Schneider Digital - Global Overviews of Stereoscopic Software Solutions

Professionals across high-tech industries including molecular research/biochemistry, geoinformation (photogrammetry, GIS & LiDAR), construction (CAD, CAM & 3D printing) or medicine (CT, MRI & Ultrasound) – often struggle to identify the applications available in the market that are capable of stereoscopic rendering, as opposed to monoscopic, flat perspective rendering, thereby enabling a true, spatial 3D visualization.

After two years of intensive research, Schneider Digital, a company renowned for its professional 4K/8K and VR/AR hardware solutions, in collaboration with leading software manufacturers, has for the first time published a global market overview of all relevant 3D stereo software solutions. A community-based database, updated monthly, currently lists over 300 applications along with their manufacturers and links. Schneider Digital initially checks each application for its basic 3D-stereo functionality and then certifies them individually for plug&play operation with its 3D-monitors or the smart VR-wall.

This overview provides an open platform for users and software manufacturers alike, where they can easily find a stereoscopic software solution tailored to their needs.

With the continuous updating and maintenance of this central database, which consolidates all globally relevant 3D-stereo software applications, Schneider Digital, as a specialist for 3D and VR/AR hardware solutions, provides users with a constantly updated guide on how their work process and visualization quality can be enhanced through the use of 3D-Stereo technologies. An explicit goal of the Miesbach-based company is to effectively assist as many software manufacturers as possible in integrating the stereoscopic mouse pointer into their existing monoscopic applications, besides the stereoscopic image output option, thus enabling users to directly access any point, surface, and edge in the 3D space. Schneider Digital has been putting substantial resources towards this pioneering work for two years now. The result is a hardware and manufacturer-independent "open source compendium" for all software manufacturers and users. The global market overview clearly shows at a glance which of the offered software applications are truly natively 3D-stereo capable. Specifically – _"which software is capable of rendering models accurately, holographically as real 3D objects in space and which software already has a 3D-Stereo cursor"_? 

Cross-industry compendium of 3D-Stereo Applications

In pursuit of the vision to create a comprehensive market overview of all relevant 3D-Stereo Applications, Schneider Digital has tested more than 300 software applications for 3D-Stereo functionality. Most of these have already been certified by the company for operation with its own, passive 3D monitor systems, the 3D PluraView models.

Available at the download link https://www.3d-pluraview.com/en/areas-of-application#supported-software, ready-for-use software solutions from industries such as Geo-IT, Medicine, CAx, DCC/CGI, and Bio-Tech. The applications are sorted by software and areas of application, and listed in alphabetical order along with the names of their respective manufacturers and links. With the help of this overview, software manufacturers and users can easily and conveniently find a solution tailored to their requirements. Further expansion of the compendium with video tutorials for 3D-Stereo configuration settings, as well as a database of all suitable stereoscopic, professional graphics card solutions, is also planned. Project initiator Josef Schneider sums up the vision of the project: 

_"Our vision is the continuous expansion of this market overview into a complete, community-based database of all relevant 3D-Stereo Applications worldwide. In addition to listing all manufacturers and applications, we also want to integrate the corresponding documentation, how-to’s, and video tutorials for software configuration."_

Over 300 3D-Stereo solutions at a glance

The majority of the over 300 software solutions have been extensively tested for 3D-functionality by Schneider Digital and certified for operation with 3D monitors or power walls. The "Geospatial" category includes leading 3D software applications such as Esri, Hexagon, Bentley, Trimble, DAT/EM Systems, and Terrasolid. In the "Medical" category, there are 3D-Slicer software from KITWARE, the 3D application Stereotaxy from Brainlab, Vesalius3D, as well as the 3D software syngo.foursight TEE & Cinematic Anatomy from Siemens. All 3D software applications listed in the overview are widely used solutions for demanding visualization. For construction and modeling in the CAx area, there are 3D-Stereo solutions, e.g., from Autodesk, Dassault Systems, PTC, Siemens, and ESI. Autodesk, Blender, Dassault Systems, KeyShot and Lumiscaphe offer professional 3D software solutions for design and rendering. "The aim is to make stereo technology more widespread in the market for use with professional applications. We want to further establish the advantages of working and visualizing in 3D in the most important industry applications," says Josef Schneider, summarizing the benefits of the market overview.

The market overview compiled by Schneider Digital with its more than 300 "real" 3D stereo-capable applications therefore offers users and software manufacturers an important orientation aid. Users can download the list of 3D-capable software applications from the company's website. Anyone whose 3D stereo software application is not yet on the list and would like to be included can contact Schneider Digital by e-mail.

Direct download of the market overviews:

3D stereo applications by application area

3D stereo applications by software manufacturer

Complete 3D stereo workstation solutions - a combination of powerful software and hardware

Working with holographic 3D models is becoming increasingly established in applications such as research, analysis, development, construction, design and diagnostics. A 3D monitor is now the industry standard for all stereoscopic software applications because it guarantees precise 3D stereo visualization in the highest resolution of up to 4K per eye. It is used in a wide variety of industries, such as photogrammetry, GIS/mapping, LiDAR point clouds, laser scanning, oil and gas prospecting, archaeology, AEC/BIM, visualization of 3D city models, CAx, medical and biotechnology and molecular chemistry. 3D visualization technology is a complex subject area that only leads to one hundred percent industry-compatible visualization results through the perfect interaction of software and hardware components. Schneider Digital has over 25 years of industry and product experience with sophisticated professional hardware and has detailed market knowledge and application expertise. Schneider's experience has shown: The combination of calculation performance and visualization technology is crucial!If you use a 3D stereo software solution and want to work stereoscopically or with VR/AR, you need a powerful CPU/GPU hardware solution. Only in perfect interaction with powerful professional hardware can landscapes, buildings, entire cities, complex CAD models, GIS infrastructure, industrial processes or human anatomy be processed and visualized three-dimensionally, in detail and smoothly. The larger the data sets to be processed, the higher the demands on the performance of the workstations and the image quality of the 3D monitors. Professional users with demanding 3D work tasks benefit from Schneider Digital visualization technology in combination with high-performance workstations and 3D/VR/AR input devices as a complete workstation solution.

Schneider Digital Josef J. Schneider e. K.
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83714 Miesbach
Germany

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Schneider Digital - The company:
Schneider Digital is a global full-service solution provider for professional 3D stereo, 4K/8K and VR/AR hardware. Based on its 25 years of industry and product experience and its excellent relationships with leading manufacturers, Schneider Digital offers innovative, sophisticated professional hardware products and customized complete solutions for professional use. Qualified advice and dedicated after-sales service are the company's own standards.

The Schneider Digital product portfolio includes the right professional hardware solution for the respective requirements in these areas: High Resolution 4K/8K-to multi-display walls. Schneider Digital is the manufacturer of its own Powerwall solution smartVR-Wall and the passive stereo monitor 3D PluraView. Performance workstations and professional graphics cards from AMD and NVIDIA as well as innovative hardware peripherals (tracking, input devices, etc.) round off the range. Many items are in stock. This guarantees fast delivery and project realization.

Schneider Digital is an authorized service distributor of AMD FirePRO/Radeon Pro, PNY/NVIDIA Quadro, 3Dconnexion, Stealth int, Planar and EIZO. Schneider Digital products are primarily used in graphics-intensive computer applications such as CAD/CAM/CAE, FEM, CFD, simulation, GIS, architecture, medicine and research, film, TV, animation and digital imaging.

Further information can be found at www.schneider-digital.com and www.3d-pluraview.com.

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