Custom Mini Truss for UQ Virtual Reality Room

We would like to highlight a customized truss structure built for RECOVER Injury Research Centre. This centre is a joint initiative of the Queensland Motor Accident Insurance Commission (MAIC) and The University of Queensland. The researches done here mainly focus on developing techniques to reduce disability for individuals who sustain a personal injury in a road traffic crash. They use Virtual Reality (VR) equipment as a stimulating technique.

The VR equipment include rigging cameras and speakers for the perfect VR experience. A strong and well-built truss structure is essential for installing these cameras and speakers.  A truss is an assembly of beams or other elements that creates a rigid structure. Phantos has designed an Eagle EGT100 series of 100×100 mini box truss structure. It comprises 20x2mm main pole with 10mm bracing. The truss structure has 8 uprights with cross beams on its top. This helps in hassle-free setting up of cameras and speakers.

The external dimensions of the truss structure are 4.0W*4.0D*2.5H. The supporting uprights have been placed alongside walls or at corners so that there is additional backing and support to the structure. Mini base plates have been used to place the uprights firmly. The UQ had requested for the pieces of the truss to be black powder-coated and accordingly all of the parts of the truss structure have been made so.

These mini trusses are ideal for small spaces such as studios, showrooms, lab rooms etc. Although they are small in size, the box trusses have a rated load of 250 kg at 4.0m span. This is sufficient for most applications in these small spaces.

PHANTOS is experienced and capable of supplying custom-sized structure using truss sections of a few different sizes to suit different applications. Please feel free to contact us if you have a requirement for a truss structure and we can design a truss most suited to your requirements.