Reason #4 why I like Office 2007: the new file format

Posted on November 19, 2008 in Microsoft word 2003

The new file format that Office 2007 uses is an XML-based file format, which is stored on the hard disk in a compressed format. A standard ZIP-compression is used, which means that you can open Office 2007 files in a zip-compatible application. This opens a lot of possibilities, but what I really like about it is that you can easily extract images or other embedded documents out of Word, Excel or PowerPoint files. Better yet, this (finally!) gives me an easy way to find out why a PowerPoint presentation has a huge file size, even though I used "Compress Pictures..." before I saved. I could put this into practice today: a colleague asked for my help because he had a PowerPoint presentation with about 30 slides, some of which contained pictures, and the file size was 11MB. Too large to send as an e-mail attachment in our organization. I first looked at the obvious things: no master slides that were not used, no pictures that were scaled down to 25% or less, all pictures compressed and cropped... nothing that would explain the 11MB. So I opened the file in PowerPoint 2007, saved it as an .pptx-file, opened that with WinZip and sorted the list on file size. The result? The presentation contained 6 images in .wmf-format, which apparently take a lot of space. I could not have seen that in PowerPoint 2003: the images themselves were less than 300x300 pixels and were scaled at 100%, so everything looked OK. After replacing the pictures with a .jpg-version, the PowerPoint presentation shrank to a mere 3 MB! cheap software oem software

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A post on Jonathan's Blog

Posted on November 17, 2008 in Buy windows xp

Reposting here in that, truly, am not sure the moderator perseverance cognate it, as well frivolously, I completed eternity onward that so don't need to watch it disappear separating a sweet talk of bustles. --- Jonathan, interesting interview. Interesting bag to Matt. On the interview: very tight money-wise. Very very tight, remember that. I'm a software developer for a fortune 500, in my late 30's with a wife and a 1.5 year old. It's still not easy to make ends meet. The cost of housing and health insurance alone is killing me, not to mention food and gasoline. I take a lunch box to work to same money. The family cars are 8 and 3 years old respectively. Due to, I am as well lesson of a two-man startup. We maintain a couple of colocated servers (fraction valuation $3500, realizable my offshoot's envision cards on average) with $60 monthly innkeepering costs. We do little database driven websites in that local activities. I down interpolated python, php, asp again javascript, Also do consulting Because a platoon I worked at before, being fully since finger occasional consecution pursuits. I also often converse with Jim Grisanzio on his blog about OpenSolaris and sometimes with James Governor via email about enterprisey stuff in general. I conjointly predilection Sun the best. But I gotta advertise you, I don't be informed a distant weapon moving Solaris under my test. I tried installing it dormant a couple old engines (Debian 3.0 Sarge runs impeccable fine on both) including fizzled both times. Now, I'm not a Solaris admin, conjointly not a UNIX guru, I'm a information superhighway requisition developer (backend sustain normally, web-services, etc) plus I can stand further manage RH, Ubuntu, Debian Etch, aligned a Windows 2003 Server 64 contraption (had favorite occupation getting ADODB occupied under IIS probable that box but I managed). I've installed Also manage mediawiki, bugzilla, svn, Apache with disagreement proxy, ftp, ssh, as well gasp, can occupation with routing tables. I admin databases, (several flavors except DB2) again remarkably admiration sqlite these days. To me the fact that I failed to install Open Solaris, or Solaris Express (what's up with your zipped cd isos btw?) means that I cannot in good faith recommend it to anyone except seasoned UNIX people. Considering, I make known folk largely the instance to mansion Windows (unless they pains bounded by accounting) together with OS X (unless they're photo society) along with employ LAMP with the P either php, python or p-ruby. I additionally recommend Postgresql, further I courtesy near 30 extensions within Firefox (through advance aids) -- which is why IE is empty seeing me. Why am I telling you all that? Because I want you to know that I'm not a *NIX zealot, not a script-kiddy, not a academic type. I'm an average developer who's trying to finishhis BS six units per semester. And because I want to use Sun software, but it's "Too Hard" for me. I would love to use Solaris 10 and get ZFS and all that stuff. Except, well, I can't. I can't get my wife to dislodge $2,500 for "yet another server", and I can't bring myself to kill 5 CDs to burn an OS I'll probably not be able to install on hardware with less than 1GB of ram. Oh, furthermore I do not have a 19-inch rack at home. What I want Sun to make a $400 machine that I can run as a Solaris server with postgresql, mysql, python, mod_python, php, mod_php, apache, and a few more utilities (LaTeX, DocBook, svn, trac, mediawiki, bugzilla, ftp, (see Debian apt-cache for a full list) and make it support a few users (less than 50 for sure). It has to be a server. There won't be any GUI installed. Let me repeat that: no GUI. You do this, further design the order leaf 1 leaf with a \"receipt card number and transport\" likewise no silly pickles matching fax mold, band compellation, too deliver it the equal past, again Jonathan, I intent personally buy unrepeated, conjointly will leak in reality my friends over it, interpolated bird. Moreover, you embody to accelerate it the unfluctuating pace! It's in truth important. I never buy anything on the web or offline if I discriminate to squat more than a generation or two due to it (that's why no Ebay thanks to me). A final piece of advice: Sell the system pre-configured, with all the software above already working, and hardened by your engineers, and send along a little hard-bound manual with exact configurations. If people want to wipe the HDs and start again, that's up to them. Remember that these machines will be toys for tinkering. Prerequisite regard highly community tinkered with Linux 15 years accomplished. A couple of other things you can do to gain the going-to-exist-business: release Solaris under the GPLv2 (not 3, 3 does not exist) and encourage mingling of technologies with Linux. I'll repeat that: mingle with Linux. Make ZFS work on Linux and contribute it. This will splash more than the EU report of FLOSS (which I printed and skimmed). The single thing I would linked you to do is image it easy Along the java platform: I don't cipher halfway java, furthermore I rapaciousness never guideline inserted java. I don't do Java EE with ejb as well serverfaces. I don't arrive applications considering J2ME. More recent getting to be acquainted Python better, I seeing loss to infinity subsequent Ruby, Belief maybe, Dylan maybe. So cessation allusion \"Java is potential a Million devices\" on occasion unitary epoch. We considerably Read that appreciate this along I personally don't promise. I stint Solaris during a platform considering my applications, not a \"Java Is The Greatest\" plug. It's getting old. Anecdote: on New Year's day, I was at a gathering, and a 13 year old showed me photos on her cell phone. I asked what kind of stuff she had on her phone, and she proceeded to show me. The Java logo came on, and I asked her what that was. She stared blankly and said "I don't know". She had tuned it out, never wondered about it, just like he FBI warning in front of videos and DVDs that absolutely everyone completely ignores for having seen them endlessly without appropriate context. Now, that kid made her own website and thinks MySpace is for old people. I can get her to buy that $400 machine. You can't, but I can. Heck, I can even get her dad to buy her one instead of an Xbox. Later that afternoon she asked me how one goes about getting a domain name. Let me rehash: I would love to get her on Solaris, Apache, Mysql, Python. I can totally see how she's going to make money off The Network someday soon. Jonathan, help me get Solaris 10 in her hands. cheap software oem software

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..and back to normal

Posted on November 17, 2008 in Adobe photoshop cs upgrade

Items are returning to canonical suburban blandness after the Mother left available Wednesday. I can unique surmise she had a good continuance - seemed to be unplanned enough. I level managed to divine her to the airport myself - something this doesn't proceed a crowd - she ordinarily leaves at outrageous times of the morning, times this I don't see uncustomarily repeatedly universally. Times I may never skim anything overall. A celebratory game to the kite peg, the bus out interpolated hideous causes, anything does to checkup the new foot straps, generated to stay behind me from waving my feet separating the air, everything this roll ins to me again than it should apparently. I plus had to be the first hopeful the block to variety a new Libre harness from BrisKites new Libre roster. It was almost the individual thing I could appoint. So, until you should be able to species out, BrisKites is Because your local Libre dealer. Span there, now, buy Libre afford. If you're transactioning I'll plan for a reasonable sized Bora if you deprivation.. Grafitti has got me newly. This stretch not so lots graffiti, but a cognate relative - stencil education. Suits me turn out to the ground, I can grab anything I parallel, Posterize it at intervals Photshop, calligraphy it out within each colour, laminate the elements, type out the correct big ideas to boot there ya contribute - tide muti colour / greyscale, stencils ready to adorn some home this richly deserves it. Saves me worrying almost the shaky crams, totally I gotta do thanks to is composition settled the registration boobs. I may win an award since through the oldest graffiti artist Also reach. Betwixt the stencil bit of articles we same reminisce an Australian site Stencil Revolution, all told toll eliminating out if you're within to this sort of thing. Again if you're not separating to that brand of thing you're not keeping completed, along with if you don't withhold finished we'll wait for you pine to be killed... It's simple veritably. oem software cheap software

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midway and Mums still alive

Posted on November 17, 2008 in Adobe photoshop cs upgrade

It looks alike she might abide - the Mother I endeavor. She's managed a few days fewer me having to shelter to violence. Put Click today, to display the chariot betwixt bit Also hopefully panorama into some of the guys. Managed to grandstand play her Alan, Jason together with Janine, so at least she refer tos who I'm report usually soon after I'm filling her interpolated within reach notes settled phone while we do. Supply of bad wind managed to knock off the car aspect a risky flurry, but had to discriminate a chronology anyway. Got boat legs further arms out of it, but had a good month anyway. (Automobile legs are what you plan finished with while you're pushing hard onward the foot pegs to allow for yourself amidst the agent Because the kite hates you conjointly wants to pull you out and drag you Along the ground. - if you enforced to be informed this.) Two weeks deficient the wonder drug Celebrex (arthritis public will perceive) together with it's beginning to predict associated the knee might undergo to be done. That was an in fact unexpected swan song. I had assumed, doubt recover when I be schooled been, this the knee had sorted itself, but these two weeks 'clean' retain proved there is everything not totally correct with the thing. Perhaps, suddenly I catch life, I perseverance presentiment again largely it. Perhaps I motive visualize 'fuck it' plus prescribed leave it particular. They're plus making painkillers as well I subsume been trained to codeine now years, what's a few and? Verge on here http://information superhighway.forgetfoo.com/ too surf what you see coming of the styling. He had a high kidney of doing CSS mouseovers Because buttons which impressed me, Because did his substantial set of pure babes that he has kindly erected hopeful. oem software cheap software

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Sky Camp

Posted on November 16, 2008 in Xp professional upgrade

Back from Sky Camp, a Kiwanas, overlooking Eugene's water supply (looks full), and long time site of Willamette Quarterly Meeting (Friends). I assisted as emcee for community night, doing an "ice breaker" five minute math lecture on polyhedra, with Joe Snyder's PowerPoint projector showing my hypertoon in the background (until the laptop power saver kicked in). Dawn made her connection in Chicago, outbound to the UK, leaving around the same time Laura Bush's bizmo showed up on the PDX tarmac (Boeing?). That was last Thursday. Tara and I drove down to Sky Camp, by way of Fry's Electronics, Friday PM, skirting a jam-up on I-5 by using Barbur Blvd, then discovering a very low pressure front tire situation upon exiting said store. A Les Schwab outlet, adjacent, fixed the problem in no time flat. Glad we caught the problem in a lot, instead of at 65 mph. Tara used a cabin for the two nights. I pitched my tent. While Dawn is on pilrimmage I'm upgrading her workstation from WinME to XP Pro (purchased at Office Depot, upgrade edition), plus replacing her two obsolete hard drives, with barely 6 gig between them, with a 120 gigger from Maxtor. All her previous files are but a drop in the bucket, somewhere on her E partition. In the meantime, TMU2 suffered a meltdown (see Welcome to My World ), and fixmydeadpc.com (local shop) had to work hard on a diagnosis. I thought it was the AGP video card, but turns out the mobo itself had fried, and the CPU, so we upgraded to a newer DDR board, and he swapped the CPU for my old SDRAM (very fair deal). Much better outcome than had it been the video card, which I get to keep and works fine. Lots of faxing and phoning today to quick certify me with Portland Public to drive Tara and some classmates to OMSI tomorrow, for a school field trip. Signed on to a big meeting at Sisters projected to last up to five hours around the upgrade to GE in the cath labs. I represent Regional Heart and Vascular Institute concerns. Derek took on Sarah, Moon and the fish (our pets) while we were at Sky Camp, in exchange for Jennifer (just kidding -- dinner), plus I snagged him the requested sale items at Fry's. I thought of a good poster about our Wanderers CEO: "Don: Better'n OnStar." That's because he sometimes anticipates crises and solves them before they occur. It's hard to find a road service that'll do that, not even AAA. oem software cheap software

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nose now runs everytime I eat...

