Fort Lauderdale, FL - Wednesday,
February 27, 2002 - Quantum3D®, Inc., announced today
at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Winter Symposium
that Reality by Design, Inc. (RBD), An Advanced Interactive
Systems Company, has selected Quantum3D to provide the realtime
embedded visual computing system for use in its Land Warrior
Virtual Training System. Reality by Design is developing the
synthetic environment embedded simulation and training application
under contract from STRICOM for the US Army. The Quantum3D Land
Warrior system features Quantum3D's new Sentiris™ PCI Mezzanine
Card (PMC), the most advanced embedded graphics subsystem available
today. Sentiris is based on the recently announced NVIDIA®
Quadro4 embedded GPU and marks the industry's first commercial
off-the-shelf (COTS) graphics subsystem based on NVIDIA technology.
Reality by Design selected the
Sentiris-based computer system because it provided the high-performance,
image quality and low-power consumption required by the Land
Warrior helmet-mounted display for the digitized warrior.
"We needed a powerful embedded 3D system
in a small form factor that could be used on this man-worn solution,"
said Paul Barham, vice president, Reality by Design. "Quantum3D's
entry into embedded systems, notably the new Sentiris PMC with
NVIDIA Quadro technology, meets our performance and power needs
today and provides a roadmap that enables us to upgrade as new
technology becomes available."
The focus of the U.S. Land Warrior program
is to equip the modern ground soldier with the most advanced
gear and improved equipment for communications, surveillance
and friend-or-foe identification capabilities, along with biological
threat detection. Reality by Design is implementing the embedded
virtual training system to enable the solider to perform critical
mission rehearsal while en route to a tactical objective. The
virtual training system, based on the RBD SVS2-DI™ system
also assists the soldier in fully understanding the advantage
afforded him by the advanced situational awareness provided
by the Land Warrior system. With the RBD system, soldiers are
trained to react quickly and precisely to the information presented
by the Land Warrior system.
"Quantum3D is a market share leader in
open architecture visual computing systems for institutional
and appended training applications. Working with Reality by
Design on an embedded training system for Land Warrior is a
great extension of our new efforts in embedded systems with
NVIDIA," said Ross Q. Smith, Quantum3D co-founder and vice
president of sales and marketing. "With the potential for
thousands of embedded infantry training systems over the next
few years, we see a significant opportunity for our company
in working with Reality by Design to provide equipment for our
ground forces.
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Sentiris PCI Mezzanine
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Sentiris PMC
Quantum3D's Sentiris is the first PMC that brings the power
of NVIDIA GPU technology to COTS embedded visual computing applications.
Based on NVIDIA's new Quadro4 GPU, Sentiris delivers higher
performance and better image quality than any PMC available
in the market today - with anti-aliased line and full scene
anti-aliased texture map performance that far surpasses PMCs
based on competitive graphics chipsets. Sentiris supports NVIDIA's
unique nView™ architecture, which provides dual, independent
outputs - with both digital (LVDS/DVI) and analog outputs at
up to 2048 x 1536 resolution with 32-bit color and Z-buffering.
For sensor, camera and other advanced video functions, Sentiris
also includes advanced video-in and video-out functionality,
with support for color space conversion, scaling and overlays
for NTSC, PAL, S-Video and RS-170A formats.
Designed for open architecture applications,
Sentiris supports OpenGL® 1.3 under both Intel® IA32™
and PowerPC® architecture systems under Microsoft® Windows®
(IA32 only), Linux and popular real time operating system (RTOS)
environments. Sentiris is compliant with IEEE P1381.1 and is
compatible with VME, CompactPCI, PC-104+, and other single board
computers equipped with IEEE P1381.1 compliant PMC connectors.
Sentiris takes advantage of the Quadro4's PowerMizer™ technology
to deliver unsurpassed graphics performance with power consumption
and thermal dissipation well under 10 Watts - a power and thermal
envelope previously limited to simple frame buffer and entry
level graphics technologies. Sentiris is available in both convection
and conduction-cooled models (per VITA 20-199x). Sentiris is
also designed to meet the rigorous shock and vibration requirements
of Mil-Std-810E and EMI/EMC requirements of Mil-Std-461D, which
makes it perfect for the hostile environments found in deployed
ground vehicle, marine, avionics and man-portable applications.
Sentiris' underlying Quadro4 graphics technology
is the most powerful embedded graphics processor ever developed.
Equipped with a 128-bit wide interface to 64MB of high-performance
DDR memory, Sentiris is capable of delivering over 2.6 million
anti-aliased lines per second, over 3.4 million triangles per
second and over 400 trilinear filtered Megapixels/sec, which
surpasses competitive PMCs based on 3DLabs® Permedia3™
technology by over 500 percent.
About Reality by Design
RBD, an Advanced Interactive Systems Inc (AIS) Company, designs
and produces state of the art simulation tools and products
for distributed simulation in three-dimensional (virtual) environments.
It is engaged in a broad range of research and development projects
involving networked interactive simulations. AIS provides training
courses and cutting edge judgment training simulators to law
enforcement and military organizations worldwide. Through its
subsidiary, AIS Ltd., AIS also designs and builds anti-terrorist
and other special application training facilities for military
and special operations groups, with installations in 32 countries.
For more information, please see www.rbd.com
and www.ais-sim.com.
About Quantum3D
Quantum3D develops and markets integrated interactive PC-based
3D visual computing systems and software for the visual simulation
and training market and realtime 2D/3D graphics subsystems and
software for avionics, ground vehicle and other embedded, realtime
information system applications. Quantum3D's AAlchemy™,
Obsidian® nV and Graphite™ scalable family of open
architecture PC-IGs include mission critical features, industry
leading performance, superior graphics and image quality, and
unsurpassed value. In addition, Quantum3D creates and distributes
realtime development software tools and products that enable
developers to fully optimize their applications to benefit from
the company's visual computing solutions. Quantum3D is also
the exclusive supplier of NVIDIA graphics technology (see http://www.quantum3d.com/press%20releases/09_11_01_farsightnv.htm)
into the embedded, realtime information system market. Quantum3D
is a privately held, venture-backed company headquartered in
San Jose, CA. For more information, please see www.quantum3d.com.
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AAlchemy, Graphite, and Quantum3D are trademarks of Quantum3D,
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