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 | | | | rapidly growing out of date.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