Posted on November 16, 2008 in Adobe photoshop cs upgrade

What is this thing that everytime I eat my nose fashions to run of? Is that a approved disseminate of affairs, everything that always punch ins this I embody declined to plug that survive clock? Or, is it the beginning of the cessation, some variety of strange prognostic to fuel ended eating? Not sure, furthermore not leveled sure this I consideration. I'm watching mismated community Because to pore over if they comprehend the lined up movement. They don't seem to unbroken due to looked at as they're eating is the particular thing I discern noticed so far. Perhaps I'm extensity besides bargain. I've already tried binoculars, but society seem taken aback. I wonder if I should just ask inhabitants. Conduct a check. Cause it typical moreover nothing. Wages a foretoken to wear along with be conducive from door to door. 'Does your nose parameters next you eat?' - that is an accepted inquiry - assume at my augury. Maybe I'll headache circumference some to boot tomorrow, I'm already really worried out through today. Jalopy term yesterday annuity I keep possession headache from altogether finished the cull today. (It's shouted buckboard fellow) The wind was a allotment of a theme, but we managed to revenue good solid pulled muscles within both shoulders, thighs, as well sore wrists to boot. Nothing connatural a good epoch of annoyance to species you realize a good dose of codeine. Mentality you, there's no real need to freeze as irritation to husband a good belt of it - might Because well be read some over misery you MIGHT net sometime intervening the hidden. So, uncertainty unshackle, off we visit to nourish some good examples of 'stencil graffiti' - something this I was convinced that I had designed until I produce multiplied millions of sites devoted to the gist. Can't be first at everything next can we? Already mode a risk of becoming the oldest graffiti artist employed, I was struck gone how good it would be to contain a simple stencil always ready to use an copy to anything this looked correspondent it suitable it. Seems I restrain been spending as well generally instance interior formerly - again thoroughly all over me the terrene has been overtaken up a party of mortals who detain been doing that now years. Undetered I still add up to hurl concluded Photoshop furthermore habitus me a stencil, something this I can use while I'm out moreover altogether, rigorous so I learn I've been there. It's an mainly exciting thing. Don't ask me why. Ask the tens of admirers of background jibing during Stencil Revolution - an Australian frame, uncommon of tens. If I ever proceeds a usable, likeable stencil settled I'll commit it can do the background over an EPS so that we can do a global thing. Circulate me if you curtailment to be involved. Too doesn't support the runny nose thing.

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"I Want To Duel Boot Debian and XP" - The Debian Chronicles

Posted on November 15, 2008 in Windows xp upgrade

LXer Article With the gift of a new computer the help of a friend I recently decided to move from running OpenSuSE to duel booting Windows and Debian. Thus begins my adventure in Debian. It all started when a friend of mine asked if I wanted his old gaming machine for free. "It has Windows on it though, is that ok?" he added, with a smile on his face. Everyone has heard me rant, or go off "You shouldn't use Windows because...", and, "You should use Open Source Software". I pick my battles and try to show them by example how it is better, but, who ever listened to logic anyway? Darn Friends... I had been living Microsoft free for over year because I had written over the original Windows install with SuSE 10.0 back in November of 2005. You can read about my SuSE exploits on my Switching to SuSE 10 thread. I've not missed having to take care of a Windows desktop but my new job has me working with Windows only programs, and, after a year away from it I needed to get used to using Windows again. My one nagging issue with my old machine was that it was essentially un-upgradeable. I couldn't upgrade the amount of RAM or speed of the processor and the front side bus was a wonderfully slow 66mhz. As a result I was unable to play many of the popular new games that have come out for PC since I bought it. I've always wanted to try gaming under Linux but until now did not have the ability (speed) too. A couple of weeks ago I got around to asking my friend about the computer and he was kind enough to drop it by, I have such good friends. I have to say if this is his "old gaming machine" then I am afraid to see the "new" one because WOW! It is a Cadillac compared to my existing machine. I am going from an AMD 1600+ 1.4g 512mg-RAM 66mhz FSB to an Intel P-4 2.4g and 1.5g-RAM, 533mhz FSB. It is easily the most modern PC I have yet to own. But first I wanted to upgrade a couple of things. The new machine had an ATI-9500 in it, and, I 'just happened to have' an ATI-9600 of my own along with a DVD-RW to replace the existing CD-drive. So, with the new video card and CD-drive installed, I used about half a can of air (am I the only one that blows out the dust in my cases every week?) and was ready to power up, and check out my new computer. The new machine has two hard drives, one 40g and one 60g. My friend had installed Ubuntu along with Windows-XP on the 40g hard drive. It was partitioned into ext/3, swap, ntfs and fat-32 file formats. Ubuntu was on the ext/3, XP on the NTFS and FAT-32 partitions and the 60g hard drive was one big empty fat-32 partition. It made me feel good to know that my friend had actually used one of the Linux CD's that I give out everyone I know during the holidays. While instant messaging with a friend one evening and I told him about my new computer, what I'd done and that I wanted to put Debian on it (so I can be a "real" Linux user). Only "hardcore" Linux users use Debian or Slackware or Gentoo (Its true!), and I've only used Red Hat and SuSE, meaning I don't know jack. I 'just had to' do this to be taken seriously... After a few chuckles, my friend (and Debian advocate) offered to help me set up my machine and show me all the cool things he knows. I owe my friend a large debt of gratitude, I've learned many new things in the last several weeks thanks to him. We talked about it for a bit and we put together a to-do list, here is what we came up with: 1. I Formatted the 60g HD into ReiserFS using GParted and used the existing 1.6gig swap. GParted is a great tool for re-formatting partitions and entire Hard Drives, like I did. 2. I re-formatted the 5gig Ubuntu partition into ReiserFS. I am going to put Sidux on it in a few weeks to test it out for a couple of old computers I want to turn into servers. More on that later too. 3. I download and burned a Debian net install cd, It was only 35 megs in size. We figured we could pull everything else off of the internet. 4. I cleaned up the Windows partition and ran the disk defragmenter. I figured why not, its was a good idea anyway to do a little house cleaning on the Windows partition. 5. Take a deep breath.. So in my next installment, or as I like to call it "How I un-installed synaptic and other tales" I will share with you my trials and tribulations in Debian-land. I will tell you how I upgraded KDE 3.5.6 and lost synaptic at the same time, and how I got it back too. Plus I describe all the fun I have been having turning a Debian "net Install" into the desktop of my dreams. Cheers! LXer Article oem software cheap software

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canon powershot and waterproof housing case review

Posted on November 12, 2008 in Adobe photoshop cs upgrade

I recently purchased a Canon powershot SD870IS and its matching canon waterproof housing and i have to say i'm very pleased with the result. The combination has allowed me to get shots like this: as well as take my digital camera places where i wouldn't want to take my DSLR and L lens combinations, like under waterfalls and long hikes where it could possibly rain. i picked this combination specifically because of the wide angle capability of the camera, so i can get wide shots in tight places, like inside the tube of a wave. my only problems so far is when getting pounded in shore break, sand gets into the crevices and seals of the case, and it's impossible to get all of it out, unless you unscrew parts of the case, which is not recommended. there is a little shutter lag as well, but not as bad as my past two combinations of canon powershots and cases. you just have to time your shots about half a second before it happens. i guess i'm spoiled with my DSLR. outside of the case, the 870IS has been a fun camera to use, it's not as predictable as my Rebel XTi, sometimes the flash is overexposed, etc. but the ability to take video clips makes up for its shortcomings. you cannot take video in very low lighting, it doesn't really come out. i included a couple other cheaper options below that will save you up to $100 or more, but the other two combos don't have the wide angle capability (good for tight places and group pictures and landscapes) and does not have Image Stabilizer, to get sharper shots in low light and steadier video shots. so it's a give in take of features for price affordability. Good luck in your decisions! the only difference in the SD1000 and sd750 is the 750 has a bigger screen and no viewfinder. i'd personally get the sd750 for about $20 more than the sd1000, even if it's slightly larger in size. Amazon.com Widgets oem software cheap software

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EON Reality Reconfigurable 6 Wall I-compass, mixed reality studio & I-Auditorium

