Reality check: Immersive visualisation software is enabling designers to experience and make changes to creations in real time

摘要

There's a short slope in front of the 8ft-high projection screen housed inside the Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) building. It's there to warn users of the 3D visualisation suite that they're about to walk into the display, in case the immersive experience of three-dimensional life-size photorealistic graphics leads them to forget. From what The Engineer experienced when we visited WMG at Warwick University, it's very much needed.