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Enter the Virtual World

Posted April 06, 2008 8:00 AM

It's one thing to design a product in software, but you get a much richer experience when you can test that design in a virtual reality (VR) setting. The military is increasingly turning to VR to validate and simulate costly battlefield systems. Iowa State's world-class VR applications center is helping engineers design new medical imaging equipment, as well as perform CFD analysis on agricultural equipment. Less costly desktop systems also are making it possible for more engineers to try VR. Could your design work benefit from the VR experience?

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04/08/2008 12:27 PM

As we can see the idea is to design better medical imaging equipment so that the military can use it to kill people from a greater distance and with less personal involvement. Just like a big video game. The easily brainwashed and disconnected killers (technicians now we call them?) can no longer tell reality from the shoot-em-up video games they were playing as kids.

Not to brag, but I already did this display system, decided it was too deadly for government idiot killers to play with regardless of the possible medical applications. This with a medical system that is economically too far removed from most budgets anyway. Gotta weigh the ratios of living vs dead from our work. Trashed it. Big screen 3-D will be developed but I can feel better knowing it won't be my system (nor as good) and more people get to live.

Had my fill of Photons.

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04/27/2008 8:13 AM

Inevitably, all technology can end up used for military purposes, and they are biggest investors into physic fundamentall research. There is also theory that largest technology inventions were due to war efforts.

I think You should weigh how much other industry branches can benefit from such software and how much inventions with good use can be designed and virtually tested also, which could enable many of them to reach production stage, if VR testing program could guarantee that result from tests and reality would match!

I am also one such inventor, and would need such program very much, so I am ready to sign contract with You that I would give You 25% of profit from any and all devices that reach marketing stage and would sell as expected. I am also willing to sign obligation to not produce any military device or weapon with use of Your program. But I need program that could test many things together, such as fluid dynamic, thermodynamic, optic, electricity, magnetism, gravity, mechanic and so on.

Please contact me if You have such program!

Marijan Pollak, IT SE/SA 1st. Class, Instructor and Team Leader.

my email is: mpollak@globalnet.hr

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04/24/2008 11:58 PM

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09/14/2008 9:34 AM

For long time nobody is writting in this thread and one post out of three is just one word, so it does not count really.........

In the meantime, I downloaded and tried to use lot of programs, just to find that one has to be expert in field to use them, which is wrong from user standpoint.

I have pretty much different idea where program would use data about materialls used and their shape to infer which naturall forces would influence work and would apply appropriate formulas to calculate results of device functioning as result of input parameters. Since each part and subassembly or assembly could be tested beforehand and moreover if they would >>carry<< their own simulation parameters and routines that would automatically adjust itself to other parts, asemblies or subassemblies connected to it, then testing any system/device as whole would be just final result of testing all parts at same time......

But, to realize such program I need funding I dont have (even 150 000 Euro would be enough to make basic functioning system in one year, compared to hundreds of milions spent yearly on similar programs), so I ask how do I find investor and wether You know somebody interested to invest money for this and under which conditions?

I am from Croatia, small and relatively poor country in center of Europe, devastated by war for independence fought 15 years ago, and impowerished by mismanagement of companies that were people's property before and which new gowernment handed to their party members like it is all gowernment property or >>privatized<< by selling companies to foreign investors.......

Therefore, it is not possible to find investors here, even for relatively small amounts of money like this. Actually I have to hire Physicist to help me with simulation parts, that is why I cannot do it myself alone.....

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