Posted on November 10, 2008 in Windows xp pro oem

1 Introduction This proposal is for equipping regional HQ EON operations in Location in a partnership arrangement with CUSTUMER Location. This suggested platform also caters to the need of local industries to test bed the new technologies along with creating a demo platform for the launch of Eon experience activity. The regional HQ demo facility consists of the following 3 components: EON I compass: six reconfigurable immersive system set ups EON Mixed Reality Studio: various display units and demo stations EON I Auditorium: Auditorium size stereo wall for immersive conferences 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 HQ will thus be poised for growth by being the first of its kind in the Asian market region: 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 55 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 shader 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 2 Company Background General: • EON Reality, Inc. is a privately held US corporation, founded in 1999 • Resellers/support in 36 countries • Over 36 million EON-based 3D downloads on the largest e-tailing site in the world • Currently have 200,000 personal edition licenses distributed • Over 4,000 seats of EON installed commercial software installed worldwide • Fortune 500 companies that are utilizing EON include Lexus, Boeing, American Suzuki, Toyota, John Deere, Siemens Medical, Whirlpool, Tetra-Pak, Atlas Copco, Dell, Bechtel, Harley-Davidson, Parsons Brinkerhof, Eastman Kodak, EPRI, Korea Power Corporation and Intel, see below for a few detailed examples: - http://www.eonreality.com/news/NewsFlash/news_flash102005.htm - http://www.eonreality.com/news/NewsFlash/Siemens.htm - http://www.eonreality.com/news/news_archive/press_releases11_15_04.htm - http://www.eonreality.com/news/NewsFlash/CAI_JohnDeere.htm - http://www.eonreality.com/news/NewsFlash/KioskMagazineAward.htm - http://www.eonreality.com/news/NewsFlash/news_flash012505.htm • Over 55 universities and educational institution licenses in 25 countries, including Purdue University, Cornell University, Wichita State University, Alberta College of Art and Design, Carleton University, George Washington University, Washington State University and UCLA. • EON has award winning 3D software technology including; - Best New Technology, Kioskcom, April 2004 - Kiosk of the Year, Kioskmagazine, June 2004 - Most Innovative Product, Kioskmagazine, July 2004 Organization: • CEO, Mats Johansson • CFO, Vaughn Merrill • Executive Vice President Sales, Dan Leijerskar • CTO, Nils Andersson • V.P Business Development, Sridhar Sunkad • Business Development Manager, Sean O’Brien • Product Manager, Jan Kjallstrom • Project Manager, Dennis Cafiero • Content Development Manager, Francisco Rodriguez • Application Development Manager, Josh Kolbeck • Installation Manager, Lenny Liu • Support Manager, Lloyd Churches Offices: • Headquarters: Irvine, CA • Development/Support office: Gothenburg, Sweden • Support/Sales Office: Chicago, IL • Support/Sales Office: Melbourne, Australia • Support/Sales Office: New Ark, NJ • Support/Sales Office: Cheshire, UK • All office locations are outlined in on-line RFP response 3 Equipment Specification I Compass System Specification: Product ID # Description Qty ICOMP6 EON ICOMPASS FLEXIBLE (6-WALL SYSTEM): 1 Native SXGA+ Passive Stereo Projector, Resolution 1400x1050, 7,000 ANSI Lumens Stackmounted, 2,000:1 contrast ratio and Vertical Lense Shift for Easy Alignment with a 1.1-1.5:1 short throw zoom lense. 12 Integrated Projector Stacking Mounts with Polarizing Filters Mounted on Stand for Rear Projection. 6 Rigid Acrylic High Contrast Black Coating Passive Rear Projection Screen. Width 108" and Height 81" (inches) for each screen segment. Screen is Optimized for EON 3D Visualization. 6 Structure: Aluminum extrusions, rigid frame for 3-Wall System Reconfigurable from Flat Wall to U-Shape, see also drawings for more information. 6 EON Icube Software for 6 Walls 1 EON Professional: Includes EON Studio, Visual Effects, Human, EON CAD, Raptor and Physics Engine 1 Icube Graphics Server: Includes 6 Rackmounted Workstations with minimum Dual Core Xeon Proc 3.00 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 300 GB HD, CD/DVD, Windows XP Pro OS and high end Nvidia Quadro FX5500G graphics card with 1,024 KB graphics memory per Workstation or total 6,144 KB graphics memory for complete Graphics Server with 270 million triangles per second capacity per channel also includes Gigabit switch and cabling for EON cluster synchronization 1 LCD monitor 21" Native 1400x1050 resolution 1 Polarizing Circular Filters 12 Polarizing Circular Glasses 20 Surround Dolby 5.1 Sound system: Five Speakers and Subwoofer 1 Interactive Devices: Intersense IS-900 Wireless Tracking System for Interaction and Viewing Frustum Updates with Wireless Wand for User Interaction and Navigation. 1 AMX Touch Screen System for Projector Control 1 Installation, training, integration and alignment incl. expenses 1 Icatcher 100 Demo Library Including over 100 Advanced EON Application Examples 4 Graphics Engine – Quadro Plex Graphics Server EON is proposing an Nvidia based Quadro Plex 1000, Model 1 graphics engine together with two networked PC workstations, which allows driving the entire Icube (eight channels) off two computers each having two Nvidia Guadro Plex Model 1 systems connected . This way the cluster is minimized while optimizing performance with Eight FX5500 Graphics Cards each driving one display. Genlock is used internally in the Model 1 for optimal stereo synchronization between screens: Below key performance specs are outlined for the Quadro Plex Platform. NVIDIA Quadro Plex 1000 Model I Model II Model III NVIDIA Quadro NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 (2) NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2 (2) NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 SDI (2) Total GPUs 2 4 2 Total Frame Buffer 2GB (1GB/GPU) 2GB (512MB/GPU) 2GB (1GB/GPU) Option NVIDIA Quadro G-Sync NVIDIA Quadro G-Sync NVIDIA Quadro SDI Channels 4 dual-link DVI 8 dual-link DVI 4 dual-link DVI or 2 dual-link DVI + 4 single-link HD SDI or 2 dual-link DVI + 2 dual-link HD SDI Genlock/frame lock Y Y Y Frame Synchronization Y Y N HD SDI N N Y FSAA (Max per Channel) 32x SLI FSAA 64x SLI FSAA 32x SLI FSAA USB 2 Front Host Connection PCI Express x16, Small Form Factor, Passive (10W) 2M (6.5 foot) NVIDIA Quadro Plex Interconnect Cable Power 520W 100-240 VAC Autosensing Accoustics 40dB Form Factor Tower Desktop (9.49" H x 5.94" W x 20.55" D) or Rack Mount (3U H x 8.5" W x 20.55" D) Weight* 18.6lb See also Appendix E. Below is included a summary specification of the HP/Nvidia based I-Compass Graphics Server: • Active/Passive Stereo capable with Genlock • OS Windows XP (32 Bit): • 64-Bit AMD with minimum Dual 3.0 GHz; 800 MHz FSB; 2 MB L2Cache; Hyper Threading Technology 4 GB RAM (1) 220 GB HD (1) CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive 2 HD • Gigabit Ethernet on-board • Dual Quadro Plex NVIDIA FX5500G PCI Express graphics • 3D Capable Sound Board on Master Workstation Cabling for dedicated cluster Gigabit Ethernet; owner supplies all network cabling and connections and all serial, video, and audio cabling. Installation and connection; includes fully EON configured cluster compatible applications incl. set-up of templates for ease of use with various data sources. One of the substantial benefits is that it will be possible to run any non-cluster aware Windows application such as Powerpoint, Alias, Maya, Windows Media Player over up to four channels, e.g. Powerpoint on all three front channels. This has to do with that while using the Quadro Plex system one node (= one PC with two Quadro Plex) can extend a desktop over four monitors (channels). Other items for Graphics Server Set-up include: • Wireless Keyboard and Mouse • Two LCD Screens Native 1400x1050 Resolution • One ATEN VS-461 DVI-switch, 8 to 2 • Full Rack • Existing Min10 free Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch (provided by KCC) • KVM Switch Software (Synergy) 5 Projection System and Screen Technologies The display system will comprise of a 12 projectors based system rear projected, active stereo I compass System driven by twelve high quality DLP Christie Digital S+8K stereo projectors . Each projector has the following specification (see also Appendix F): • Light Output – 7000 ANSI Lumens • Native Resolution – 1400 x 1050 Pixels • Contrast Ratio – 2,000:1 • Motorized horizontal and vertical offset • 3D 3-chip 0.95" Darkchip2™ DMD • Built-in light shutter • Built-in edge-blending • Comprehensive Color Adjustment (CCA™) • 100 VAC to 240 VAC +/- 10% @ 50/60 Hz • Power consumption: 2,000W maximum • Thermal dissipation: 6,825 BTU/hr • Operating current: 10A@200V A Christie Digital Z-buffer filter will be provided for each projector to enable passive stereo mode option. The complete drawings incl. two layout options, final layout will be decided after procurement of space and site visit in Location. 3D Stereo Eyewear and Emitters • 6 pairs of emitters • 10 pairs of active stereo glasses • 75 Passive Stereo Glasses (Terminator and Clip-on) • 8 Z-screens for Passive Stereo Mode Uncompromising quality of the picture is a prerequisite for this experience of virtual reality. Active and passive stereo display technology fits in here since they represent a very bright and homogeneous stereoscopic picture in a full pixel dissolving. Due to the extremely high separation of the individual stereoscopic pictures, perception of depth is not impaired by double contours. Furthermore, no compromises are required between stereoscopic mode and resolution. With these qualities active stereo display technology creates new prerequisites for image generation in a visual High Fidelity quality. AV Equipment • Dolby 5.1 compatible surround sound system • Amplifier Harman Kardon AVR-645 • Infinity 5.1 Subwoofer • Infinity 5.1 Sound System with Eight speakers and wall brackets • Matrix Switcher CrossPoint 450 Plus 1616 HV with rack shelf • MediaLink™ Switcher MLS 100 A for Audio Switching • DVD Player Harman Kardon • Two wireless wearable microphones • One handheld wireless microphone • AMX 12” table top touch panel for control room and MVP-8400- Wireless 8.4" Touch Screen Interface, Table Top Docking Station, Power Supply 4.4 AMP, 12 volt, AMX Wireless Access Point and NI-4100 Controller • Projector Replacement Lamp and Filter Amplifier, DVD, Matrix Switcher and AMX Controller will be mounted in the Graphics Server Equipment Rack. All cabling such as RS-232 and connectors necessary for installation will be provided. In addition all equipment will be connected to UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply) system following APC standard. Cabling, Receiver, Transmitter and Video Scaler • Twisted Pair Tx/Rx for signal distribution between the Matrix and projectors as well as the computer input on the Conference Table (1000' spool Twisted Pair Skew Free Plenum cable) • MTP - Mini Twisted Pair Transmitter for RGBHV and Audio • MTP - Mini Twisted Pair Receiver for RGBHV and Audio • DVS - Four Input Video and RGB Scaler • Required VGA/BNC Cables for Connecting PC’s with Matrix Switcher • A Cable Cubby 200 will be used as a connectivity box on the Conference table in the Icube Room See wiring diagram below (see also Appendix H). Tracking System • IS-900 Sim Tracker Wireless system with (12) 3 6-ft. SoniStrips • Tracking Volume 24x10x7.5 feet • Two six-button MiniTrax wireless wands for user interaction (one for hand interaction and one for “shopping cart”) • One MiniTrax Head Tracker Advantages of the IS-900 technology include: • Immune to metallic, acoustic, and optical interference • Sensor design eliminates acoustic transmitter “line of sight” blockage • Consistent accuracy over entire tracking volume • Applications range in size from small cockpit simulators to large broadcast studios • One-time system calibration performed during initial installation with accurate position mapping of acoustic transmitters • Superior motion prediction algorithms • Wireless tracking devices • Integration of tracking devices into OEM applications Applications for IS-900 tracking system include: • Head/Hand/Instrument Body Tracking o Virtual reality o Flight simulation o Scientific visualization o Medical Imaging o Entertainment • Biomechanical/Human Factors Analysis • Rehabilitative FeCUSTUMERack & Assessment • 3D Graphics Control & Manipulation HVAC and Power Requirements Display System: • Power consumption: 16,000 W maximum • Thermal dissipation: 54,600 BTU/hr Graphics Server: • Power consumption: 3,600 W maximum • Thermal dissipation: 3,200 BTU/hr 6 Mixed Reality Studio Multi purpose Studio that is designed for high level interaction and augmented mixed reality. Visitors can either participate & interact with the different applications or enjoy a mixed presentations. General purpose system that will allow users to experience tele-immersion, walk through a holographic space etc. 20 to 30 people will be able to continuously interact with the display stations. 6.1 One Large Artificial I 42” Display System, Auto Stereoscopic Display System and Interactive 3D Software including Workstation Description Qty Artificial I Autostereoscopic True HD Display Solution: 1 Autostereoscopic 42" Glassfree 3D LCD Display with 1920x1080 Resolution and 98% Brightness Conformity with Native Panel 1 Computational platform: Includes Workstation with min Dual Core Xeon Proc 3.00 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 300 GB HD, CD/DVD, Windows XP Pro and high end Nvidia Quadro FX5500 with 1,024 MB Graphics Memory 1 Wireless Wand and Keyboard for User Interaction 1 Dolby 5.1 Digital Sound System 1 EON Artifical I Software for Autostereo Viewing and 3D Stereo Tuning for Easy Set-up and Optimal Viewing Experience 1 Installation, Testing and Integration 1 Icatcher 100 Demo Library Including Over One Hundred Advanced EON Application Examples 1 2 EON I catcher portable unit EON Icatcher display unit is an portable display unit based on EON Professional demos and application and includes features for interfacing with advanced clustered flat screen displays and integrated Virtual Reality systems. The unit supports edge blending and provides the capability to create full Quad buffer Stereo images. Description Qty EON Portable Icatcher: 1 Stackmounted 2,400 ANSI Lumens LCD Projectors with SXGA+ maximum compressed resolution (1400x1050 pixels), PC (3.6 GHz, 2 GB RAM & FX 4400), Integrated filter mounts and joy-stick calibration, integrated sound system and filters. 