ceremony was deeply impressive, with dancing, singing and speeches peppered with numerous toasts. My thanks must go to Prof. Shukshunov who proposed my honorary Cossackship.”
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