Personal Space Station™ (PSS™) - 3D immersive workstation
The PSS is a co-located 3D visualization and 3D interaction workstation, a VR sytem that enables the user to interact with the virtual world in a direct and intuitive way. All interactive 3D tasks are realized directly by using graspable input devices while traditional 2D interaction tools like mouse and keyboard ensure seamless integration of 2D and 3D tasks. The PSS is a complete flexible turnkey virtual reality solution.
The PSS will allow you to interact with images in ways you've only imagined!
The PSS is virtual reality made easy.
The PSS explained
The user looks at the screen via a mirror. This enables the user to bring his hands into the same environment as the virtual 3D-objects without interrupting the visual image. The user is invited to grab, hold and interact with the data. To facilitate interaction highly accurate wireless optical tracking is used. Interaction controllers are used to position an object in 3D with six degrees of freedom.
6DOF optical motion tracking
The Personal Space Tracker (PST) is a sub mm accurate and fast six degrees of freedom optical tracking system.
Some advantages:
- arbitrary objects can be turned into tracked objects
- no calibration
- robust against electric and magnetic interferences
- wireless passive targets that do not require batteries
- easy training of custom built tracking devices
A choice of high resolution 2D/3D screens
The PSS is available in a wide variety of stereoscopic technologies and screen sizes. We work with most OEM's of stereoscopic screens to ensure the best possible screen size and stereo technology.
| Size | Stereo Technology | Resolution |
|---|---|---|
| 22" (16:9) | Polarization | 2D 1680 x 1050 / 3D 1680 x 1050 |
| 24" (16:9) | Polarization | 2D 1920 X 1200 / 3D 1920 X 600 |
| 19" (4:3) | Auto stereo | 2D 1280 X 1024 / 3D 640 X 1024 |
| 20" (4:3) | Auto stereo | 3D 800 X 1200 |
Turn key flexible solution using standard components
The PSS is a complete turnkey immersive desktop VR solution, including all hardware and software to immediately start working.
High quality standard third party components are used for the PSS. Therefore the PSS can easily be expanded, upgraded, maintained and configured to your specific needs.
Software compatibility
Most VR applications run in the PSS. Personal Space Technologies further develops specific plug ins that open up additional functionality that was in other 3d environments not available.
3D interaction next to 2D tools
In the PSS a user has access to 3D interaction tools as well as traditional 2D tools, like a mouse and keyboard. Depending on the task at hand the user selects the right tool (e.g. menu operations using 2D tools, positioning a data set using 3D tools).
VR API: Portable Virtual Reality (PVR)
The PSS comes with our lean and powerful VR-API; PVR, PVR allows users to focus on their application and have PVR deal with the VR issues. PVR is suited for both developers and users. Furthermore PVR users do not need specific VR knowledge.
Optimization of existing VR infrastructure
The PSS can be used stand alone, as part of a complete network, in combination with other VR systems and with external computing power. This maximizes the usability of the PSS as well as the existingVR infrastructure.