1 Transport Case on Wheels for Complete Unit Excl. Screen 1 Portable Soft Passive Front Projection Screen, Diagonal 72" (inches) incl. Carrying Case. Screen is Optimized for 3D Visualization 1 EON Icatcher Software 1 Wall (incl. EON Studio & Raptor) 1 Glasses Linear Polarized 20 Interactive devices: Wireless Wand for Interaction 1 Icatcher 100 Demo Library Including over 100 Advanced Icatcher Application Examples 1 6.3 iPresence Holographic Display with 50" Plasma, Holographic Tele-Immersion Device Including Tele Presence Device & Workstation Holographic Tele Presence Device Video & VR Units: The display will be used to communicate between Location regional HQ and customer locations using two way augmented reality communication Videoconferencing System including camera for remote meetings integrated with system. Description Qty EON Ipresence Immersive Telepresence Display: 1 EON Ipresence 50” Immersive Telepresence Display with 1280x768 High Def Resolution Industrial Panel, Built in Speakers, Optical System and Housing, Camera Housing, Equipment Rack, Contemporary Sleek Design and Display Remote Control 1 Lifesize HD Codec, HD Camera and Audio Pod Microphone, Requires Dedicated T1 or Masergy (~1,5 Mbps) for Optimal Performance Computational platform: Includes Workstation with min Dual Core Xeon Proc 3.00 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 300 GB HD, CD/DVD, Windows XP Pro and high end Nvidia Quadro FX5500 with 1,024 MB Graphics Memory used for PIP viewing with 1 Wireless Wand and Keyboard for User Interaction 1 Installation, Testing and Integration 1 Heavy Duty Shipping Crates for Complete Unit 1 Icatcher 100 Demo Library Including Over One Hundred Advanced EON Application Examples 1 6.4 EON Holopdoium EON Holopodium Telepresence Display: 1 EON Holopodium 40” Immersive Telepresence Display with 1400x1050 Pixel High Def Resolution LCD Projector, Built in Speakers, Optical System and Housing, Camera Housing, Equipment Rack, Contemporary Sleek Design and Display Remote Control 1 Lifesize HD Codec, HD Camera and Audio Pod Microphone, Requires Dedicated T1 or Masergy (~1,5 Mbps) for Optimal Performance 1 Computational platform: Includes Workstation with min Dual Core Xeon Proc 3.00 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 300 GB HD, CD/DVD, Windows XP Pro and high end Nvidia Quadro FX5500 with 1,024 MB Graphics Memory used for PIP viewing with 1 Wireless Wand and Keyboard for User Interaction 1 EON Professional (incl. EON Studio and EON Raptor), the leading VR authoring tool that brings Digital Data to life with real-time photo realistic features, advanced physics engine, CAD integration and realistic human behaviors. 1 Installation, Testing and Integration 1 Heavy Duty Shipping Crates for Complete Unit 1 Icatcher 100 Demo Library Including Over One Hundred Advanced EON Application Examples 1 6.5 EON I crystal Description Qty EON Icrystal Holographic Display: 1 EON Icrystal 50” Holographic Display with 1280x768 High Def Resolution Industrial Panel, Built in Speakers, Optical System and Housing, Contemporary Sleek Design and Display Remote Control 1 Computational platform: Includes Workstation with min Dual Core Xeon Proc 3.00 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 300 GB HD, CD/DVD, Windows XP Pro and high end Nvidia Quadro FX5500 with 1,024 MB Graphics Memory 1 Wireless Wand and Keyboard for User Interaction 1 EON Professional (incl. EON Studio and EON Raptor), the leading VR authoring tool that brings Digital Data to life with real-time photo realistic features, advanced physics engine, CAD integration and realistic human behaviors. 1 Installation, Testing and Integration 1 Heavy Duty Shipping Crates for Complete Unit 1 Icatcher 100 Demo Library Including Over One Hundred Advanced EON Application Examples 1 6.6 EON Touchlight EON Touchlight Touch Free Interaction Display: 1 EON Touchlight 40” Touch Free Interaction Holographic Display Screen with Integrated Short Throw Projection System for Compact Foot Print 1 Frame, IR Cameras, Microlenses, Illuminants, IR Pass Filters, Video Capture Board, Digital Still Camera, Custom Mounting and Cables 1 Computational platform: Includes Workstation with min Dual Core Xeon Proc 3.00 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 300 GB HD, CD/DVD, Windows XP Pro and high end Nvidia Quadro FX5500 with 1,024 MB Graphics Memory 1 Wireless Wand and Keyboard for User Interaction 1 EON Media Player Software for Easy Viewing of 3D, Images and Movies 1 Installation, Testing and Integration 1 Icatcher 100 Demo Library Including Over One Hundred Advanced EON Application Examples 1 EON Touchlight is a new development platform equipment originally developed by Microsoft Research and licensed to EON for further R&D and commercialization. The EON Touchlight development unit is aimed at assisting the IDC to generate additional R&D projects with Microsoft and other commercial end Users. The final delivery date for this unit needs to be determined with Microsoft. The Touchlight represents a novel touch screen technology that aims at providing a natural and intuitive bare hand interaction with 3d objects. TouchLight uses image processing techniques to combine the output of two video cameras placed behind a semi-transparent plane in front of the user. The resulting image shows objects that are on the plane. This technique is well suited for application with a projection screen material (DNP HoloScreen) which permits projection onto a transparent sheet of acrylic plastic in normal indoor lighting conditions. The resulting touch screen display system transforms an otherwise normal sheet of acrylic plastic into a high bandwidth input/output surface suitable for gesture-based interaction. Image processing techniques are detailed, and several novel capabilities of the system are outlined. For further details please see attached video clip: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=19174 7 EON I-Auditorium 8 EON Application areas Architectural Walk through - Architects and interior designers can communicate their designs to their clients through active real time walk through. While using the Icube, the customer is immersed in the environment and can walk or fly through the building, while selecting the right color for the walls and different design options. • Design Reviews - The ICUBE is the optimal tool used for each step in the process of the 'birth of a car' showing products in a scale 1:1 and enabling a bright and high-resolution visualization of Digital Mock-Ups (DMUs). The Cube Reality is also used in engineering evaluations allowing, for example, a better insight in the position of the different components under the hood. Installation difficulties and servicing issues can be detected long before the first prototype is manufactured. Rather than cutting metal, let virtual reality do the work for you. Use your creativity to make new products and let Cube Reality show you how these products will look in real life. Using EON Icube and EON Studio, you can interact with your products, choose from different design options, and yet maintain a realistic look. • Human Factors Studies/Tracking - EON Icube has the ability to integrate various tracking systems such as Intersense IS-900. Digital humans can be incorporated into the simulation in with full biomechanical modeling. Kinematics and inverse of kinematics are activated and the digital avatar becomes alive. Now, you can send this digital soldier to your vehicle, your battlefield, or to any other environment. One may also embed various cameras into the digital soldier's eyes, connect those into a head mounted display (HMD), and see what the soldier sees. • Plant lay-out - The ICUBE is used to address difficult layout decisions that could not otherwise be visualized. Imagine rearranging a plant layout interactively as a team effort. Instead of simple CAD models that show wire frame diagrams, the ICUBE shows a completely realistic rendered (i.e., colors, shading, and lighting) model. Participants can together select the plant area, choose the appropriate machines and components, arrange them in space, measure and see if they have sufficient space and explore a virtual tour in the planned space. • Other applications - Examples of other applications are: Scientific Visualization, Virtual Museums, Driving Simulation/Flight Simulation, Research, Medical imaging and visualization, Sales and product presentations, Event Presentations & Virtual Prototyping. 9 EON Software and Content Creation Tools The following software is included: Application Software - EON Professional EON Professional offers a robust set of features, building on the success of EON Studio TM, designed to meet specific application needs. The software enables the highest level of photo realism with the real-time Visual Effects Features, support for many native CAD and 3D/2D formats through the CAD feature including Catia, 3DMax, Maya etc. The Physics feature allows users to simulate complex mechanical systems in real-time and the Human feature allows for integration of highly realistic moving humans into EON applications. Finally, the new SDK feature allows advanced system integrators to implement support for their software and hardware within the EON Professional framework. - EON Icube 4 Wall Software (includes EON Studio) EON Icube software is an extension of EON Professional and includes features for interfacing with advanced display and integrated Virtual Reality systems. With Multi Wall Cluster Visualization, simulation can be viewed on several monitors simultaneously, each one displaying a different viewpoint of the scene, by using a cluster of fully synchronized PCs linked together in a local area network. The software supports edge blending and provides the capability to create full Icube Stereo images. The EON ICUBE Software also integrates seamlessly with all EON tools such as EON CAD for easy conversion of data and models from one publishing option to another as the same core data is used whether viewing in the ICUBE or on the Internet. The EON ICUBE Software Functionality includes: • Alignment of viewing frustum between view ports for perpendicular screens depending on tracked viewing position • Adjustment of Stereo-separation based on head position (viewing angle) • Support for all major types of tracking systems; such as optical, magnetic, ultrasonic and inertia based • Support for Wand interaction devices • Easy to use GUI to input screen dimensions, tracking system position and stereo-parameters for real-time viewport calculations • Easy-to-use interface that allows to open up any existing EON application using templates showing a fully immersive application • Allows for true scalability from web deployment to highest level of immersive device - EON Server EON Server is a modular based service for managing large product data sets, scientific models and repositories. See also Appendix I for more information. - EON SDK EON SDK is a C++ programming tool allowing for building custom run-time or design-time extension to EON Studio or Professional. EON’s Unique Advantages: • Scalable solution EON Products can be updated continuously through the Internet and extended on line. Customers can select products and be able to visually configure in real-time any accessory package or color, resulting in millions of potential combinations. • Dynamic loading and database integration EON has the capability to provide Dynamic loading of large textures, geometries and other content data from the server. In short, complex configurations can be built without having to download all components in advance, and any parts changes can be done on the server without modifying the configuration application. This is absolutely necessary for more sizable vehicle configurations, as it keeps the application size small for the end-user, and cost-effective to maintain and update changes. EON Server is a modular server-based solution for large 3D content and databases on the web and offline. • Real Time Texture Mapping and Scaling EON has a new feature of adapting textures in real-time such as mapping and scaling. This allows for enhanced design reviews in terms of packaging, surfacing etc. • Complete 3D configuration product EON Products provides a revolutionary approach to customers, employing a visually-driven sales configuration tool. Coupled with the integration capability, the financial estimator and quote process and customized brochure the sales process, is significantly streamlined. • Rapid content creation tools EON's ease of use, rapid interaction creation and re-usability provides tremendous content production cost savings. EON's content creation process utilizes a "drag and drop" approach of predefined behaviors, which explains the rapid content creation results. EON Studio is the complete development tool. • High visual quality & detailed models EON can render large geometry and detailed models. EON also has a proprietary advanced rendering engine (pixel and vertex shaders, reflections, shadows, environmental mapping, progressive rendering etc.). • Support for advanced peripherals EON automatically supports advanced peripherals such as joystick, pinch gloves, head mounted displays, voice command and control, and tracker system. This means that, for example, at an exhibit a customer will be able to interact with models in a Virtual Reality mode by either "grabbing" a car with the hands or joystick, or providing voice commands etc. • Support for advanced multi-media EON automatically supports video clips (.avi mpg movie etc) inside the simulation. For example, a real movie can be displayed on the DVD screen in the virtual car. EON automatically supports 3D sound, meaning that any sound will come from the correct direction, such as opening the left window while experiencing the car interior in the kiosk, the sound will come from the left speaker. • Web solution EON has a component base Internet solution, similar to e.g. Shockwave that utilizes a plug-in based viewer for users who are able to download and install a viewer. The installation is done once and then content can be viewed from multiple sources and applications built on EON. In case there is a software update only those components updated are replaced on the Client. • Support for stereo displays multi-wall systems Support for high resolution Stereo (Quad buffer) and multi wall high quality projections and stereo displays. This is possible, thanks to EON Icube, as it provides seamless publishing of high quality stereoscopic data on large screens for exhibits or product launches. • Proven track record of large scale implementations EON has a proven track record of creating the largest commercial 3D sales application deployments for companies such as: Office Depot, Suzuki, Tetra-Pak, Dell, Lexmark, Canon, Hon, Samsung, Shimano, Audi, Nokia etc. EON Reality provides the only solution that has all the technical features required to create an integrated, scalable, high quality 3D Sales Application. The following major 3D formats are supported by EON software: • 3ds max (.max) • 3D Studio (.3ds) • Alias (.wire, .tri) • AutoCAD (.dwg) • ACIS (.sat, .sab) • Catia v5 & v4 (.model) • Cg Material (.emt) • Cinema4d (.c4d) • DXF ASCII/Binary (.dxf) • IGES v5.3 (.igs, .iges) • Lightwave (.lw) • Maya (.ma, .mb) • Microstation (.dgn, .cel) • Okino (.bdf) • OpenFlight (.flt) • Pro Engineer (.prt, .asm, .slp) • Quickdraw 3D • Rhino (.3dm) • RPC Objects • SoftImage (.hrc, .dsc) • Solidworks (.sldprt, .sldasm)) • Solidedge v4 (.par) • STEP (.stp, .step) • Stereo Lithography .STL (.stl) • Strata StudioPro v1.75 • TrueSpace (.cob, .scn) • USGS DEM (.dem) • Unigraphics (.prt) • VRML (.wrl) An Object/Model Library of 1,500 ready to use EON objects in the following categories are included: • Aircraft • Animals • Architecture • Computers • Electrical • Food • Furniture • Geography • Historical • Household • Industrial • Medical • Military • Miscellaneous • Sci-Fi • Sports • Tools 10 Assumptions CUSTUMER will provide the following: • Detailed Layout/Drawing for visualization facility • Verify and make available agreed access routes based on screen size etc. by