The VRGeo Consortium is a consortium of the international oil and gas industry. The main goal of this consortium is the development and evaluation of interactive hardware and software technologies for visualization systems in the oil and gas industry.
The work in the VRGeo Consortium is addressing oil and gas integrated visualization and interpretation workflows from personal to presentation environments spanning the continuum from tablet-PCs to desktops to small collaboration scenarios to large scale solutions.
Major challenges and objectives are:
Advanced Visualization, Rendering and Data Representation
Novel Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Paradigms and Technologies
Small and Large-scale Collaborative Environments
The VRGeo 2012 R&D Agenda as defined by the VRGeo Consortium Steering Committee includes the following topics/projects:
Interaction
Large Geo Data Visualization
Volume Rendering Benchmark
VR/Graphics Hardware
Performance Comparison of Remote Desktop Solutions
Conduit to the Fraunhofer Universe
For oil & gas companies, the VRGeo Consortium is a perfect forum to share experiences, ideas, challenges, and resources for basic research.