A new RFI (Request for Information) has come of the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Lab, looking for information on virtual reality hardware and software for training and operations.

Department of Energy Pacific Northwest National Laboratory – Battelle (DOE Contractor) PNNL Contracts Sources sought for information regarding Virtual Reality and other visualization tools INTRODUCTION: The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), is seeking information from companies, educational institutions, research and development laboratories (public and private), or other sources about commercially available systems, government available or near-commercial technologies that may be used for the development of next generation, information immersive operator environments for industry.

Focused mainly on off-the-shelf solutions, it’s a pretty wide net looking for usability standards, human factors, interoperability, maintainability, expandability, standards compliance, certifications, and more.  Read the RFI Here.

via STLB VIRTUAL REALITY AND OTHER VISUALIZATION TOOLS.