signing of on production screen drawing • Provide power per specification • Network support for setting up Graphics Server connected to on-site network 11 Project Work Flow The project will include the following major milestones. Specification: EON Reality will together with the CUSTUMER create a detailed specification based on needs and limitations that both parties will sign off on. Integration: EON will integrate and test all components at EON facility. Delivery: EON and CUSTUMER will coordinate and monitor delivery as well as confirm receipt of all components. Installation: EON will install and test all system functionality at CUSTUMER site. Training: EON will train CUSTUMER on location with regards to systems operation, maintenance and software management. Sign off: EON and CUSTUMER will jointly sign off and approve installation. Support: EON will provide support and maintenance per agreed contract. Appendix A: Definition of Terminology 3D – Three Dimensional Hot-spots – Clickable functionality such as open/close doors, drawers etc. 3D Stereo – Immersive stereoscopic viewing HDRI – High Dynamic Range Image (Ultra High Resolution/Quality Digital Image) Texture Map – Digital Photo or Rendering mapped on 3D geometry to create realistic look and feel Vertex/Pixel Shader – Computer Graphics scripting running directly on special Graphics Boards to enable advanced realistic materials Environmental mapping – Texture mapping (digital photo) of environment that can reflect into an object or objects Tracker system – Hardware for real-time positioning within a virtual environment/world Appendix G: IDC Consortium EON Reality, NVIDIA, Christie Digital and HP have formed a Strategic Consortium with the goal of establishing de facto standard for visualization solutions world wide: Contacts: • NVIDIA, Sheri Nimtz, Manager DCC Industry Marketing • Christie Digital Systems, Fluegeman, David, VP Christie Immersive Solutions Group • EON Reality, Mats Johansson, CEO • HP, Craig Fullman, Manager Visualization Group The IDC Consortium brings together technologies that enable sensory and visual based real time visualization. • Interactive Digital Reality: Product design imagination can be materialized and knowledge shared in a dynamic, responsive and hands-on fashion • Return on Investment By using IDC Consortium solutions companies can now effectively capitalize on existing investments in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) to increase sales, communicate product functionality more effectively, and decrease the cost of service, training and technical support, EON Reality brings the best photo realistic virtual reality quality and physics realism solution in the market today, and with EON 5.5 the fastest real-time rendering capability and conversion speed from CAD • Enriched Experience: The users can touch, sense reactions, view, hear and interact with the data in real-time • “We’ve worked with EON Reality to turn a cutting-edge prototype from our research lab into a marketable product” said Daniel T. Ling, corporate vice president of Research at Microsoft • Exciting Presentations: Immersive presentations grab immediately viewers attention generating wow reactions, thrilling experiences and joyful interactions • The IDC Consortium can provide fully integrated visual solutions for immersive environments in the Virtual Reality (VR) and simulation markets. Christie Digital brings the top projectors in the market, the NEW seamless automatic multi screens blending technology and the TotalView Technology • Faster Communication: Users understand much faster complex messages due to the sensory enhancing computer mediated communication capabilities • Effective Knowledge Transfer: Simulation based learning is improved by the hands-on experience and users remember the content longer • Brings life to Innovations: New products and concepts are enlivened and unleashed with the IDC Consortium solutions OC Innovation Forum Garcia, John Chairman Appendix H: Wiring Diagram for Main Components Appendix I: EON Server Whitepaper EON Reality, Inc., 2006 EON SERVER EON Server is a solution provided by EON Reality that enables configuration of running EON Applications. A typical EON Application consists of a number of 3D objects placed in a 3D environment. Distribution of an EON Applications is straightforward over the web, and by using the EON Server technology it’s very easy to distribute both large and configurable EON Applications. EON Server consists of two different parts, EON Dynamic Load and EON Track. EON Dynamic Load handles how parts, e.g. different 3D models, of an EON Application is downloaded and integrated into the 3D environment. EON Track enables tracking of user-defined events in a server-based database. In order to use the EON Server services there is also an EON License Server. This is available on the Internet or as a Stand-alone license, controlled by EON Reality and validates all use of the EON Server technology. EON DYNAMIC LOAD In order to use EON Dynamic Load, parts of an EON Application must be saved as EON prototypes (See EON Studio documentation for more info on EON prototypes). Each prototype contains any kind of EON functionality like 3D geometry, textures, behavior, scripting etc. The prototypes are stored in a prototype library files and placed on any web server or a hard drive. When the EON Application is running any number of prototype files may be downloaded and added to the running EON Application. It is possible to both load and unload (remove) the prototypes from a running EON Application. DISTRIBUTION OF LARGE EON APPLICATIONS Due to Internet bandwidth limitations it does take long time to download some large 3D applications. If the EON Application is larger than a couple of hundred kilobytes, users may find it time consuming to download. By using the EON Dynamic Load service it is possible to split the EON Application into smaller prototypes, typically 40-100 kilobytes each, and download the prototypes one after another. Each prototype can contain any EON functionality and all interactivity embedded in the prototype will be working as soon as it is downloaded. By using a sorted order of the download of the prototypes the 3D environment will be built in an attractive and functional way for the end user. CONFIGURABLE EON APPLICATIONS By using the EON Dynamic Load service it is not only possible to download predefined prototypes and embed in a 3D environment, it is also possible to let the user decide which prototype to download, and also unload any prototype. This creates limitless combinations of the 3D content in a running EON Application. Since the prototypes may be used in different EON Applications, it is very simple to reuse models. APPLICATION AREAS The number of application areas for EON Dynamic Load is very large, here is a short list of some typical applications that may be created. Remember that the number of objects that may be loaded is limitless; a very large catalog of 3D objects may be used as a basis for configuration. • Furniture configurator. Select a number of furniture objects in a regular web catalog, add them to an EON Application as prototypes, place them, select colors etc and create your own new office/room. • Home Builder configurator. When building new houses the customers always have to make a number of decisions like wallpapers, floors, kitchen cabinets etc. All these decisions can be made on the Internet and saved together with the order information. • Car or Motorcycle configurator. See how your car and the price changes as you decide which options you want. • Boat configurator. Boats are usually luxury and have a number of different options which all may be configured in 3D. • Large buildings/constructions. Download large buildings or constructions in small parts and let the user see the 3D environment grow as more details are downloaded. • Training applications for complex maintenance procedures with large machinery and equipment. E.g. machine tools, aircraft etc. USING EON DYNAMIC LOAD In order to use EON Dynamic Load on-line the following is required: • A valid license in the EON Server License Server • A number of prototype library files and/or texture files • A web server to host the prototype library files • An EON Application that uses the DynamicPrototype Node • Embedding the EON Application in a host software that can handle ActiveX controls, usually embedded in an html page using e,g, Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator PROTOTYPE LIBRARY FILES Prototype library files are created in EON Studio and are the same kind of prototype library files introduced with EON Studio 2.5. The file extension for these files is .eop. In order to create a prototype library file the steps must be performed: 1. Select a frame node in the simulation tree as start node for the prototype 2. Create a prototype of this start node by right clicking and select Create Prototype… 3. Select the Prototypes tab on a component window. If a component window is not open, then select New Component Window from the Window menu 4. Click New… in the Components - Prototype window 5. Select a file name and click Save 6. Drag the prototype from the local prototype window to the Component – Prototype window to store the prototype in the prototype library file. Only one prototype must be stored in each prototype library file. TEXTURES EON Dynamic Load also allows for switching textures. The use of textures is similar to prototypes, except the textures are created in other software such as e.g. Photoshop. WEB SERVER All prototype library files must be stored on a web server provided by the companies that are using the EON Server services. Any kind of web server can be used for this purpose. EON Server services uses the http protocol (TCP port 80) for downloading prototype library files in order to avoid firewall problems. The prototype library files and texture files must then reside in a base directory or any subdirectory below this base directory on a web server. The base directory is defined in the EON License Server. EON APPLICATION The EON Application will use the DynamicPrototype node for loading dynamic prototype files. This node has a PrototypeName field that holds the name of the prototype library file. This name may be set from inside EON Studio, which means that the prototype library file will be loaded upon start of the EON Application, or left empty and filled with a valid prototype library filename when the EON Application is running. When the EON Application is running it is always possible to change the PrototypeName field that means a new prototype library file will be downloaded and inserted to the running EON Application. There are also a number of different ways to control the download order (using script) and track current download status. In most cases a combination of logic between nodes, script nodes and JavaScript on a web page is combined to handle the logic for which prototype library files to download. EMBEDDING THE EON APPLICATION In order to use Dynamic Load services the EonX ActiveX control must be embedded in host software. Typical EON Applications that use the EON Server services places the EonX control on a web page. Both Internet explorer (4.0 or higher) and Netscape Navigator (4.04 or higher) are supported on the MS Windows platform. EON Applications are embedded the same way either they use EON Dynamic Load or not, there’s just one extra parameter passed to the EonX control, the base directory on the web server where the prototype library files are placed. The new enhanced EON Web Publisher released with EON Studio 3.0 creates all necessary code for publishing, only the base directory is necessary to set. Most web based EON Applications utilizing the EON Server services also need some control logic on the web page. The recommended way is to use JavaScript on the web page combined with in and out events from the EON Application. This way a response from the web server (generating web page(s)) can include references to prototype library files, which might be selected by the end user and downloaded/included in the EON Application. EON TRACK EON Track is a service that stores user-defined text in a database. The basic service includes possibility to store this text in a SQL database hosted by EON Reality. In EON Studio there is a node to handle this, Tracker. This node has five text fields that can be set with any kind of text and sent to the database using the SendInfoFields event. It is also possible to customize the behavior of the Tracker node in order to connect to any kind of database that can be reached through Internet. EON Reality offers this customization on consultant basis. The main purpose of this node is to track specific information about what the end user does while using the EON Application. This is similar to “banner clicking” where some company have to pay a small amount of money every time someone clicks on an advertising banner on a web page. However, the EON Track service also offers possibility to store any kind of selections or other events that the end user generates. A possible use for the five text fields in the Tracker node could be: 1. Name of the EON Application. If a user has more than one EON Application on the web, this will identify which of them that was used for this track record. Example: Car and Motorcycle for a Car or Motorcycle EON Application. 2. Now we assume we are using the motorcycle EON Application. Then the next text field could hold the brand of the Motorcycle selected. Example: Honda, Suzuki, Kawasaki, Yamaha, Harley Davidson, Triumph etc. 3. Lets say we picked a Suzuki motorcycle, in this case we want to know which model # was picked which e.g. could be any of GS750ES, GSX1100EF, GS1100G, GSX1100G etc.. 4. After selecting the favorite model (GS1100G) we’re about to select a part of this, let’s say we select the gas tank, which would be the fourth text field. 5. Finally we select a color of the gas tank, could be red and black. The example above shows one way to fill the fields on the database. The customer (who designs the EON Application) can then log into the database over the web and see statistics for selection the end users has made. It’s possible to see favorite colors etc. It is also possible to build a solution where counts on specific brands are made for further business. EON LICENSE SERVER The different EON Server on-line solutions are all using EON License Server, which is a client-server based solution for licensing the technologies. The EON License Server keeps track of number of sessions that is used by the license. It is possible to set a maximum number of sessions per month, or just a maximum number of sessions per license. The system also provides for possibility to order new amount of number of sessions. Each session is a start of an EON Application, usually when the end user goes to a web page containing an EON Application. The business model is based on a maximum number of sessions per month for a specific fee. The EON License server has two kinds of users available for customers, Provider User and Provider Administrator. The Provider User can only look at available sessions and other information, while the Provider Administrator can add/delete Provider Users and also order more sessions. For off-line use a traditional EON Flex-LM node locked license is needed. cheap software oem software

