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Mobile FLEX Design Takes High Resolution Stereo Mobile, Allows Four-Hour Set-up, Easy Reconfiguration from 30’ Theater for Large Audience Presentations to Immersive Room for Interactive Data Review: Mechdyne Corporation announced today the general availability of the Fakespace Mobile FLEX, a transportable, immersive display system that can be set-up for operation in four hours. With three moveable, wall size screens and floor projection, the MobileFLEX is ideal for trade events, data review and demonstration environments. Its rugged integrated design offers the features and quality of Mechdyne’s popular FLEX reconfigurable display, but packs into and rolls out of a standard shipping trailer. Mechdyne has already delivered one system and is accepting orders for more. Mechdyne designed the Mobile FLEX to make monoscopic and stereo display technology more accessible in a wide range of data viewing and venue situations. The system is comprised of three connected, rear-projected modules. Each module has 10-ft wide by 7.5-ft tall screen, and an equal size projected floor can be placed in front of the center module as required. The side walls can be quickly reconfigured by one person to create a thirty foot wide presentation screen for large audiences, or an immersive theater when the side walls are angled. The wall and theater configurations allow for one continuous thirty foot image, or two or three separate images, to be displayed across the modules. With the side walls closed into an open-ended room configuration, viewers become immersed in data, with imagery on three walls and the floor. “The Mobile FLEX was designed in response to demand for a highly transportable, rapid set up display system from customers that have realized the value of permanent visualization systems and now want to take their imagery to remote locations for even greater benefit,” said Kurt Hoffmeister, Vice President of Research and Development at Mechdyne Corporation. “The easily transportable and flexible system broadens the potential user scenarios for immersive and theater-style displays.” Standard equipment with the Mobile FLEX includes a motion tracking system that monitors the viewer’s position and adjusts the imagery in real time, creating a realistic sense of presence with virtual data. Trackd, an interaction device driver middleware provided by Mechdyne’s software division, VRCO, enables motion tracking and hand-held navigation wands within selected applications. VRCO offers an optional software module, Conduit, that enables interactive and immersive viewing features in popular applications such as Catia, Delmia and Enovia V5, Pro/ENGINEER, Google Earth Pro, AutoDesk Maya and 3ds Max as well as ESRI’s ArcScene and ArcGlobe. Additional information and a video demonstration of the Mobile FLEX can be found at its Web site.