5 p.m. on Wednesdays at the VDTC, October 24 - December 5 2007,
Patron
Dr. Reiner Haseloff, Saxony Anhalt Minister of Economics and Labor
Virtual Development, Testing and Training for Tomorrow's Technologies
Virtual technologies are indispensible for innovative companies’ daily work. For years, they have been an integral part of product and process development, e.g. in the aviation industry, power engineering, machinery manufacturing and the automotive industry. They replace physical objects and thus allow training highly complicated actions or safely experimenting in a computer-generated, interactive 3-D environment. These technologies have entered and are becoming increasingly established in medicine too. At the 4th Guest Lecture Series on virtual reality, top speakers from business and research will report on the use of VR and AR technologies in their organization, providing insights into applications of these technologies, e.g. in state-of-the-art product development or employee qualification
A brief tour through the Fraunhofer IFF Virtual Development and Training Centre VDTC after the presentations.
I would be delighted to see you at our Guest Lecture Series. Attendance is free of charge and registration is unecessaryy.
Schedule and Speakers
October 24, 2007
Virtual Design: Siemens' Prospects in Product Development
Prof. Albert Gilg, Head of Department of Virtual Design, Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Munich
November 7, 2007
How Does Virtual Reality Find its Way into the OR?
Prof. Dirk Bartz, Prof. of Computer Assisted Surgery, Innovation Center for Computer Assisted Surgery (ICCAS), School of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig
November 14, 2007
Networked Virtual Reality for Training and Educating National and International Navies
Heike Kissner, Project Manager, Ray Sono AG, Bremen and Dr. Marco Zibull, Development Engineer, Howardtswerke-Deutsche Werft GmbH, Kiel
Intensive education and systematic training of national and international navies is a fundamental prerequisite to mastering advance military equipment and using it as intended. A cost-aware approach is inconceivable without computerized training and virtual environments connected to it. Current technologies, significantly advanced by the entertainment industry in particular, facilitate realistically reproducing our environment and thus our clients’ training and educational scenarios in parts. This presentation will present current developments at HDW GmbH in collaboration with Ray Sono AG to train and educate national and international navies.
November 21, 2007
Virtual Reality in the Qualification of Technical Specialists
Paul Mecking and Jürgen Beuting, Technikcenter Primärtechnik, RWE Rhein-Ruhr Netzservice GmbH, Wesel
Among other things, Rhein-Ruhr Netzservice GmbH’s Technikcenter Primärtechnik formulates guidelines for conducting maintenance and works on continuously developing improvements on equipment and measurement and diagnostic instruments. Training and current information as well as technical employee support in the entire company assure the quality of maintenance work being performed. The use of virtual interactive models for this is new. The goal when creating interactive models of equipment is to create a comprehensive demonstration and educational infrastructure and to safeguard know-how and information and make it available.
November 28.11.2007
Augmented Reality as Support for Industrial Planung and Manufacturing Processes
Dr. Thomas Alt, CEO of metaio. Augmented Solutions GmbH, Munich
Dr. Alt, CEO of Metaio GmbH, will speak on the use of augmented reality in carmaking. metaio GmbH develops innovative AR solutions for many fields of application along the value added chain and thus enables its clients to realize their business potentials. Roivis, a new efficient interface between 3-D planning and plant engineering and commissioning, supports planning virtual components in a real plant.
December 5, 2007
Avior-VisIR: Night Vision Laser Projection System for Innovative, Realistic Night Vision Training on Simulators
Dr. Hubert Burggraf, Head of Department of Display and Laser Engineering, Simulation and Training Unit, Rheinmetall Defence Electronics GmbH, Bremen
The use of night vision goggles (NVG) is becoming ever more important for military missions and civilian operations since they are increasingly taking place at night. While darkness provides protection against being spotted, it also strongly limits one’s own visual reconnaissance. Therefore, operations teams employ devices that enhance visual perception in darkness.
The use of night vision goggles has to be practiced intensively in order to be able to deal with the idiosyncrasies of night vision images. Optimal and extremely realistic training can be achieved when the individuals practicing may also use their real night vision goggles in a simulator. Rheinmetall Defence Electronics developed its projection system AVIOR ® VisIR just for this to conduct optimal training with NVG. AVIOR ® VisIR is a new and unique laser projection system that directly simulation NVG so that pilots or soldiers may practice in the simulator exactly as they operate on missions later.
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Contact:
Michaela Schumann
Virtuelles Interaktives Training
Tel.: +49 391 4090 117
Fax: +49 391 4090 115