Pulling Together Graphics and Data With SGI's FusionVUE

Part of Silicon Graphics, Inc's amazing new technologyportable device.
suite, VUE, is a new visualisation suite which it callsNow, FusionVUE also enables a 3D Camera or other
FusionVUE.sources to be interactively moved around on what's
FusionVUE has been designed to harmonize with thecalled the VUEspace (the 3D contextual visual
way the human brain naturally works--somethingenvirons on the screen) simply by using a mouse
many of us will really appreciate, since there's largelykeyboard combo or a network command
been an antagonistic interface for doing higher levelprotocol.Again, clients can interact directly with a
work that demands tons of visuals and visual detail.design team; they get intuitive command of the
Unlike the way computers "naturally" work, the braindisplay environment. They can bring visual data
is a god of the contextual landscape--so, we absorb"closer" to them, do fly-throughs and fly-arounds, and
and process information fastest and best in context,really help the product design team or researcher to
and the more dynamic that context the better forknow precisely what they need done.
the product designer, engineer, whomever.SGI has also now brought us application reach-back
Say goodbye to data overload as you now accessthat not only can seamlessly collate data and info
real-time data flowing into a visual environmentfrom different sources no matter how remote, but
supported by cutting-edge SGI network commandeven different operating systems are no trouble. The
protocols and API. Visually streaming meta-data nowwork team and the client don't have to worry about
gets quickly and seamlessly integrated into newremote applications wrecking the big picture--making
designs, even if that information has to first bethis capability a time-saver as well as a cost-saver.
provided by a client. So, with the dynamic integrationHighly complex data sets and information streams all
that SGI's FusionVUE enables, multiple visualget brought together so that all users can
information from multiple sources coming in over theimmediately make sense of it all.
Net from anywhere on the planet can getAnd again, this is all a 3D environment that Silicon
dynamically displayed. This makes it so that clients,Graphics' FusionVUE is letting us all operate within
too, can take an active role in a product's design,now. I for one am very pleased to see SGI returning
easily interacting with a professional design teamto form with what it does best--graphics, after all, is
that's using an SGI workstation. The client can gaintheir middle name.
access from any computer or graphics-supporting