Being part of taking a giant step into the unknown

2018-09

The European Spallation Source ESS – part of ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium) – in Lund, Sweden, is the European multi-disciplinary research facility that by 2025 will be using powerful spallation processes for advanced research.

At the current construction stage of the world’s largest particle accelerator, the engineers at ESS needed a visualization solution for the detailed planning of upcoming contruction phases and decision-making. Engineers wanted, singly and in a small group of multiple users, to interact with their large and detailed Catiabuilt-models, visualize possible issues, evaluate and discuss construction solutions and plan building details. A VR-solution was required.

As the ESS is under construction, provisional offices are located in temporary three-storey modular buildings, portable solutions well-known for being space effective. The VR-room was planned in one of these rooms located on the top-floor. Both the limited accessibility and the limited available space in the visualization room-to be, were going to affect the VR-solution: the VR-equipment had to fit in the compound’s small elevator, be able to pass through several standard-sized doors and the entire VR-solution had to fit into the small office, without compromising image quality and interaction requirements.

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