Media for VR (projection, HMDs, etc.)

Simulated mixed environments are virtual environments augmented by real work equipment. A range of media are used for their presentation. For studies and trials employing virtual reality for occupational safety and health (OSH) purposes, the IFA makes use of:

• A laboratory with a 24 m² projection screen (SUTAVE Laboratory)
• A small VR laboratory with a 6 m² projection screen (SUTAVE MiniLab)
• A mobile projection facility for demonstrations (SUTAVE Mobile)
• Smartglasses and head-mounted displays for individual viewers (SUTAVE HMD).

In the IFA's SUTAVE Laboratory, users are immersed in virtually infinite working worlds - of today and the future - with the aid of a 24 m² projection area.

Two further systems exist:

• SUTAVE HMD is used to project work situations in front of users' eyes by means of a head-mounted display: the panoramic view of the virtual worlds appears almost limitless.
• SUTAVE MiniLab and SUTAVE Mobile are used for demonstrations away from the IFA's site. They display the same virtual working worlds as SUTAVE Laboratory, but on a smaller projection area. SUTAVE Mobile is a wearable virtual environment with virtual work situations "to go".

For specific OSH applications, SUTAVE Laboratory and SUTAVE Mobile are supplemented by projections with SUTAVE HMD - enabling the prevention activity of tomorrow to be designed today.