360° Immersive Stereoscopic Theater

Mines Rescue Service – NSW are on the cutting edge for virtual reality training in mining safety. They have been providing services to help the mining industry manage risk and operate safely for almost 90 years.

Virtual Reality Training

Mines Rescue’s state-of-the-art virtual reality training facilities are located at four sites across New South Wales, Australia. Each site comprises of a 360° stereoscopic theater, large immersive curved screen display, and half-domes displays. These facilities enable Mines Rescue to recreate various hazard scenarios in an interactive but safe environment.

ImmersaView are pleased to supply Sol7 software, which provides geometric correction and soft-edge blending for these facilities. Sol7 enables Mines Rescue to seamlessly use multiple training applications from different graphics engines without the need to integrate with each solution, ensuring that they can focus on the best solutions for their trainees.

The Technology

The 360° Stereoscopic Theater provides a fully immersive 3D experience. 12 Projectors are combined over a cylindrical 3D display surface, measuring a staggering 10 meters in diameter with a 4 meter height. The theater offers space for groups of participants at a time. The display is driven by a cluster of commodity PCs.

The curved screen displays consist of up to three edge-blended projectors with amphitheater style seating for large groups of participants. This display can be driven by a single commodity PC. The half-domes feature a console with standing room for a small group of operators.

Benefits

Sol7 makes use of the commodity hardware to provide application independent high-performance, real-time geometric correction and soft-edge blending.