A new Offshore Simulator Center (OSC) is being finalized  in Aalesund, Norway to provide advanced training in offshore ship operations. The new facilities are located in a 'Norwegian Competence Center building' next to the Aalesund University College. The building contains several futuristic constructions, such as a 13.5m diameter aluminium dome for the offshore operations simulators, and two 4m diameter spherical domes for crane simulation. Read More

SAP has started marketing a visual enterprise platform which incorporates real-time 3D visualization as part of a data management solutions. That’s just one example.  Increasingly Big Data is being teamed with Big Computing (the product of Moore’s Law applied over several decades) to create new tools and products that enable complex visual interactions for exploring data sets for use in business, science, and research. Read More

The company shares in a statment that the revamped 3D home theatre range offers consumers an ideal choice whatever their needs or budgets may be. The Epson EH-TW6100 and EH-TW8100 replace the older Epson EH-TW6000 and EH-TW8000 respectively. Both are full HD 1080P capable and feature Epson's unique 480 hertz frame refresh rate that is twice as fast other 3D projectors; it helps minimise the “blackout time” between 3D images. Read More

Neuron, the European Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle demonstrator, has completed its first flight in French Istres achieving a major milestone in the Neuron programme, where defence and security company Saab has played a critical role in the design, development and production. Now more flight testing will follow. The Neuron is expected to fly in Sweden in 2014. Read More

The study is the largest 3D seismic study in the Black Sea and covers approximately 6,000 square kilometers in the deep-water area of the Neptun block in the Romanian sector of the Black Sea, OMV Petrom, the operator of the seismic program, said. -ExxonMobil and OMV Petrom will use data collected from this seismic program and an earlier seismic program in 2009 and 2010 to further assess the commercial and technical feasibility of the Domino gas discovery announced earlier this year. Read More

They will be taken through the entire process of photo-realistic 3D visualization, from preparing the CAD data through to creating CGI content for print brochures, animations and online product configurators. In this trainee program, RTT is putting particular emphasis on a several month placement in one of the company's international offices. Read More

Intermap announced that the Company was awarded a US $2.3 million 3D Business Intelligence (3DBI) solutions contract. This contract is the initial phase of a program where Intermap will design, build and deliver 3DBI solutions for an Asia based client. The solution will enable a national spatial information database designed to be delivered via the cloud or on an appliance in the client's data center.

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Edge Resources Inc. announces that it has completed shooting and processing a 3D seismic program in Primate, Saskatchewan one month ahead of schedule.  The Company’s initial analysis of the seismic, which incorporated the recently discovered oil pool in what the Company calls Asset East, is that two additional new oil pools and several potential drilling locations have been identified. Resulting from the discovery well drilled in Asset East earlier this year, the Company shot and evaluated 9.6 square kilometers (3.6 square miles) of 3D seismic (see announcement October 17, 2012), with the expectation of characterizing the newly discovered oil pool and identifying up to six additional potential drilling locations.  Read More

Dassault Systèmes announced that Visteon Corporation is applying the 3DEXPERIENCE platform’s 3DSwYm social application on the cloud to its recently unveiled e-Bee vehicle concept. The use of 3DSwYm’s social, cloud-based community environment helped Visteon quickly develop innovative new concepts for this demonstration vehicle in its product areas of climate, interior and electronics. Visteon achieved efficiency gains in the development process, while reducing early prototype costs. Visteon also applied the 3DSwYm application to co-create with strategic customers and key supplier/partners on the e-Bee project. Read More

TeraRecon announced today that more than 9,000 iNtuition licenses have been deployed globally. “TeraRecon has enjoyed dramatic growth in the number of iNtuition licenses deployed with the recent introduction of iNtuition CLOUD, to complement the iNtuition UNLIMITED licenses that are deployed in imaging facilities around the world” said Robert Taylor, Ph.D, TeraRecon President & CEO.

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Hexagon AB, leading global provider of design, measurement and visualisation solutions, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the business of GTA Geoinformatik GmbH, a pioneer in georeferenced virtual 3D city models and highly efficient building reconstructions. Founded in 1995, GTA Geoinformatik is the developer of tridicon®software, which enables the automatic generation of high-quality, coloured 3D point clouds. The company also specialises in uniting point cloud data with aerial images including oblique and LiDAR images to create intelligent, navigable 3D city models, or smart cities.

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 Vidyo, Inc., the first company to deliver personal telepresence, today announced that it has been admitted as a licensor in MPEG LA’s H.264 patent pool. Being included in the portfolio of essential patents underscores the leadership position Vidyo has taken in the effort to standardize scalable video coding in both the existing H.264 SVC codec and the emerging HEVC (H.265) codec. Since its launch in 2008, Vidyo has consistently led the industry shift to SVC in video communications, and is today delivering the “gold standard” for interoperability among SVC implementations. Read More

Maya Gold & Silver Inc. is pleased to publish a 3D model of its Zgounder Silver Deposit. Maya realizes its usefulness for presentation and communication, especially for investor relations. Maya Gold & Silver Inc. is a Canadian listed mining corporation focused on the exploration and development of gold and silver deposits in Morocco. The Corporation's shares trade on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol "MYA". Read More

Looking to buy or sell quality 3D models? A new Toronto start-up hopes you'll come to them. RenderLife Inc. is looking to increase competition with a new approach to the stock 3D model marketplace, improving access for the studios, agencies, game studios and media that use 3D models and creating opportunities for the artists that create them. Read More