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What happens when high-tech chocolate company meets high-tech research lab?\u00a0 FXPAL is investigating virtual and mixed reality systems for collaboration and control\u00a0 in industrial settings. We are working with TCHO Inc., a chocolate start-up in San Francisco, to build and instrument virtual representations of a real, working factory and its processes.<\/p>\n

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The TCHO Factory floor, in the Qwaq Forums virtual environment<\/p><\/div>\n

Introducing our collaborator:\u00a0 TCHO of San Francisco <\/a> is a new kind of chocolate company, combining innovative methods and a sense of social mission with a commitment to creating obsessively good dark chocolate. Founded by a Space Shuttle technologist and a grizzled chocolate industry veteran, TCHO<\/span>\u2019s aim is to create a direct, transparent connection between cacao farmers and consumers, illuminating \u2013 and sometimes reinventing \u2013 the chocolate production process at every step to the benefit of everyone concerned.<\/p>\n

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For a process as complex as making great chocolate, this kind of clarity and accuracy is vital.\u00a0 We see this collaboration as a way to apply emerging technologies in clarifying end-to-end industrial production processes. It’s also interesting from a consumer’s perspective: a way to innovate in bringing people closer to the products they consume, through combining industrial process data with social applications like virtual worlds.<\/p>\n

We’re experimenting with new technologies for fine-grained monitoring, mobile process control, and real\/virtual collaborations based on real users and real-world problems in manufacturing industries. In the process, we are finding new applications for existing technologies, as well as insight into real-world needs in globally distributed systems and ways to use new technologies to map complex, real world processes.<\/p>\n

As our work progresses, we’ll add more specific updates here on the FXPAL blog.<\/p><\/div>\n

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