Optics and VR Capabilities

Optical Design and Analysis:

Get everything you need to simulate, optimize, and tolerance your optical designs. Design high-confidence virtual prototypes that you can thoroughly analyze before manufacturing.

Optical Design and Analysis:

Ray Tracing

Ray tracing is a fundamental feature in Zemax that simulates the path of light rays through an optical system. This allows designers to understand how light behaves within their system.

Ray Tracing

Lens Design and Aberration Analysis

Design of lenses with various shapes and properties while optimizing lens parameters to achieve desired optical performance.

Analyzing and correcting optical aberrations, to reduce deviations from ideal optical behavior that can affect image quality.

Lens Design and Aberration Analysis

Physics-Based Light Simulation

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.

Physics-Based Light Simulation

Virtual Prototype/Visual Appearance for Perceived Quality

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.

Virtual Prototype/Visual Appearance for Perceived Quality

Optical Sensors for Autonomous Vehicles

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.

Optical Sensors for Autonomous Vehicles

Interactively Assess HMIs

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.

Interactively Assess HMIs

Optics and VR Products

Ansys Zemax

Discover new ways to turn innovative ideas into products that shape the world. Ansys Zemax is the standard for optical, illumination, and laser system design in leading companies throughout the optics industry and at universities around the world.

  • Optical Design and Analysis
  • Ray Tracing
  • Lens Design
  • Aberration Analysis
  • Illumination Design
  • Non-Sequential Mode
  • Integration with CAD Software
  • Tolerance Analysis
  • Filter and Coating Analysis
  • Export and Documentation
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Ansys SPEOS

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
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Ansys VRXPERIENCE Light Simulation

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
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Ansys VRXPERIENCE Perceived Quality

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
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Ansys VRXPERIENCE HMI

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
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Ansys Optical Measurement Device

Ansys Optical Measurement Device solutions capture material properties so you can easily and virtually manage material samples, enabling multiple color and trim options, variations and associations. It all comes in real time

  • Scan Materials and Light Sources; Visualize Your Prototype Using Your Software
  • Capture the Real Appearance of High-End Materials in a Digital Environment
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