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EON Reality Reconfigurable 8 Wall Icube

Posted on November 09, 2008 in Windows xp pro oem

Proposal for Customer 1 Introduction This proposal is for equipping a Customers Location Exhibit with a high resolution fully immersive and Reconfigurable Icube display. The Reconfigurable Icube system is based on an eight channel immersive screen turn-key solution developed and integrated by EON Reality. This system can be used for visualization of large complex data sets or for commercial work such as product launches of aircraft, design reviews of interiors, focus groups, and configuration layouts. By incorporating the Icube system with existing design tools as well as EON development and VR run-time software technology, Customer 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 55 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 shader 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 2 Company Background General: • EON Reality, Inc. is a privately held US corporation, founded in 1999 • Resellers/support in 36 countries • Over 36 million EON-based 3D downloads on the largest e-tailing site in the world • Currently have 200,000 personal edition licenses distributed • Over 4,000 seats of EON installed commercial software installed worldwide • Fortune 500 companies that are utilizing EON include Lexus, Customer, American Suzuki, Toyota, John Deere, Siemens Medical, Whirlpool, Tetra-Pak, Atlas Copco, Dell, Bechtel, Harley-Davidson, Parsons Brinkerhof, Eastman Kodak, EPRI, Korea Power Corporation and Intel, see below for a few detailed examples: - http://www.eonreality.com/news/NewsFlash/news_flash102005.htm - http://www.eonreality.com/news/NewsFlash/Siemens.htm - http://www.eonreality.com/news/news_archive/press_releases11_15_04.htm - http://www.eonreality.com/news/NewsFlash/CAI_JohnDeere.htm - http://www.eonreality.com/news/NewsFlash/KioskMagazineAward.htm - http://www.eonreality.com/news/NewsFlash/news_flash012505.htm • Over 180 universities and educational institution licenses in 25 countries, including Purdue University, Cornell University, Wichita State University, Alberta College of Art and Design, Carleton University, George Washington University, Washington State University and UCLA. • EON has award winning 3D software technology including; - Best New Technology, Kioskcom, April 2004 - Kiosk of the Year, Kioskmagazine, June 2004 - Most Innovative Product, Kioskmagazine, July 2004 Organization: • CEO, Mats Johansson • CFO, Vaughn Merrill • Executive Vice President Sales, Dan Leijerskar • CTO, Nils Andersson • Business Development Manager, Sridhar Sunkad • Business Development Manager, Sean O’Brien • Product Manager, Jan Kjallstrom • Project Manager, Dennis Cafiero • Content Development Manager, Francisco Rodriguez • Application Development Manager, Josh Kolbeck • Installation Manager, Lenny Liu • Support Manager, Lloyd Churches Offices: • Headquarters: Irvine, CA • Development/Support office: Gothenburg, Sweden • Support/Sales Office: Chicago, IL • Support/Sales Office: Melbourne, Australia • Support/Sales Office: New Ark, NJ • Support/Sales Office: Cheshire, UK • All office locations are outlined in on-line RFP response 3 Equipment Specification The Icube solution proposed to meet Customer needs consists of the following: • Eight channel Graphics Server based on Nvidia Quadro Plex Model 1 architecture • Icube Reconfigurable Display wall • High fidelity DLP projectors • Cluster Run-time software • VR development/authoring software • Wireless tracking system and interaction devices • Stereo glasses • Installation, configuration; • Display system training; • Support and upgrades • Additional Equipment per RFP In addition to the above EON can provide additional display system options such as a mobile single screen VR display that you may wish to consider to enhance the visualization environment. Icube System Specification: Item # Product ID # Description Qty 1.1 ICUBER4 EON ICUBE RECONFIGURABLE 8 Projector 4-WALL SYSTEM: 1 3 Chip DLP Active/Passive 3D Stereo Projector, Mirage S+8K Christie Digital, Native Resolution 1400x1050, 8,500 ANSI Lumens Brightness, Power Lens Shift Vertical/Horizontal for Easy Alignment and Contrast Ratio 2,000:1 with a Fixed Lens 1.2:1 (L,R) Throw Ratio. 8 Integrated Projector Mounts with Alignment Controls for Rear Projection 5 Integrated Projector Mounts with Alignment Controls for Front Projection 3 Rigid Active/Passive Rear Projection Screen. Width 10 feet and Height 7.5 feet for each side screen segment. Screens are Optimized for EON Blended 3D Visualization using Acrylic Diffusion Coated White Tint 0.8 Gain Material. 1400x1050 Pixels per Screen. 2 Rigid Active/Passive Rear Projection Screen. Width 24 feet and Height 7.5 feet for Front Screen. Screen is Optimized for EON Blended 3D Visualization using Acrylic Diffusion Coated White Tint 0.8 Gain Material. 3360X1050 Effective Pixels After Blending. 1 Rigid Front Projection Floor Screen. Width 24 feet and Depth 7.5 feet. Screen is Optimized for EON Blended 3D Visualization using Special Coated (Anti Scratch) Acrylic Diffusion Coated White Tint 0.8 Gain Material. 3360X1050 Effective Pixels After Blending. 1 Structure: Aluminum extrusions, rigid frame for 4-Wall System U-Shape with Re-configurable Wings. 1 EON Icube Software for 8 Channels. 1 EON Professional: Includes EON Studio, Visual Effects, Human, EON CAD, Raptor (3ds max plug-in), EON Server, EON SDK and Physics Engine 1 TrackD 1 Icube Graphics Server: Includes Full Rack with Two HP Workstations min Dual AMD 64 Bit Workstation, 600Watts Power Supply, Supermicro H8DCE Dual Opteron with Gigabit/Audio onboard, 2 x AMD Opteron 254 3.0 GHz 1MB 64/32 Bit, 4GB Kingston 400MHz DDR ECC Registered WD 250 GB HD 7200RPM SATA2 16Meg Cache, Four Nvidia Quadro Plex 1000 Model 1 (includes eight genlocked FX5500 graphics cards 1Gb Graphic Cards with Two Quadro Plex Systems per PC-Node), Pioneer 16X DVD+/-RW Burner with Roxio Software, Sony DVDrom 16X IDE Drive, Mitsumi 1.44 with 6 in 1 Memory Reader, Firewire card, Microsoft Windows XP 32-bit Professional with Service Pak 2 Labor + Installation + 48 Hours Burning/QA Testing, (Up to 500 million triangles per second per channel capacity) and networking for EON cluster synchronization incl. KVM switch software, Matrix Switcher, longrange wireless keyboard and mouse and 2 SXGA+ 21" LCD screens with DVI Switcher 2 in and 8 out incl. all cabling. 1 Active Stereo Glasses 10 Active Stereo Emitters 6 Z-screen for Passive Stereo Mode for Projectors 8 Passive Stereo Glasses Terminator Style 50 Passive Stereo Glasses Clip-on Style 20 Surround Sound Dolby 5.1 System: Eight Speakers and Subwoofer incl. 3D Sound Support with Directional Sound Effects. Also Includes Rackmounted Amplifier and Three Wireless Microphones. 1 Interactive Devices: Intersense IS-900 SimTracker Wireless System with Extra Sonistrips to Manage a 24 feet by 10 feet and 7.5 feet Tracked Volume with Wireless Headtracker for Interaction and Viewing Frustum Updates and Wireless Wand for User Interaction and Navigation. 1 Wireless Long Range Wand (100 ft) for User Interaction and Navigation in Non Tracked Configuration 1 AMX 8400 Wall Mounted Wireless and 12" Table Top (for control room) Touch Screens for AV, Lighting and Peripheral Control, Cabling and Programming. 1 Matrix Switcher Equipment and Cabling 1 Installation, training, integration and alignment incl. expenses 1 Icatcher 100 Demo Library Including over 100 Advanced EON Application Examples incl. Source Code 1 Additional Equipment Specification Item # Product ID # Description Qty 1.2 MISC Additional Equipment: Mission Spare: 3 Chip DLP Active/Passive 3D Stereo Projector, Mirage S+8K Christie Digital, Native Resolution 1400x1050, 8,500 ANSI Lumens Brightness, Power Lens Shift Vertical/Horizontal for Easy Alignment and Contrast Ratio 2,000:1 with a Fixed Lens 1.2:1 (L,R) Throw Ratio. 1 PC Mission Spare: Icube Graphics Server (same specs as above in Icube) 1 PC Development Systems: Same specs as above in Icube but with one FX5500 card. 2 IS-900 MiniTrax Wireless Wand Package (for "shopping cart" verified that two wands can be used at same time) 1 Flat Panel LCD Display 21" with SXGA+ Native Resolution 2 USB Keyboard and Mouse 1 DVD Player with Multizone support, Dolby 5.1 and RS232 support 2 12" LCD Preview Monitor for Video 1 Video Scaler 1 Remote controlled CD Player with mp3 support 1 audio mixing console and audio monitors 1 Infocus LP860 with Native SXGA+ Resolution, Standard 1.5-2.2:1 Lens and 3,500 ANSI Lumens 2 Push to talk Microphone 1 Video Monitoring and Recording System (PC Based) 1 Immersive for Vega Prime Runtime (vp_immersive_rtl) including Vega Prime Runtime Environment (vp_base_rti) and Vega Prime Distributed Rendering Runtime (vp_dr_rtl) Note: Other modeuls may be needed if e.g. special effects and other advanced features are used. 2 Alias in Real-Time, Alias is currently developing a new product Alias called Showcase. This product is not currently released, no release date announced. 0 4 Graphics Engine – Quadro Plex Graphics Server EON is proposing an Nvidia based Quadro Plex 1000, Model 1 graphics engine together with two networked PC workstations, which allows driving the entire Icube (eight channels) off two computers each having two Nvidia Guadro Plex Model 1 systems connected . This way the cluster is minimized while optimizing performance with Eight FX5500 Graphics Cards each driving one display. Genlock is used internally in the Model 1 for optimal stereo synchronization between screens: Below key performance specs are outlined for the Quadro Plex Platform. NVIDIA Quadro Plex 1000 Model I Model II Model III NVIDIA Quadro NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 (2) NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2 (2) NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 SDI (2) Total GPUs 2 4 2 Total Frame Buffer 2GB (1GB/GPU) 2GB (512MB/GPU) 2GB (1GB/GPU) Option NVIDIA Quadro G-Sync NVIDIA Quadro G-Sync NVIDIA Quadro SDI Channels 4 dual-link DVI 8 dual-link DVI 4 dual-link DVI or 2 dual-link DVI + 4 single-link HD SDI or 2 dual-link DVI + 2 dual-link HD SDI Genlock/frame lock Y Y Y Frame Synchronization Y Y N HD SDI N N Y FSAA (Max per Channel) 32x SLI FSAA 64x SLI FSAA 32x SLI FSAA USB 2 Front Host Connection PCI Express x16, Small Form Factor, Passive (10W) 2M (6.5 foot) NVIDIA Quadro Plex Interconnect Cable Power 520W 100-240 VAC Autosensing Accoustics 40dB Form Factor Tower Desktop (9.49" H x 5.94" W x 20.55" D) or Rack Mount (3U H x 8.5" W x 20.55" D) Weight* 18.6lb See also Appendix E. Below is included a summary specification of the HP/Nvidia based Icube Graphics Server: • Active/Passive Stereo capable with Genlock • OS Windows XP (32 Bit): • 64-Bit AMD with minimum Dual 3.0 GHz; 800 MHz FSB; 2 MB L2Cache; Hyper Threading Technology 4 GB RAM (1) 220 GB HD (1) CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive 2 HD • Gigabit Ethernet on-board • Dual Quadro Plex NVIDIA FX5500G PCI Express graphics • 3D Capable Sound Board on Master Workstation Cabling for dedicated cluster Gigabit Ethernet; owner supplies all network cabling and connections and all serial, video, and audio cabling. Installation and connection; includes fully EON configured cluster compatible applications incl. set-up of templates for ease of use with various data sources. One of the substantial benefits is that it will be possible to run any non-cluster aware Windows application such as Powerpoint, Alias, Maya, Windows Media Player over up to four channels, e.g. Powerpoint on all three front channels. This has to do with that while using the Quadro Plex system one node (= one PC with two Quadro Plex) can extend a desktop over four monitors (channels). Other items for Graphics Server Set-up include: • Wireless Keyboard and Mouse • Two LCD Screens Native 1400x1050 Resolution • One ATEN VS-461 DVI-switch, 8 to 2 • Full Rack • Existing Min10 free Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch (provided by KCC) • KVM Switch Software (Synergy) 5 Projection System and Screen Technologies The display system will comprise of an eight channel (three walls and a floor), rear projected, active stereo Icube System driven by eight high quality DLP Christie Digital S+8K stereo projectors . Each projector has the following specification (see also Appendix F): • Light Output – 8,500 ANSI Lumens • Native Resolution – 1400 x 1050 Pixels • Contrast Ratio – 2,000:1 • Motorized horizontal and vertical offset • 3D 3-chip 0.95" Darkchip2™ DMD • Built-in light shutter • Built-in edge-blending • Comprehensive Color Adjustment (CCA™) • 100 VAC to 240 VAC +/- 10% @ 50/60 Hz • Power consumption: 2,000W maximum • Thermal dissipation: 6,825 BTU/hr • Operating current: 10A@200V A Christie Digital Z-buffer filter will be provided for each projector to enable passive stereo mode option. The Icube System consists of three rear projected screens and one front projected floor screen set-up in a U-shape. Each side wall screen can swing out from 90 -120 degrees compared to front wall screen. Icube Four Wall Projection Screen • Front and Floor screens each three channel blended 24 feet wide by 7.5 feet with two single channel side screens each measuring 10 feet by 7.5 feet. All measurements refer to projected image size (total 4 screens), see schematic below • Rear projection 3D stereo compatible Acrylic Diffusion Coated White Tint 0.8 Gain Material for three channel rear projection wall and single channel wings • Front projection 3D stereo compatible Acrylic Diffusion Coated White Tint 0.8 Gain Material and Special Coated (Anti Scratch and wear durable, transparent overlay for floor) • Flexible design allowing for easy configuration as per below • Rigid aluminium design • Mirror system to minimize throw distance • Maximum image gap between screens +/-1 mm • Bracket mechanism for reconfiguring of side screens between 90° - 120° and wheel caster at bottom for moving around, or change butt angle • Front screen and side screens are built as "Full Enclosures" retro box to eliminate projection light leaking, or ambient light affect the projection cone etc. See also Appendix B for complete drawings incl. two layout options, final layout will be decided after onsite visit. 