Iowa State Virtual Reality Room Reaches 100 Million Pixels
Mechdynes Fakespace display uses NVIDIA GPUs
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CLARA, CA, Oct 23, 2007 - Iowa State University’s “C6,” the country’s first
six-sided virtual reality room, has been redesigned to take cyber battles to
new extremes with advanced visual computing. The C6, a 100-million pixel
virtual experience engineered by Mechdynes’ Fakespace display division,
incorporates NVIDIA Quadro® professional graphics processing units (GPUs) in
the improved visualization center, which operates at more than 16 times the
resolution of a typical immersive room and more than double the resolution
of the five-sided, 43-million pixel room also created by Mechdyne.
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| UAV application in the Iowa State
University C6 VRAC. Photo courtesy Brett Schnepf. |
NVIDIA Quadro GPUs are transforming large-scale graphics at advanced
visualization centers throughout the world—the C6 virtual-reality
environment at Iowa State University being a spectacular example of how
advanced professional graphics technology is playing a key role in research
and development across a variety of disciplines.
“Highly realistic graphics are a key component to the incredible realism
displayed in the new C6 virtual environment,” said James Oliver, director of
Iowa State’s Virtual Reality Applications Center (VRAC) and professor of
mechanical engineering at the university. “NVIDIA Quadro graphics deliver a
high-resolution experience that is unmatched. The difference between the old
solution and the new 100-million-pixel experience is like putting on your
glasses in the morning.”
According to Matt Szymanski, VP and product manager at Mechdyne, “The
NVIDIA Quadro product was the perfect fit for the functionality and
performance that a system of this magnitude requires. This is not an
off-the-shelf display, and we had to work closely with NVIDIA’s engineers to
push the technology to the very limits of what could be delivered.”
Iowa State University’s C6 project, which is supported by the U.S. Air
Force Office of Scientific Research, incorporates a Hewlett-Packard computer
cluster featuring 96 NVIDIA Quadro GPUs, 24 Sony digital projectors, an
eight-channel audio system and ultrasonic motion tracking technology.
For more details about NVIDIA Quadro solutions, please visit
www.nvidia.com/quadro.
NVIDIA Corporation
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graphics processor technologies. The Company creates innovative,
industry-changing products for computing, consumer electronics, and mobile
devices. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA and has offices
throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas. For more information, visit
www.nvidia.com.
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