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Lockheed Martin has installed a Virtalis Active Wall 3-D visualisation system (
www.virtalis.com) at its Ampthill, Bedfordshire facility, which fits mission systems to armoured fighting vehicles. This has been used in a major Land Vehicle Programme review.
Ryan Neal, a research engineer at Ampthill, says: “Along with our engineers and business development people, our customer — the Ministry of Defence — was able to prove out views of the 3-D model through visualisation.
This meant that, instead of producing detailed performance reports over several months, we were able to view a 3-D mock-up of the model, using Virtalis’s Visionary Render software. In effect, words were replaced by interactive 3-D pictures.”
Visionary Render software, which has been available since the beginning of last year, allows users to experience a real-time interactive and immersive virtual-reality environment created from large 3-D data sets.
Users can work alone or in small groups to perform detailed design reviews, rehearse training tasks, validate maintenance procedures or verify assembly and manufacturing processes. They can also collaborate with distant colleagues in a common virtual environment.