3D Stereo Eyewear and Emitters • 6 pairs of emitters • 10 pairs of active stereo glasses • 75 Passive Stereo Glasses (Terminator and Clip-on) • 8 Z-screens for Passive Stereo Mode Uncompromising quality of the picture is a prerequisite for this experience of virtual reality. Active and passive stereo display technology fits in here since they represent a very bright and homogeneous stereoscopic picture in a full pixel dissolving. Due to the extremely high separation of the individual stereoscopic pictures, perception of depth is not impaired by double contours. Furthermore, no compromises are required between stereoscopic mode and resolution. With these qualities active stereo display technology creates new prerequisites for image generation in a visual High Fidelity quality. AV Equipment • Dolby 5.1 compatible surround sound system • Amplifier Harman Kardon AVR-645 • Infinity 5.1 Subwoofer • Infinity 5.1 Sound System with Eight speakers and wall brackets • Matrix Switcher CrossPoint 450 Plus 1616 HV with rack shelf • MediaLink™ Switcher MLS 100 A for Audio Switching • DVD Player Harman Kardon • Two wireless wearable microphones • One handheld wireless microphone • AMX 12” table top touch panel for control room and MVP-8400- Wireless 8.4" Touch Screen Interface, Table Top Docking Station, Power Supply 4.4 AMP, 12 volt, AMX Wireless Access Point and NI-4100 Controller • Projector Replacement Lamp and Filter Amplifier, DVD, Matrix Switcher and AMX Controller will be mounted in the Graphics Server Equipment Rack. All cabling such as RS-232 and connectors necessary for installation will be provided. In addition all equipment will be connected to UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply) system following APC standard. Cabling, Receiver, Transmitter and Video Scaler • Twisted Pair Tx/Rx for signal distribution between the Matrix and projectors as well as the computer input on the Conference Table (1000' spool Twisted Pair Skew Free Plenum cable) • MTP - Mini Twisted Pair Transmitter for RGBHV and Audio • MTP - Mini Twisted Pair Receiver for RGBHV and Audio • DVS - Four Input Video and RGB Scaler • Required VGA/BNC Cables for Connecting PC’s with Matrix Switcher • A Cable Cubby 200 will be used as a connectivity box on the Conference table in the Icube Room See wiring diagram below (see also Appendix H). Tracking System • IS-900 Sim Tracker Wireless system with (12) 3 6-ft. SoniStrips • Tracking Volume 24x10x7.5 feet • Two six-button MiniTrax wireless wands for user interaction (one for hand interaction and one for “shopping cart”) • One MiniTrax Head Tracker Advantages of the IS-900 technology include: • Immune to metallic, acoustic, and optical interference • Sensor design eliminates acoustic transmitter “line of sight” blockage • Consistent accuracy over entire tracking volume • Applications range in size from small cockpit simulators to large broadcast studios • One-time system calibration performed during initial installation with accurate position mapping of acoustic transmitters • Superior motion prediction algorithms • Wireless tracking devices • Integration of tracking devices into OEM applications Applications for IS-900 tracking system include: • Head/Hand/Instrument Body Tracking o Virtual reality o Flight simulation o Scientific visualization o Medical Imaging o Entertainment • Biomechanical/Human Factors Analysis • Rehabilitative Feedback & Assessment • 3D Graphics Control & Manipulation HVAC and Power Requirements Display System: • Power consumption: 16,000 W maximum • Thermal dissipation: 54,600 BTU/hr Graphics Server: • Power consumption: 3,600 W maximum • Thermal dissipation: 3,200 BTU/hr 6 Examples of Application Areas • Architectural Walk through - Architects and interior designers can communicate their designs to their clients through active real time walk through. While using the Icube, the customer is immersed in the environment and can walk or fly through the building, while selecting the right color for the walls and different design options. • Design Reviews - The ICUBE is the optimal tool used for each step in the process of the 'birth of a car' showing products in a scale 1:1 and enabling a bright and high-resolution visualization of Digital Mock-Ups (DMUs). The Cube Reality is also used in engineering evaluations allowing, for example, a better insight in the position of the different components under the hood. Installation difficulties and servicing issues can be detected long before the first prototype is manufactured. Rather than cutting metal, let virtual reality do the work for you. Use your creativity to make new products and let Cube Reality show you how these products will look in real life. Using EON Icube and EON Studio, you can interact with your products, choose from different design options, and yet maintain a realistic look. • Human Factors Studies/Tracking - EON Icube has the ability to integrate various tracking systems such as Intersense IS-900. Digital humans can be incorporated into the simulation in with full biomechanical modeling. Kinematics and inverse of kinematics are activated and the digital avatar becomes alive. Now, you can send this digital soldier to your vehicle, your battlefield, or to any other environment. One may also embed various cameras into the digital soldier's eyes, connect those into a head mounted display (HMD), and see what the soldier sees. • Plant lay-out - The ICUBE is used to address difficult layout decisions that could not otherwise be visualized. Imagine rearranging a plant layout interactively as a team effort. Instead of simple CAD models that show wire frame diagrams, the ICUBE shows a completely realistic rendered (i.e., colors, shading, and lighting) model. Participants can together select the plant area, choose the appropriate machines and components, arrange them in space, measure and see if they have sufficient space and explore a virtual tour in the planned space. • Other applications - Examples of other applications are: Scientific Visualization, Virtual Museums, Driving Simulation/Flight Simulation, Research, Medical imaging and visualization, Sales and product presentations, Event Presentations & Virtual Prototyping. 7 EON Software and Content Creation Tools The following software is included: Application Software - EON Professional EON Professional offers a robust set of features, building on the success of EON Studio TM, designed to meet specific application needs. The software enables the highest level of photo realism with the real-time Visual Effects Features, support for many native CAD and 3D/2D formats through the CAD feature including Catia, 3DMax, Maya etc. The Physics feature allows users to simulate complex mechanical systems in real-time and the Human feature allows for integration of highly realistic moving humans into EON applications. Finally, the new SDK feature allows advanced system integrators to implement support for their software and hardware within the EON Professional framework. - EON Icube 4 Wall Software (includes EON Studio) EON Icube software is an extension of EON Professional and includes features for interfacing with advanced display and integrated Virtual Reality systems. With Multi Wall Cluster Visualization, simulation can be viewed on several monitors simultaneously, each one displaying a different viewpoint of the scene, by using a cluster of fully synchronized PCs linked together in a local area network. The software supports edge blending and provides the capability to create full Icube Stereo images. The EON ICUBE Software also integrates seamlessly with all EON tools such as EON CAD for easy conversion of data and models from one publishing option to another as the same core data is used whether viewing in the ICUBE or on the Internet. The EON ICUBE Software Functionality includes: • Alignment of viewing frustum between view ports for perpendicular screens depending on tracked viewing position • Adjustment of Stereo-separation based on head position (viewing angle) • Support for all major types of tracking systems; such as optical, magnetic, ultrasonic and inertia based • Support for Wand interaction devices • Easy to use GUI to input screen dimensions, tracking system position and stereo-parameters for real-time viewport calculations • Easy-to-use interface that allows to open up any existing EON application using templates showing a fully immersive application • Allows for true scalability from web deployment to highest level of immersive device - EON Server EON Server is a modular server based service for managing large product data sets, scientific models and repositories. See also Appendix I for more information. - EON SDK EON SDK is a C++ programming tool allowing for building custom run-time or design-time extension to EON Studio or Professional. EON’s Unique Advantages: • Scalable solution EON Products can be updated continuously through the Internet and extended on line. Customers can select products and be able to visually configure in real-time any accessory package or color, resulting in millions of potential combinations. • Dynamic loading and database integration EON has the capability to provide Dynamic loading of large textures, geometries and other content data from the server. In short, complex configurations can be built without having to download all components in advance, and any parts changes can be done on the server without modifying the configuration application. This is absolutely necessary for more sizable vehicle configurations, as it keeps the application size small for the end-user, and cost-effective to maintain and update changes. EON Server is a modular server-based solution for large 3D content and databases on the web and offline. • Real Time Texture Mapping and Scaling EON has a new feature of adapting textures in real-time such as mapping and scaling. This allows for enhanced design reviews in terms of packaging, surfacing etc. • Complete 3D configuration product EON Products provides a revolutionary approach to customers, employing a visually-driven sales configuration tool. Coupled with the integration capability, the financial estimator and quote process and customized brochure the sales process, is significantly streamlined. • Rapid content creation tools EON's ease of use, rapid interaction creation and re-usability provides tremendous content production cost savings. EON's content creation process utilizes a "drag and drop" approach of predefined behaviors, which explains the rapid content creation results. EON Studio is the complete development tool. • High visual quality & detailed models EON can render large geometry and detailed models. EON also has a proprietary advanced rendering engine (pixel and vertex shaders, reflections, shadows, environmental mapping, progressive rendering etc.). • Support for advanced peripherals EON automatically supports advanced peripherals such as joystick, pinch gloves, head mounted displays, voice command and control, and tracker system. This means that, for example, at an exhibit a customer will be able to interact with models in a Virtual Reality mode by either "grabbing" a car with the hands or joystick, or providing voice commands etc. • Support for advanced multi-media EON automatically supports video clips (.avi mpg movie etc) inside the simulation. For example, a real movie can be displayed on the DVD screen in the virtual car. EON automatically supports 3D sound, meaning that any sound will come from the correct direction, such as opening the left window while experiencing the car interior in the kiosk, the sound will come from the left speaker. • Web solution EON has a component base Internet solution, similar to e.g. Shockwave that utilizes a plug-in based viewer for users who are able to download and install a viewer. The installation is done once and then content can be viewed from multiple sources and applications built on EON. In case there is a software update only those components updated are replaced on the Client. • Support for stereo displays multi-wall systems Support for high resolution Stereo (Quad buffer) and multi wall high quality projections and stereo displays. This is possible, thanks to EON Icube, as it provides seamless publishing of high quality stereoscopic data on large screens for exhibits or product launches. • Proven track record of large scale implementations EON has a proven track record of creating the largest commercial 3D sales application deployments for companies such as: Office Depot, Suzuki, Tetra-Pak, Dell, Lexmark, Canon, Hon, Samsung, Shimano, Audi, Nokia etc. EON Reality provides the only solution that has all the technical features required to create an integrated, scalable, high quality 3D Sales Application. The following major 3D formats are supported by EON software: • 3ds max (.max) • 3D Studio (.3ds) • Alias (.wire, .tri) • AutoCAD (.dwg) • ACIS (.sat, .sab) • Catia v5 & v4 (.model) • Cg Material (.emt) • Cinema4d (.c4d) • DXF ASCII/Binary (.dxf) • IGES v5.3 (.igs, .iges) • Lightwave (.lw) • Maya (.ma, .mb) • Microstation (.dgn, .cel) • Okino (.bdf) • OpenFlight (.flt) • Pro Engineer (.prt, .asm, .slp) • Quickdraw 3D • Rhino (.3dm) • RPC Objects • SoftImage (.hrc, .dsc) • Solidworks (.sldprt, .sldasm)) • Solidedge v4 (.par) • STEP (.stp, .step) • Stereo Lithography .STL (.stl) • Strata StudioPro v1.75 • TrueSpace (.cob, .scn) • USGS DEM (.dem) • Unigraphics (.prt) • VRML (.wrl) An Object/Model Library of 1,500 ready to use EON objects in the following categories are included: • Aircraft • Animals • Architecture • Computers • Electrical • Food • Furniture • Geography • Historical • Household • Industrial • Medical • Military • Miscellaneous • Sci-Fi • Sports • Tools 8 Assumptions Customer will provide the following: • Detailed Layout/Drawing for visualization facility • Verify and make available agreed access routes based on screen size etc. by signing of on production screen drawing • Provide power per specification • Network support for setting up Graphics Server connected to on-site network 9 Project Work Flow The project will include the following major milestones. Specification: EON Reality will together with the Customer create a detailed specification based on needs and limitations that both parties will sign off on. Integration: EON will integrate and test all components at EON facility. Delivery: EON and Customer will coordinate and monitor delivery as well as confirm receipt of all components. Installation: EON will install and test all system functionality at Customer site. Training: EON will train Customer on location with regards to systems operation, maintenance and software management. Sign off: EON and Customer will jointly sign off and approve installation. Support: EON will provide support and maintenance per agreed contract. Appendix A: Definition of Terminology 3D – Three Dimensional Hot-spots – Clickable functionality such as open/close doors, drawers etc. 3D Stereo – Immersive