Modeling light propagation and its impact is crucial for measuring product performance and human comfort, perception and safety. Ansys Optics & VR uniquely simulates a system’s optical performance and evaluates the final illumination effect, predicts and validates the impact of lighting and material variations on appearance and perceived quality all in real conditions. Visualize your product before it exists to deliver the ultimate virtual customer experience
Optics & Virtual Reality
Optical System Simulation Software
Optical Simulation in a New Light
High Level Features
Let Ansys Optics & Virtual Reality optical simulation software lead you to the best solution, no matter the style of your project. The software easily solves complex optical problems and refines visual appearance for perceived quality. Significantly elevate final product quality with true-to-life visual experiences and combine design and engineering processes into a single, connected workflow. Prepare and appraise virtual prototypes of a cockpit HMI in a real-time, immersive VR environment. Or, simulate for optical sensors on autonomous vehicles with the diversity offered by Ansys Optics & Virtual Reality
Optics and VR
The 2022 R1 release delivers powerful capabilities that speed time to result, improve simulation accuracy and expand interoperability with other Ansys products.
- LightField, a new Ansys file format to facilitate the storage and sharing of pre-computed intermediate simulation results for sub-structures within an optical system to improve simulation time and allow for block-box sharing between suppliers and their customers for improved performance and IP protection.
- Surface property plug-in capabilities to allow for custom optical surface models written in C++ or Python (including third-party material descriptions such as from Ansys Lumerical FDTD).
- Several productivity enhancements including parameter manager, preset manager, UX enhancements, and the accelerated import of CATIA projects.
- Speos now offers GPU Compute delivering dramatic improvements to simulation performance (benchmarks indicate a 140x to 260x speedup on average) with no loss in accuracy and with an unprecedented performance to cost ratio.
- New post-processing to better model dynamic scene effects such as roller shutter and motion blur.
Webinars
Optics & Virtual Reality (VR) Products
Experience light simulation for optical system optimization and validation in an intuitive and comprehensive user interface within a multiphysics environment
- Lighting system performance
- Optical design optimization
- Advanced optical analysis
- Human vision
- Simulate sensor vision
- HUD design and analysis
VRXPERIENCE Light Simulation connects Ansys’ physics-based lighting simulation software with Autodesk’s automotive 3D visualization and virtual prototyping software
- Create powerful and innovative lighting systems
- Establish uniquely identifiable light signatures
- Visualize future products before production in Autodesk VRED
- Accelerate the design decision-making process
Significantly elevate final product quality with true-to-life visual experiences using interactive virtual reality and 360-degree virtual reality offline simulation with dynamic lighting control
- 360 VR offline simulation with dynamic lighting control
- Raytracing for reflection simulation
- SPEOS Live Preview for 100% true-to-life optical simulation
Prepare and appraise CAD-based virtual prototypes of a cockpit HMI in a real-time, immersive virtual reality environment
- Visual experience in virtual reality
- Advanced ray-traced lighting
- Head-up display simulation
- Virtual interactions
- Embedded software-in-the-loop
Capabilities
Ansys Optics & VR predicts the illumination and optical performance of systems while allowing you to visualize future products in virtual reality. Experience physics-based light simulation to understand how your products look under real-world lighting and usage conditions. A mix of virtual prototyping and interactivity allows for the safe optimization of optical sensor layouts for autonomous vehicles
Ansys physics-based imaging, illumination and optical design simulation software streamlines the design process to better understand how your product will perform under real-world lighting and usage conditions.
When customers evaluate your products, the overall look and details can make the difference. Simulate light interactions with materials so you can see how your product will appear in real-world conditions, letting you see eye to eye with your customers and making decisions.
Optical sensors are the eyes of any intelligent system. Assess raw signals from camera and lidar systems in their operating environments. Post-process simulated data to optimize sensor layouts on vehicles in dynamic driving conditions.
Use real-time, interactive and immersive environments to experience your prototype in virtual reality on a 1:1 scale. Ansys VRXPERIENCE offers customized driving scenarios for testing on virtual HMIs, considering human factors analyses and cognitive workloads.
"What makes it different from the traditional development style is that we can prepare a concept in a stage where an area around the light has not yet been designed, which leads to cost optimization. For example, Mazda engineers can use simulation to optimize an automobile lighting mount design for mass production, which saves time and money."
CASE STUDIES
VIDEOS
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Illuminate Your Design with Ansys VRXPERIENCE Light Simulation
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A Digital Journey to a Safer Drive with Ansys VRXPERIENCE
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How to Optimize Aircraft Interior Lighting, Material and Colors Using Ansys VRXPERIENCE
Ansys SPEOS Helps You See Optical Simulation in a New Light!
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Making the Cockpit of the Future a Reality via Optimized Human-Machine Interfaces -
How to Design, Optimize and Validate Safe Laser Headlamps Through Virtual Experimentation -
Delivering Engineering-Grade Light Simulation to Automotive Designers -
Shedding New Light on UVC Disinfection -
Managing Changing Quality Needs in Automotive and Consumer Product Industries -
An Integrated Simulation Platform to Validate Autonomous Vehicle Safety -
Perform Efficient and Robust Design Optimization of Optical Systems
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