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From: Pierre duPont <pierre@division.demon.co.uk>
Subject: EVENT: Division at UNIFORUMAE94
Newsgroup: sci.virtual-worlds
Contact: Pierre duPont: Marketing Director, +44 454 615554
Title: Division, Matsushita and Silicon Graphics demonstrate
Advanced Interactive VR Experience at UNIFORUMAE94
Sub-title: VR System Simulates Advanced Living Environment
Utilizing Silicon Graphics Supercomputer
23 March 1994 - Division, the provider of professional virtual reality
systems, and Japan's Matsushita Electric Works (MEW), the world
leader in building construction, will demonstrate an advanced
interactive design experience with a virtual reality architectural
walk-through in a Japanese house. Users can experience this demo
at UNIFORUMAE94 in the World of the Future Pavilion, at the Moscone
Center, San Francisco, March 23-25.
MEW now uses virtual reality to simulate an advanced living
environment, simulating all features of the home including lighting,
heating and acoustics, saving immense design costs and time. The
demonstration, configured as a complete two-story Japanese house,
includes fully textured, detailed bedrooms, kitchen, bathrooms and
interconnecting stairs. With a head-mounted display and a 3D mouse,
users will be able to walk around the rooms and up the stairs to
different stories of the house. This complexity, detail and quality
of virtual reality has not yet been experienced in public.
The system being demonstrated uses a Silicon Graphics Onyx(tm)
RealityEngine2(tm) graphics supercomputer, which delivers the
world's fastest compute and graphics performance. In addition to this
particular application, Onyx systems are utilized in a wide variety of
applications ranging from flight simulation and automotive styling to
digital film production and interactive entertainment.
At the core of MatsushitaAEs simulated environment is Division's
distributed virtual reality software, dVS(tm), which provides a very
advanced software environment enabling work-group VR applications.
With this configuration, Matsushita is able to provide the highest
performance virtual reality experience for several people
simultaneously sharing and interacting within the same world.
Dr. Nomura, head of VR research at Matsushita, said, "With this
successful installation, Division has proven that it has the most
advanced VR systems in the world." Charles Grimsdale, DivisionAEs
MD added, "This demonstrates the rapidly growing power of VR
technology as a problem-solving tool in one of many demanding
applications. We've been able to use Division's open,
standards-based software architecture to rapidly develop this
demonstration."
"Division has developed one of the most advanced software and
hardware environments to enable a new level of realism and
interactivity in a virtual world," said Josh Larson-Mogal, Silicon
Graphics' manager of virtual reality/simulation products and markets.
"Virtual reality continues to move into mainstream visualization and
design applications, such as this simulated environment,
intensifying the demand for high-performance computational and
graphics computer systems."
Division is a member of the Division Group of companies, specializing
in providing virtual reality technology, products and services for
professional virtual reality applications. Headquartered in Bristol,
England, with offices in Chapel Hill, N.C., and Redwood City,
California, Division services a world-wide installed base of its
integrated VR systems.
Based in Tokyo, Japan, Matsushita Electric Works is a major supplier
of building materials and home furnishings including kitchens,
bathrooms, etc. This virtual reality development is being undertaken
by the A&I laboratory in Osaka, Japan, one of Japan's leading centers
of VR research.
Division is located at 19 Apex Court, Woodlands, Almondsbury, Bristol,
BS12 4JT, England, Tel: +44 454 615554. Its shares are traded on the
London Stock Exchange. dVS is a tradmark of Division.
Silicon Graphics is a registered trademark, and Onyx and RealityEngine
are trademarks of Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Note: Photographs are available. Contact Pierre duPont at +44 454
615554.
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email: dupontp@division.demon.co.uk
Pierre duPont phone: +44 454 615554
Marketing Director fax: +44 454 615532
Division Limited
19 Apex Court, Woodlands, Almondsbury, Bristol BS12 4JT UK