Sensics to Demonstrate Panoramic Head-Mounted Display at Leading West-Coast Virtual Reality Centers
High-resolution HMD and cutting-edge virtual reality applications will be showcased in a series of convenient, exclusive April 24th-27th events at the University of Washington, Stanford University, USC, and WorldViz in Santa Barbara.
Baltimore, MD– Apr 9th, 2007 – Sensics, the panoramic head-mounted display (HMD) company, announced today a series of invitation-only events at leading virtual reality centers on the West Coast. The events will offer an opportunity to experience a high-end panoramic head-mounted display from Sensics together with center-specific content, and will take place on Apr 24th in Seattle, on Apr 25th in Stanford, on April 26th in Los Angeles and on Apr 27th in Santa Barbara.
Commercial and academic organizations interested in attending one of these events should contact Sensics by phone at +1 (443) 927 9200 or on the Web at
http://www.sensics.com to schedule a visit. Participation at these demo events is at no cost, but advanced reservations are required.
At these events, Sensics will demonstrate the piSight™ 103-32b panoramic HMD, a popular model that is part of its upgradeable line of high-performance displays. The piSight 103-32b features an industry-leading field of view, resolution, and binocular overlap. It will be showcased with a variety of 3D virtual reality models representative of industrial design, training, entertainment, and other scenarios. In each city, additional center-specific virtual reality applications will also be on display. The following events will take place:
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Seattle, Washington, Apr 24th: Sensics will partner with the University of Washington Human Interface Technology Lab (
www.hitl.washington.edu), a multi-disciplinary research and development lab whose work centers around human interface technology. Lab researchers represent a wide range of departments from across the University of Washington campus, including engineering, medicine, education, social sciences, architecture and the design arts. Alongside Sensics, the HITL will be showing augmented reality applications, the VirtuSphere omnidirectional VR walking device, and two different approaches to haptic interaction.
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Stanford, California, Apr 25th: Sensics will partner with Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction lab (
http://vhil.stanford.edu), whose mission is to understand the dynamics and implications of interactions among people in immersive virtual reality simulations, and other forms of human digital representations in media, communication systems, and games. Alongside Sensics, the VHIL will be showing their experimental platforms for examining human social behavior in VR and other digital media.
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Marina Del Rey, California, Apr 26th: Sensics will be with The University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies (
www.ict.usc.edu), an award-winning research center that advances the state-of-the-art in virtual reality and immersive environments. The ICT is a University Affiliated Army Research Center (UARC) with the primary aim of developing VR simulation tools for general and tactical military training needs and brings together an interdisciplinary talent pool from the entertainment industry, academia and the military. In addition to developing specific military training applications, ICT VR application innovations have been applied to a broad range of civilian educational, training, mental health and rehabilitation initiatives.
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Santa Barbara, California, Apr 27th: Together with Sensics, WorldViz (
www.worldviz.com) will be demonstrating an interactive, immersive virtual reality system that can be viewed through the Sensics panoramic high-resolution head-mounted display. Users will navigate naturally by walking and looking around in a large space, being tracked by the WorldViz PPT X4 six degrees of freedom optical/inertial tracking system. Users will experience a variety of highly immersive interactive virtual environments and visual phenomena, among them several high-fidelity architectural and exterior/interior automotive models, each of them scripted and rendered with the WorldViz Vizard 3D software toolkit.
“Since its market introduction late last year, the panoramic and upgradeable HMD line from Sensics has generated substantial interest from commercial, academic and government environments.”, says Dr. Larry Brown, co-founder of Sensics. “In response to strong customer demand, we’ve organized this West-Coast tour to provide interested professional parties with a convenient opportunity to experience why panoramic, high-resolutions HMDs are generating such buzz, to catch up on the state of the art in the virtual reality, and to exchange views with academic and industry experts.”
Commercial and academic organizations interested in attending one of these events should contact Sensics by phone at +1 (443) 927 9200 or on the Web at
http://www.sensics.com to schedule a visit. Participation at these demo events is at no cost, but advanced reservations are required.
About Sensics
Sensics, Inc., offers professional-quality personal displays with panoramic field of view and high resolution, providing stunning image quality, unmatched immersion and realism. These breakthrough immersive displays are delivered either as lightweight, stereoscopic head-mounted displays, or as ultra-light display modules suitable for OEM/ODM use.. Unlike other products that feature narrow field of view, limited resolution or both, Sensics delivers products combining panoramic field of view and high definition displays. Dozens of upgradeable models are offered, designed to meet a wide range of performance and budget specifications. Sensics products are used worldwide to enable new and improved virtual reality applications for training, virtual prototyping, visualization and remote presence. For additional information, visit http://www.sensics.com
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