Results from the EU supported project HUNOROB are coming alive.
Please visit: http://www.virca.hu/
Turn up the volume, sit back and enjoy the video J
(What you see is a new programming and visualisation environment where the operator can freely move between reality and virtual reality, seamless and in real time)
Pillars of the VirCA Paradigm
VirCA provides a platform where users can build, share and manipulate 3D content, and collaboratively interact with real-time processes in a 3D context, while the participating hardware and software devices can be spatially and/or logically distributed and connected together via IP network. For example, engineers and researchers from different countries can put a mobile robot and an obstacle avoidance software module together to test and tune it in a semi-virtual manner. They do not have to move their devices to the same place and take effort in the system integration. The VirCA 3D virtual reality component can work together with the cutting edge stereoscopic 3D display technologies including the immersive 3D CAVE systems.
The 3D content and processes in VirCA can be synchronized with the real world, which allows the combination of reality and virtuality in the collaboration arena. This allows VirCA users to virtually interact not only with other users, but also with existing, remotely operated hardware and software, such as robots, sensors, or actuators. This type of semi-virtual interaction allows the users to build distributed systems consisting of real and virtual parts at the same time.
Industrial Engineering dept. at NUC is participating in the development of VirCA through the HUNOROB project with 6 international partners as well as the established ITM laboratory (Norwegian-Hungarian laboratory that represents a strong link between institutes related to research and industrial applications)
Interested?
Contact: Bjørn Solvang
Industrial Engineering dept.
Narvik University College
tel. +47 76 96 62 27
e-mail: bjs@hin.no
Supported by: A grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA Financial Mechanism and the Hungarian National Development Agency
