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I'm bill hubscher and I'm Lori Meggs on

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this edition of focus on Marshall find

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out how the newest Marshall facility is

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helping students all across the country

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learn how to become engineers and even

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astronauts but before Lori gets suited

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up we're going to show you how the

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latest individual technology is helping

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Marshall engineers design the next

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generation of watch vehicle we're in

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building 4600 in the cedar room and are

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joined by Don Krupp who's the chief of

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the vehicle analysis branch first of all

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done thanks for joining us today thank

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you let's start with well this room it's

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called the cedar room but I don't see

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any cedar wood anywhere no obviously not

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cedar is an acronym for the

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collaborative engineering and design

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analysis room the purpose of this room

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is to allow engineers from different

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disciplines to come in and interactively

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bring their data and information and

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share it and collaborate with other

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engineers to make their product make

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their design even better than it would

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typically be tell us a little bit about

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the the technical aspects of the room

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and how it fits in with your mission to

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do the interactive collaboration we have

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a variety of display capabilities we

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have two plasma displays and then really

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the center point of this room is our

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projection wall we have an eight by 20

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foot screen with dual projectors behind

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it this wall these projectors can

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display either two separate images or

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one contiguous image to be able to

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collaborate we also have the ability for

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various folks within the room to switch

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and display their data on any of these

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displays another key feature of this

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power wall is that the projection

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capability allows us to do stereo vision

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or virtual 3d we have two methods to do

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that we can either do it with the old

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red blue glasses like from the movies or

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we have the higher tech active glasses

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that allow the video to be interlaced

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between eyes to do stereo vision so for

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example we can bring up the design the

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computer aided design model of park or a

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stage and then rotate it around and

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visualize it in three dimensions instead

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of just the typical to two-dimensional

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static presentation this is a very large

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project that of course you're working on

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you've got lots of workstations for the

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people here to be able to manipulate it

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but what about the engineers who are at

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the other centres across the agency

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during the construction of this we

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thought about collaboration with other

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either NASA centers or projects or

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contractors and so we do have some

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capability to do interaction with other

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centers we have video telecom capability

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of its equipment we also have the

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ability to project across the internet

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through the web we've also done some

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prototyping of collaborating with models

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and simulations across various centers

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where we would bring up the model and

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control here for viewpoints or to

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highlight various aspects of it and

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another Center could then take that same

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model and get control of it from their

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perspective and show and be able to

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project their point of view are there

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concerns too so that we get the

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interaction to get an even better design

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that we were typically yet so they would

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manipulate it on there and and you'd be

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able to see it here on the wall correct

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absolutely correct what's the future you

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see of what you plan to do with this

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room as well as some of the the

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additions you want to make to it a

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couple of the additions is we want to

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continue looking for ways to enhance the

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collaborative nature of this room better

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visualization capabilities but also the

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ability to probably part to look at

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bringing in other sensory information

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such as audio information turning

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engineering data into audio signals that

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could support and enhance the

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understanding of the design and the

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engineering analysis you get some Dolby

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surround sound in here too then

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absolutely well done we appreciate you

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taking the time to talk with us