Pulling Together Graphics and Data with SGI's FusionVUE

Part of Silicon Graphics, Inc's amazing new technology suite, VUE, is a new visualisation suite which it calls FusionVUE.

FusionVUE has been designed to harmonize with the way the human brain naturally works--something many of us will really appreciate, since there's largely been an antagonistic interface for doing higher level work that demands tons of visuals and visual detail. Unlike the way computers "naturally" work, the brain is a god of the contextual landscape--so, we absorb and process information fastest and best in context, and the more dynamic that context the better for the product designer, engineer, whomever.

Say goodbye to data overload as you now access real-time data flowing into a visual environment supported by cutting-edge SGI network command protocols and API. Visually streaming meta-data now gets quickly and seamlessly integrated into new designs, even if that information has to first be provided by a client. So, with the dynamic integration that SGI's FusionVUE enables, multiple visual information from multiple sources coming in over the Net from anywhere on the planet can get dynamically displayed. This makes it so that clients, too, can take an active role in a product's design, easily interacting with a professional design team that's using an SGI workstation. The client can gain access from any computer or graphics-supporting portable device.

Now, FusionVUE also enables a 3D Camera or other sources to be interactively moved around on what's called the VUEspace (the 3D contextual visual environs on the screen) simply by using a mouse/keyboard combo or a network command protocol.Again, clients can interact directly with a design team; they get intuitive command of the display environment. They can bring visual data "closer" to them, do fly-throughs and fly-arounds, and really help the product design team or researcher to know precisely what they need done.

SGI has also now brought us application reach-back that not only can seamlessly collate data and info from different sources no matter how remote, but even different operating systems are no trouble. The work team and the client don't have to worry about remote applications wrecking the big picture--making this capability a time-saver as well as a cost-saver. Highly complex data sets and information streams all get brought together so that all users can immediately make sense of it all.

And again, this is all a 3D environment that Silicon Graphics' FusionVUE is letting us all operate within now. I for one am very pleased to see SGI returning to form with what it does best--graphics, after all, is their middle name.