Stereoscopic 360° ship bridge simulator for Shanghai Maritime University
Case study
Shanghai Maritime University is one of China’s leading-edge maritime universities. For its proposed maritime simulation building, Barco was chosen to install China’s first stereoscopic, twelve-channel ship bridge simulator.
SMU chose Barco as prime contractor because of their excellent reputation as a developer of integrated systems with the highest quality. The proposed solution was a twelve-channel stereoscopic system with a 360° field of view, an image height of 5.5m and screen length of 70m (radius 10m). Twelve Barco Galaxy 12 HB+ projectors with Active Infitec stereo capabilities drive the system in front-projection, while a special Barco xRACU remote control takes care of automatic realignment, color and brightness adjustments.
The Galaxy system is optimized for system integration through several typical Barco technologies, such as edge blending, which eliminates seams where projections from two projectors converge, or DynaColor and linked constant light output (CLO), which ensures one image free of differences in color and brightness levels. A very important feature in the Galaxy projectors is their geometry correction technology, that takes care of warping the images around the 360° curved screen without distortions, in seamless overlap.
The stereoscopic ship bridge simulator is currently used by the University as well as third parties for a multitude of training applications.
About this project
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| Date | October, 2007 | ||||||
| Location | Shanghai, CHINA | ||||||
| Press releases | Shanghai Maritime University contracts Barco for first stereoscopic, 360° ship bridge simulator (en) |
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