stereoscopic viewing HDRI – High Dynamic Range Image (Ultra High Resolution/Quality Digital Image) Texture Map – Digital Photo or Rendering mapped on 3D geometry to create realistic look and feel Vertex/Pixel Shader – Computer Graphics scripting running directly on special Graphics Boards to enable advanced realistic materials Environmental mapping – Texture mapping (digital photo) of environment that can reflect into an object or objects Tracker system – Hardware for real-time positioning within a virtual environment/world Appendix B: Base System Layout and Design Note Appendix C: Summary Specification and Pricing Continued… Appendix G: IDC Consortium EON Reality, NVIDIA, Christie Digital and HP have formed a Strategic Consortium with the goal of establishing de facto standard for visualization solutions world wide: Contacts: • NVIDIA, Sheri Nimtz, Manager DCC Industry Marketing • • Christie Digital Systems, Fluegeman, David, VP Christie Immersive Solutions Group • EON Reality, Mats Johansson, CEO • HP, Craig Fullman, Manager Visualization Group The IDC Consortium brings together technologies that enable sensory and visual based real time visualization. • Interactive Digital Reality: Product design imagination can be materialized and knowledge shared in a dynamic, responsive and hands-on fashion • Return on Investment By using IDC Consortium solutions companies can now effectively capitalize on existing investments in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) to increase sales, communicate product functionality more effectively, and decrease the cost of service, training and technical support, EON Reality brings the best photo realistic virtual reality quality and physics realism solution in the market today, and with EON 5.5 the fastest real-time rendering capability and conversion speed from CAD • Enriched Experience: The users can touch, sense reactions, view, hear and interact with the data in real-time • “We’ve worked with EON Reality to turn a cutting-edge prototype from our research lab into a marketable product” said Daniel T. Ling, corporate vice president of Research at Microsoft • Exciting Presentations: Immersive presentations grab immediately viewers attention generating wow reactions, thrilling experiences and joyful interactions • The IDC Consortium can provide fully integrated visual solutions for immersive environments in the Virtual Reality (VR) and simulation markets. Christie Digital brings the top projectors in the market, the NEW seamless automatic multi screens blending technology and the TotalView Technology • Faster Communication: Users understand much faster complex messages due to the sensory enhancing computer mediated communication capabilities • Effective Knowledge Transfer: Simulation based learning is improved by the hands-on experience and users remember the content longer • Brings life to Innovations: New products and concepts are enlivened and unleashed with the IDC Consortium solutions OC Innovation Forum Garcia, John Chairman Appendix H: Wiring Diagram for Main Components Appendix I: EON Server Whitepaper EON Reality, Inc., 2006 EON SERVER EON Server is a solution provided by EON Reality that enables configuration of running EON Applications. A typical EON Application consists of a number of 3D objects placed in a 3D environment. Distribution of an EON Applications is straightforward over the web, and by using the EON Server technology it’s very easy to distribute both large and configurable EON Applications. EON Server consists of two different parts, EON Dynamic Load and EON Track. EON Dynamic Load handles how parts, e.g. different 3D models, of an EON Application is downloaded and integrated into the 3D environment. EON Track enables tracking of user-defined events in a server-based database. In order to use the EON Server services there is also an EON License Server. This is available on the Internet or as a Stand-alone license, controlled by EON Reality and validates all use of the EON Server technology. EON DYNAMIC LOAD In order to use EON Dynamic Load, parts of an EON Application must be saved as EON prototypes (See EON Studio documentation for more info on EON prototypes). Each prototype contains any kind of EON functionality like 3D geometry, textures, behavior, scripting etc. The prototypes are stored in a prototype library files and placed on any web server or a hard drive. When the EON Application is running any number of prototype files may be downloaded and added to the running EON Application. It is possible to both load and unload (remove) the prototypes from a running EON Application. DISTRIBUTION OF LARGE EON APPLICATIONS Due to Internet bandwidth limitations it does take long time to download some large 3D applications. If the EON Application is larger than a couple of hundred kilobytes, users may find it time consuming to download. By using the EON Dynamic Load service it is possible to split the EON Application into smaller prototypes, typically 40-100 kilobytes each, and download the prototypes one after another. Each prototype can contain any EON functionality and all interactivity embedded in the prototype will be working as soon as it is downloaded. By using a sorted order of the download of the prototypes the 3D environment will be built in an attractive and functional way for the end user. CONFIGURABLE EON APPLICATIONS By using the EON Dynamic Load service it is not only possible to download predefined prototypes and embed in a 3D environment, it is also possible to let the user decide which prototype to download, and also unload any prototype. This creates limitless combinations of the 3D content in a running EON Application. Since the prototypes may be used in different EON Applications, it is very simple to reuse models. APPLICATION AREAS The number of application areas for EON Dynamic Load is very large, here is a short list of some typical applications that may be created. Remember that the number of objects that may be loaded is limitless; a very large catalog of 3D objects may be used as a basis for configuration. • Furniture configurator. Select a number of furniture objects in a regular web catalog, add them to an EON Application as prototypes, place them, select colors etc and create your own new office/room. • Home Builder configurator. When building new houses the customers always have to make a number of decisions like wallpapers, floors, kitchen cabinets etc. All these decisions can be made on the Internet and saved together with the order information. • Car or Motorcycle configurator. See how your car and the price changes as you decide which options you want. • Boat configurator. Boats are usually luxury and have a number of different options which all may be configured in 3D. • Large buildings/constructions. Download large buildings or constructions in small parts and let the user see the 3D environment grow as more details are downloaded. • Training applications for complex maintenance procedures with large machinery and equipment. E.g. machine tools, aircraft etc. USING EON DYNAMIC LOAD In order to use EON Dynamic Load on-line the following is required: • A valid license in the EON Server License Server • A number of prototype library files and/or texture files • A web server to host the prototype library files • An EON Application that uses the DynamicPrototype Node • Embedding the EON Application in a host software that can handle ActiveX controls, usually embedded in an html page using e,g, Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator LICENSE The license can be set up in a number of different ways, please see the EON License Chapter for more information. PROTOTYPE LIBRARY FILES Prototype library files are created in EON Studio and are the same kind of prototype library files introduced with EON Studio 2.5. The file extension for these files is .eop. In order to create a prototype library file the steps must be performed: 1. Select a frame node in the simulation tree as start node for the prototype 2. Create a prototype of this start node by right clicking and select Create Prototype… 3. Select the Prototypes tab on a component window. If a component window is not open, then select New Component Window from the Window menu 4. Click New… in the Components - Prototype window 5. Select a file name and click Save 6. Drag the prototype from the local prototype window to the Component – Prototype window to store the prototype in the prototype library file. Only one prototype must be stored in each prototype library file. TEXTURES EON Dynamic Load also allows for switching textures. The use of textures is similar to prototypes, except the textures are created in other software such as e.g. Photoshop. WEB SERVER All prototype library files must be stored on a web server provided by the companies that are using the EON Server services. Any kind of web server can be used for this purpose. EON Server services uses the http protocol (TCP port 80) for downloading prototype library files in order to avoid firewall problems. The prototype library files and texture files must then reside in a base directory or any subdirectory below this base directory on a web server. The base directory is defined in the EON License Server. EON APPLICATION The EON Application will use the DynamicPrototype node for loading dynamic prototype files. This node has a PrototypeName field that holds the name of the prototype library file. This name may be set from inside EON Studio, which means that the prototype library file will be loaded upon start of the EON Application, or left empty and filled with a valid prototype library filename when the EON Application is running. When the EON Application is running it is always possible to change the PrototypeName field that means a new prototype library file will be downloaded and inserted to the running EON Application. There are also a number of different ways to control the download order (using script) and track current download status. In most cases a combination of logic between nodes, script nodes and JavaScript on a web page is combined to handle the logic for which prototype library files to download. EMBEDDING THE EON APPLICATION In order to use Dynamic Load services the EonX ActiveX control must be embedded in host software. Typical EON Applications that use the EON Server services places the EonX control on a web page. Both Internet explorer (4.0 or higher) and Netscape Navigator (4.04 or higher) are supported on the MS Windows platform. EON Applications are embedded the same way either they use EON Dynamic Load or not, there’s just one extra parameter passed to the EonX control, the base directory on the web server where the prototype library files are placed. The new enhanced EON Web Publisher released with EON Studio 3.0 creates all necessary code for publishing, only the base directory is necessary to set. Most web based EON Applications utilizing the EON Server services also need some control logic on the web page. The recommended way is to use JavaScript on the web page combined with in and out events from the EON Application. This way a response from the web server (generating web page(s)) can include references to prototype library files, which might be selected by the end user and downloaded/included in the EON Application. EON TRACK EON Track is a service that stores user-defined text in a database. The basic service includes possibility to store this text in a SQL database hosted by EON Reality. In EON Studio there is a node to handle this, Tracker. This node has five text fields that can be set with any kind of text and sent to the database using the SendInfoFields event. It is also possible to customize the behavior of the Tracker node in order to connect to any kind of database that can be reached through Internet. EON Reality offers this customization on consultant basis. The main purpose of this node is to track specific information about what the end user does while using the EON Application. This is similar to “banner clicking” where some company have to pay a small amount of money every time someone clicks on an advertising banner on a web page. However, the EON Track service also offers possibility to store any kind of selections or other events that the end user generates. A possible use for the five text fields in the Tracker node could be: 1. Name of the EON Application. If a user has more than one EON Application on the web, this will identify which of them that was used for this track record. Example: Car and Motorcycle for a Car or Motorcycle EON Application. 2. Now we assume we are using the motorcycle EON Application. Then the next text field could hold the brand of the Motorcycle selected. Example: Honda, Suzuki, Kawasaki, Yamaha, Harley Davidson, Triumph etc. 3. Lets say we picked a Suzuki motorcycle, in this case we want to know which model # was picked which e.g. could be any of GS750ES, GSX1100EF, GS1100G, GSX1100G etc.. 4. After selecting the favorite model (GS1100G) we’re about to select a part of this, let’s say we select the gas tank, which would be the fourth text field. 5. Finally we select a color of the gas tank, could be red and black. The example above shows one way to fill the fields on the database. The customer (who designs the EON Application) can then log into the database over the web and see statistics for selection the end users has made. It’s possible to see favorite colors etc. It is also possible to build a solution where counts on specific brands are made for further business. EON LICENSE SERVER The different EON Server on-line solutions are all using EON License Server, which is a client-server based solution for licensing the technologies. The EON License Server keeps track of number of sessions that is used by the license. It is possible to set a maximum number of sessions per month, or just a maximum number of sessions per license. The system also provides for possibility to order new amount of number of sessions. Each session is a start of an EON Application, usually when the end user goes to a web page containing an EON Application. The business model is based on a maximum number of sessions per month for a specific fee. The EON License server has two kinds of users available for customers, Provider User and Provider Administrator. The Provider User can only look at available sessions and other information, while the Provider Administrator can add/delete Provider Users and also order more sessions. For off-line use a traditional EON Flex-LM node locked license is needed. cheap software oem software

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