Future Internet Workshop
23.March.2011
Charles Fraresso
Future Internet Workshop, Topical
• - About Christie
• - Value of Advanced Visualisation as a medium for “Transforming
Understanding” in Research and Innovation.
• - Opportunities for innovation in Advanced Visualisation.
• - Current and Future Trends
• - Christie and “The Communitech Hub” as a collaborative and
accessible facility
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You may have heard of us like this…
…however, have you seen us like this?
2008 Beijing Summer Olympics – Opening Ceremony
Christie Roadster S+20Ks delivered bright images on the globe totaling 160,000 ANSI lumens.
Quebec 400th Anniversary:
27 Christie Roadster S+20Ks create a continuous image measuring 657m (2/3 a kilometer) long by
33m (108 feet) high on Port of Quebec’s 81 monumental Bunge company grain elevators .
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ETC is a company that does large scale projection with Christie.
– Shell Tower, London & Chartres Cathedral, France
Nos
Festivités de la St-Sylvestre à Londres (New Year’s Eve festivities, London) – Production : Jack Morton Worldwide - Images : ETC London – Photos : D. Morrell
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Weill Cornell Medical College, Manhattan, NY
World’s first high-definition design used for molecular
modeling, medical diagnosis, and scientific research.
AT&T Global Network Operations Center, New Jersey
NASDAQ, New York
About Christie, Christie Worldwide
Canada
UK Germany
France Hungary
Spain Italy
USA
Korea
China
UAE
India
Singapore
Chile
South
Africa
Aprox. 1200 employees worldwide
Christie Visual Solutions and Innovations
Entertainment
Solutions
Digital Cinema
Projectors for 20’ to
80’ screens
Image processors,
theatre automation
70% Market Share
in Digital Cinema
Projection
Business
Products
Wide range of DLP
and LCD projectors
Markets/Application
s:
• Corporate
Presentations
• Education
• Houses of Worship
• Events & Large
Venues
• Advertising &
Digital Signage
• Broadcast Markets
Includes the world’s
brightest digital
projector
Visual
Environments
Control Rooms
• Demanding 24/7
Applications
• Command & Control
Centers
• Operations Centers
• Utility and Telecom
• Surveillance
• Broadcast
Managed
Services
Full Service
Organization
• consultation
• site preparation and
implementation
• help desk services
• remote monitoring and control
• preventative servicing
• Round-the-clock, 24/7 support
Advanced
Visualization
• Aerospace
Life
sciences
• Architecture
Manufacturing
• Automotive
Museums
• Education
Scientific
research
• Government Homeland
security
Simulation
• Oil & gas exploration
•• Theme
Flight simulation
parks
Control Tower
• Ship-bridge simulators
• Vehicle driving
Civil
aviation
• Homeland security
• Training simulation
• Medical simulation
Network Operations
Centre
• Located in Cypress California
• Monitoring of over 32,000
devices
• Monitors 830 locations across
the United States and Canada
• 180 Field Technicians and
Operators
CONFIDENTIAL
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Christie
Medical
Christie Medical
Innovations is a global
company based in
Memphis, Tennessee
that discovers,
develops, and
commercializes
medical technologies
Our market-leading
product, VeinViewer®,
is a mobile vascular
imaging system that
allows healthcare
providers to clearly see
accessible vasculature
in real time directly on
the surface of the skin.
Advanced Visualisation: What is Value of this Technology ?
Transforming Understanding
Taking the “Conceptual”
-By far, organisations invest a great
proportion of their R&D energy into
the development and understanding
of content.
- Central to content development is
human understanding, perception
and communication.
Taking the “Conceptual”, and making it “Experiential”.
-Informing perception with
experience can be an
invaluable tool in affirming or
arriving at new conclusions.
- Inspires the imagination as a
driver in perception and as
these are drivers for
innovation.
- Further, consider the value
of Communicating ideas
through experience to teams,
stakeholders and customers.
4 Concepts to transforming understanding
4 Concepts to transforming understanding
- A sense of Scale
- Greater perception of relationships
- Enlarged comprehension
4 Concepts to transforming understanding
- A key element of
perception is depth and
relative relationships.
- “Rendered” 3D shows
shape.
-“Stereoscopic 3D”
reveals perceived depth.
4 Concepts to transforming understanding
-First person perspective tracking and interaction
is essential to the individual experience.
- Interacting with data sets from the viewer-centric
perspective is critical in engaging the viewer in the
visualisation.
- Focus is on the intuitive quality of the interaction
and not the tools of the interaction.
4 Concepts to transforming understanding
- When “me” becomes “we”.
- Shared understanding,
especially diversity in
understanding as a key
component to innovation.
- Oil and Gas examples, where
well-head designers peer review
with well operations staff,
virtually.
And it’s so easy….even a child can understand
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Who is utilising this?
Design,
Engineering,
Manufacturing
Life Sciences
Exploration and
Research
Government
Prototyping, Product
Design
Medical – Research
Oil and Gas
All branches Armed
Services
Aerospace
Medical - Clinical
Department of Energy
Most Intelligence Agencies
Automotive
Medical – Surgical
Rehearsal
Statistical evaluations
Border Services
Architecture
Psychology research and
therapies
Manufacturing Prototyping
Biotech and Genome
research
Finite Element Analysis
Technology “ingredients”
Application Node
Optional Tracking System – Motion Parallax
Optional Audio
Video to Projection
IR-Emitter Synchronised to
Projector
3D Glasses – Vision Parallax
Current Technologies: Overcoming historical barriers
Create Native
Content
Create Native
Content
Custom
development in
Developer Kit
for environment
“Middleware”
Technology for Open
GL applications
Immersive and
Interactive
Experience
Immersive and
Interactive
Experience
-Not process intuitive
- Not Time Synchronised
- Specialised Labour
-Not process intuitive
-Time Synchronised
- Specialised Labour
Future Evolutions and Trends...
