Close to home, Logan Airport, is doing something close to my heart by mimicking a control tower for training new controllers and workers.  In addition to what looks like 7+ rear projected monitors making up the video wall, the interactive simulation has voice recognition so spoken radio commands are translated to moving virtual airplanes for a native feel.

The system, designed by Adacel Systems Inc., will be deployed to 19 locations across North America as part of a $48 million dollar contract.  Logan will begin their instillation this fall.

I can see all the Microsoft Flight Simulator fans wanting a piece of this action, so I don’t know any other way to let  you down easier than saying it would probably cost you $2.5mil ($48mil / 19 locations) unless you do it yourself.

via. Boston.Com

I have been a fan of gaming cockpits almost as long as I have loved Multiple Monitors.  The VRX Mach4 is my idea of a well designed cockpit and best of all they are available for purchase right now.

Featuring 3x 1080p 37″ LCD’s and a 7″ rear view LCD you got all your blind spots covered. Right down to the “Virtual Wind System powered by 2 dual Honeywell fans”

Too bad you have to have one Xbox pet TV and very few games support it.

It consist of 55 (11×5) Dell 30 LCDs, powered by 15 Dell XPS 720 machines with 2.6 GHz Core 2 Quad, 4 GB RAM, and 2 Quadro FX 5600 video cards (each with 1.5 GB video ram). All running on Rocks Linux ( http://www.rocksclusters.org ). It’s a special distribution of Linux developed by the San Diego Supercomputing Center for cluster computing.

There are plans to extend the wall to 75 monitors.

This nice ghetto rig was brought to you by a laptop with S-Video out going to a portable DVD player, as well as a PDA with Innobec SideWindow.

Today’s Rig is brought to you from the guys at QJ.Net Gadget News Looks like thy have a friend who shares our passion of desktop real estate. Check out the 3rd photo for his Apple Cinema Displays that make up his desk.

We didn’t believe it at first. But when we got to his house, sure enough — twelve 30-inch Dell flat screen monitors are sitting in his office, and he’s grinning from ear to ear. Also among the pile of goodies are six NVidia GeForce 7900 GTX 512mb video cards, and three Turbo-Cool 1KW 1000-watt power supplies.

We commend you “Crazy John” you are one bad mother-Shut yo’ mouth!

This is the rig that really expanded my mind from “Dual-Monitor” to “Multi-Monitor” back before I even had my own first Dual-Monitor Rig. Steve Ferris, knowing no limits back in March of 2002 unveiled to the gaming community something that would never be forgotten. Using 9 PC’s running Windows 98SE, 13 Monitors, Flight Simulator 2002, and WidevieW Software he jump started the multiple monitor gaming fascination.

WidevieW 2.0 for is available with added support for MS Flight Simulator X in case you wish to up the ante. Just make sure you let me break the story.

I had to start”Rigs” off with a bang, so I bring you this mammoth:

The guys over at the elitetrader.com forums don’t F. around! This sexy 3×8 LCD setup appears to be running multiple instances of the same app, but each display is watching a unique stock. If you recognize this rig and have any more info, please post it in the comments. Click the pic for full size.