Silicon Graphics, Inc. is really pushing the technological and personal computing/communication envelope with its cutting edge VUE software suite. With the world and its global economy moving ever more into the virtual office environment and telecommuting, SGI’s VUE could not come at a more opportune time for the company or a more crucial time for businesses and computer-based design professionals.
The amount and speed of data, graphics, and information exchange that are possible, and increasingly needed, are growing beyond the current capabilities of the usual business and design software, even that which, til now, has been the most advanced. VUE has been put together by SGI in order to address the critical need to facilitate this new level of design and communications technology.
Do professionals working together all around the world need to view new designs or exchange new data? SGI’s VUE facilities that and takes the virtual office to another level. There’s interaction in real time, yet the different users can, for instance, change the visual perspective of the same data on their own monitors yet still be interacting with their compatriots across the sea and land. They can then send their revisions or changes to their fellows, who receive them instantaneously in real-time.
SGI’S patented technologies are enabling end-users to enjoy real-time collaboration on a global scale and immerse themselves in perspectives online and on the computer screen that are the same as in the real world: intuitive, contextual, and dimensional. SGI has been making use of the fact that humans primarily process information visually.
The visual-audio matrix informs us of nearly everything we know about. Yet, the business and manufacturing worlds have been immersed in abstraction when it comes to computer programs and electronic communications. The highly structured, non-visual data processing systems that are in place today aren’t going to be able to keep up with the rapid advancements taking place in everything from national defense to biotechnology to ever-evolving personal computing product designs; conversions from design or process descriptions to animation and visual depictions are even advancing in the direction of interactive holography. What we’ve been using is rapidly growing out of date.
VUE works with PDAs, personal computers, notebook computers, mainframe design workstations, even advanced cellphones like the Apple iPhone or the Touch Diamond. You can use it from anywhere as long as you can get a high speed Internet signal, and different people using different devices in different places all over the planet can be instantly in touch and interact instantaneously on the screen in ways that are realistic and immediate, not abstract.
Today’s advancing graphics processors have to deal with a compression environment, because pixellation development has not been keeping up with the amount of “triangles” that can be used to create original models. But SGI’s VUE has been designed to change all that.
