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Silicon Graphics plans 'visionarium' in India

With visual and experiential computing at work, a visionarium allows product design teams to substantially reduce time-to-insight to accelerate the analysis, design, engineering and testing aspects of a product, said Silicon Graphics Systems India Limited Managing Director Ashok Desai.

Manufacturing giants, automobile companies, construction organisations and big projects will particularly benefit from such a reality centre. The members will be able to use this technological marvel which will translate directly into a strategic competitive advantage.

The visionarium is a highly specialised micro-theatre for experiential computing where users can visualise, interact and feel computer generated three dimensional models and immerse themselves in a virtual world of their futuristic products or projects.

The visionarium at Mountain View, California, is a $3.5 million investment and houses a 160 degree vertical, spherically curved screen that is 25 feet wide, 8.5 feet high and 11.5 feet deep. It has a surround audio and wide-screen projectors.

Desai said that decision makers can virtually experience what their products would look like, sound like and feel like at the concept stage itself and long before manufacturing.

Changes can be incorporated in simulated environments, he said. Visionarium provides customers with sound-augmented walk-throughs, demonstration of products, plans and concepts with unparalleled realism.

The centre also removes major hurdles in visualisation of complex situations such as those which involve danger, impracticality or high expense often encountered in physical environments.

Desai points out that the country is expected to witness and unprecedented infrastructure build-up. Telecom, oil, steel, power, ports, airports, and highways are examples. Global competitors are fiercely battling Indian giants in the automobiles and manufacturing markets. The pressure on companies to deliver cost-effective products has never been so high. India has so many long-felt needs that could be satisfied by a powerful tool like the visionarium.

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