Virtalis (
www.virtalis.com), one of the world’s leading virtual-reality (VR) companies, has released Version 1.2 of its Visionary Render software (VisRen).
Technical director Andrew Connell, said: “I am exceptionally proud of what the Virtalis R&D team has managed to pack into Version 1.2.
"We made improvements right across VisRen’s usability and functionality, from increasing the number and diversity of controllers to adding gesture recognition and post-processing effects. In further developing our VR software, we are grateful to our beta-site testers Raytheon, AMRC, Rolls-Royce and BAE.”
Visionary Render allows users to access and experience a real-time, interactive and immersive VR environment created from huge 3-D data sets.
Users can work alone, in small groups, or collaborate with distant colleagues in a common virtual environment to perform detailed design reviews, rehearse in-depth training tasks, validate maintenance procedures or verify assembly and manufacturing processes.
Rab Scott, head of VR and Simulation at AMRC and Nuclear AMRC, said: “The changes made to VisRen V1.2 respond to the demands of industry. The ability to mark up a virtual model for later review and discussion is a positive and powerful step forward.
V1.2 features new tracking capabilities and runs both faster and smoother with noticeably more artistic rendering, giving a rendering capability that is unusual in the sphere of engineering.
“With a more-intuitive GUI and restructured interfaces, VisRen V1.2 acts as a combination of an MCAD package with VR software.
“The capacity that VisRen V1.2 has to connect the virtual scene to The Internet of Things and Big Data sources has the potential to open up a whole new world for us.”