SEG in San Antonio

I just got back from SEG (Society of Exploration Geophysicists) in San Antonio. The society is focused on the exploration of oil and gas. It was an impressive show that included a half dozen booths sporting more square footage than my house. It is always fun to show the StereoMirror technology to a new group of people. Hearing "wow", "cool", "oh my goodness" and exclamations unprintable in a family friendly blog make me really glad I have this job. We found a conglomerate of stereo enthusiasts that use 3D visualization for seismic interpretation. My hope is that developing some corporate relationships with companies that provide the visualization software, building a base of SD monitor customers and simply learning about this industry of interpretting complex 3D data will allow Planar to provide a valuable display solution to this market.

A number of people/companies that use the immersive "cave" visualization rooms told us that the stereo image quality of the StereoMirror was superior to anything they had seen. I believe our monitors would be a nice accompaniment to the stereo rooms by allowing content to be created, editted and monitored. Others would like to use the SD monitors as a high quality, less expensive replacement of the "caves".

Stereo-what?

If you are curious about how stereoscopic displays work, we have put together some great resources on this topic. Check out Stereoscopic 101 and several comparison grids showing the pros and cons of various stereoscopic/3D display technologies.