VEC’s at Daresbury’s main visualisation room boasts a 13m2 screen, two-channel ActiveWall, optically tracked and linked to a pair of ActiveSpaces to allow people to be simultaneously fully immersed and interacting. The ActiveWall also incorporates a haptic device, which facilitates virtual manual assembly simulation. -“Industrial design researchers at the University of Liverpool are using Virtalis systems to help design and evaluate interactive elements of product interfaces, such as controls, input devices, displays, and feedback sources. This is seen as a natural extension to using VR for visual product appraisals, and reflects an industry need to simulate, and thus refine, the intended operation and user experience of new design concepts”

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