Seemingly un-related technologies are simultaneously
evolving, creating opportunities where complimentary
technologies intersect.
- Internet collaboration technologies
- Interactive and gesture technologies
- Content management technologies
“Avatar Effect” or 3Dism making this technology more
desirable and in effect widening the base of the “pyramid”
and creating new markets for adoption.
The widening of this base will help encompass new
opportunities in the “lower realms” of the technology where
“accessibility” is important. Evolving technologies will
heighten the peak of the pyramid creating new “fusion”
technologies in the higher realms.
Christie and The Communitech Hub
Christie is a founding partner and supporter of this innovative facility
Concepts:
Tech Community: It’s about the people in the eco-system.
> Larger and mature technology organisations and Academic Institutions:
--- RIM, Open Text, AGFA, Desire2Learn, COMDEV, Christie
--- University Waterloo, Conestoga College, Wiflred Laurier University
> Startup Companies focused on digital media technologies
---- Gaming, Video, Cloud Computing, Social Media, Interactive Technologies.
> Support Partners:
---- Legal, Financial Services, Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors, Marketing, etc…
High “potential energy” for innovation in the concept of community. “Kinetically” this may
happen as people collaborate and interact in the community. Where complimentary
technologies intersect, what new technologies will be envisioned and thus created?
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Christie and The Communitech Hub
Digital Media Technologies: It’s also about the technology
- Christie has implemented many of it’s higher forms of Viz
Technology.
- Making this technology accessible by removing the “capital cost”
roadblock.
--- Putting this technology in the hands and minds of new
generations of potential users.
-Making this technology accessible by removing the “Tool
Development Kit” customisation roadblock and implementing that
“middleware” technology.
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Christie and The Communitech Hub
Christie is a founding partner and supporter of this innovative facility
Concepts:
Key Point:
Tech Community:
It’s about the people in the eco-system.
> Larger and mature technology organisations and Academic Institutions:
just
about
“Technology
ideas”
(though Christie
that is a part of it),
--- RIM, Not
Open
Text,
AGFA,
Desire2Learn,
COMDEV,
--- University Waterloo, Conestoga College, Wiflred Laurier University
Importantly,
> Startup Companies focused on digital media technologies
This is
whatCloud
“our” Computing,
customers are
looking
for,Interactive
and this isTechnologies.
what “your”
---- Gaming,
Video,
Social
Media,
customers are looking for.
> Support Partners:
Thus
innovation
may occur
through
informed
relationships
based
on
---- Legal,
Financial
Services,
Venture
Capitalists
and Angel
Investors,
Marketing,
etc…
greater “shared” awareness of market needs and intelligence, and opens
the doorenergy”
to multi-dimensional
relationships.
High “potential
for innovationcollaborative
in the concept
of community. “Kinetically” this may
happen as people collaborate and interact in the community. Where complimentary
technologies intersect, what new technologies will be envisioned and thus created?
Digital Media Technologies: It’s about the technology
- Christie has implemented many of it’s higher forms of viz technology.
- Making this technology accessible by removing the “capital cost” roadblock.
- Making this technology accessible by removing the customisation roadblock and
implementing that “middleware” technology.
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Pollock Executive Briefing Centre
-Rear Projected Glass Screen
-Monoscopic (2d) and Stereoscopic (3D) Projection
-Christie Spyder enables multiple sources simultaneously, a
digital media “canvas”.
-Full Audio, Webcam services
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HIVE (Highly Interactive Virtual Environment)
- HD Projection, aproximately 24 M pixels 6m x 3m x 3m
-Monoscopic (2d) and Stereoscopic (3D) Projection
-Christie Spyder enables multiple sources simultaneously, a
digital media “canvas”.
- 6 Camera optical tracking system
-Full 8 channel Audio with individual spatial rendering.
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Christie Microtile Display
-30 Microtiles arranged in the “Out-of-the-Box”
design as well as the “Ribbon” design.
- 2 separate Image Generators for simultaneous
content delivery
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The Tannery Event Space
- 4 WUXGA Mirage 18,000 Lumen Projectors
-Monoscopic (2d) and Stereoscopic (3D) Projection
-Christie Spyder enables multiple sources simultaneously, a
digital media “canvas”.
- 12 Channel Audio with Voice Reinforcement
- 3 Web Cam locations
- Fully Automated Touch Panel system for pre-configured
displays
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The Hub and the CDMN
The Hub is a microcosm bringing
innovators and technologies
together collaboratively.
The CDMN seeks to be a larger
macrocosm creating similar
“Hubs” across the country and
building linkages and
relationships between hubs.
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In Conclusion
- Very open to exploring opportunities to
utilise Advanced Visualisation, and to
innovate in this area
- Hub: State of the art Technology, making it
accessible.
-Hub: State of the art Community, the value
of innovative and collaborative
relationships.
- How the Communitech Hub might play a
role in developing new technologies
through relationships with you.
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Thank You
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July, 2008