Why Virtual Reality?
Would you like to realistically simulate your manufacturing scenarios? Or interact with your designs before they are physically manufactured? Do you need to add a human element to fully evaluate your product? Do you need to remove a human from a potentially dangerous situation? Our VR applications and expertise combined with our engineering background provide a powerful partner for implementing cost-effective visualization solutions or services.

How can VR be applied?

• Manufacturing simulations: Realistically model, evaluate, and analyze designs and processes prior to manufacturing.
• Training simulations: Create training simulations to give your employees real world experience for critical operations before things get critical. Capture and identify mistakes and safety concerns with ergonomic evaluations.
• Ergonomic and safety analysis: Perform ergonomic and safety studies with digital human models. Identify potential back-injury conditions. Simulate work environments to determine costly design interferences and potential safety concerns.
• Virtual prototyping: Evaluate arm / leg reach?, line-of-sight flaws, and object interaction. Perform design reviews, make real-time design decisions, and even modify the design interactively.

What features does VR offer? 

• Camera based modeling: Quickly create 3D environments using our proprietary 3D camera technology.
• Digital human modeling: Evaluate human motions and joint loads. Create and model different human shapes and sizes.
• Path planning: Capture and store assembly paths and motions. Create swept volumes.
• Assembly simulations & Interactive engineering: Interact with your designs the way they were intended to be assembled. Make design modifications just as you would in your CAD system.
• CAD interoperability: Interact with your CAD application to capture design improvement from the virtual environment.
• Distributed collaboration: Share designs between locations in real-time, create an environment where distributed users can collaborate in the same virtual location.
• Collision detection: Determine when collisions have occurred and where.
• Physics based modeling: Watch objects interact with each other, just as they would in real situations.
• Constraint based behavior: Use constraints to define how an object behaves and imply how the object should be used.

Why IES?

• Ability: We provide immersive, desktop, and CAD based VR solutions with HMDs, 3D monitors, and a variety of inputs from mouse & keyboard to haptic devises to tracking systems. We can quickly create 3D environments and models using cameras or models from any CAD or visualization application. In addition to our ability to implement onsite solutions, we can provide access to our hardware as a service.
• Experience: Additionally, the President and Vice President are tenured Professors at Washington State University, where they head one of the top Virtual Reality labs in the world. As pioneers in the application of immersive technologies to engineering, they have published over 50 peer-reviewed publications and are internationally recognized.

Expertise

• Languages: C/C++/C#, VB, Java, MFC, ATL, COM, DCOM, CORBA, WorldToolkit, OpenGL, OpenGL Optimizer, Performer, DirectX, Java3D, VRML, IV, STL, STEP, IGES
• Graphic & animation tools: Adobe Photoshop, GIMP, 3D Studio Max, Maya, Blender
• Hardware tools: Immersion Corporation’s CyberGrasp, CyberForce, CyberGlove, & Haptic Workstation, SensAble PHANTOM, Ascension Flock of Birds, InterSense Tracking System, Virtual Research Systems V8 HMD, eMagine HMD, 3D Energy auto-stereoscopic display, CrystalEyes VR Stereographic Shutter Glasses display

Why contact IES?
If you think you can benefit from a Virtual Reality Solution or Service and want to explore this option further, please contact us. We look forward to the opportunity to meet you and help you visualize a better product or process.