EON Reality launching INSIZIUM, a 6.5 M€ Interactive Digital Center

IRVINE, Calif – EON Reality is launching a 6.5 M€ Interactive Digital Center and Experience and Discovery Center partnership in collaboration with Portuguese chamber of commerce and local entrepreneurs. The Center, named INSIZIUM, will be located in Santa Maria da Feira in Europarque Congress Center and Visionarium Science Center.

Europarque is an economic and cultural development project with features unique in Portugal. The complex generates events of an entrepreneurial as well as cultural, scientific, technological and recreational nature. The Europarque occupies a site covering a total area of 150 hectares.

Visionarium is a science center in Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal with state-of-the-art interactive displays (in Portuguese and English) covering subjects ranging from the Portuguese voyages of discoveries to the interiors of microchips and cells.

The initial focus of the Center will be to address the regional needs within interactive Product Content Management, Simulation Based Learning, Augmented Tele Immersion and Experience Discovery solutions. Special focus will be dedicated to industries that are locally strong such as environment, tourism, furniture and molding.

The Center is supported by Associação Empresarial de Portugal (AEP) (Portuguese Business Association), a Portuguese chamber of commerce, based in Porto founded in 1849. , EON Reality, local Venture Capitalists and EU funds through the National Strategic Reference Framework (QREN). QREN is valuing Portuguese knowledge, science, technology and innovation and the promotion of high and sustained levels of economic development and socio-cultural and territorial qualification.

The Center will be equipped with State of the Art Virtual Reality and Interactive Digital Center facility including:

* EON I compass: Six wall reconfigurable immersive Virtual Reality system for Multi User Environment designed for high level Immersive Experience
* EON Mixed Reality Studio: Multi-purpose Visualization Studio that is designed for high level interaction and augmented mixed reality where visitors can either participate & interact with the different applications or enjoy a mixed immersive presentations, tele-presence, holographic spaces etc.
* EON I Auditorium: Auditorium size stereo 3D Immersive Turn Key Virtual Reality Display System (“Imax like” but adapted for Presentations) for immersive large conferences - 25 feet wide, 14 feet high (800 participants capacity)
* EON Immersive HMD Station: the latest technology applied to immersive HMD´s that enable the end-user to interact and navigate in a VR environment
* EON Development Lab, and Project room: Complete set of hardware and software that enables the development of the new software tools based on EON Core Technology.

This equipment set up system can be used for visualization of large complex data sets or for commercial work such as design reviews, focus groups, product launches and training.

The regional clients will receive among other the following benefits:

* Scalable Experience on multiple publishing formats, e.g. Internet, 3D Stereo Displays, Workstation etc.
* Simple Data Transfer, over 120 CAD and other 3D formats can be imported including native import for Alias, Maya, Microstation, Catia, Pro/E, UG, Solidworks and Rhino plus geometry optimization tools
* Photo Realistic Visual Quality, pixel/vertex shaders, real-time reflections, shadows, light maps, Cg script node and Cg shadier library etc
* Support for stereo display multi-wall systems with blending, Support for high resolution Stereo (Quad buffer) and multi wall high quality projections and stereo displays on large screens
* Fast Development of Complex Simulation Scenarios and Configurations based on Visual Programming expandable with C++ SDK
* Realistic Representations of Humans and Mobile Objects including human Support for realistic moving people, plants and vehicles and includes starter library from RPC
* Physics Based Simulation of how Objects and Systems Behave in the Real World including real-time physics Kinematics, Collision, Gravity and Friction