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7 August 2007

Events News

Dassault Systèmes to Showcase Cutting-Edge 3DVIA Interactive Technologies at SIGGRAPH 2007 Conference

Dassault Systèmes (DS) announced it will showcase new technologies and strategies that further position 3D as a universal language of product development at the SIGGRAPH 2007 computer graphics conference beginning today in San Diego.

Dassault Systèmes plans a variety of live demonstrations and presentations of its 3DVIA brand strategy, various 3D technologies and partnerships, including:

•  upgrades to the 3DVIA Virtools 3D Platform, enhancing the development of interactive real-time 3D applications

•  Virtools 4.1;

•  VR Library;

•  Wii and PSP solutions;

•  Virtools' next generation technologies;

•  SCP.Camera, a project powered by 3DVIA Virtools technology, also displayed at SIGGRAPH's Emerging Technologies exhibition.; and

•  "Mystery of Khufu Pyramid," an interactive 3D walk-through explaining a theory of how the pyramid was constructed, as seen in USA Today and Smithsonian;

•  presentations by 3DVIA partners REALVIZ and Allegorithmic;

•  sophisticated new 3D rendering capabilities in the industry-leading CATIA design/authoring software, including shader technology developed in conjunction with NVIDIA and mental images ;

"The innovations we will demonstrate at SIGGRAPH are part of our efforts to enhance our 3D simulation capabilities for designers, artists and engineers of all technical abilities, and to extend beyond the design process and into the consumer realm," said Lynne Wilson, CEO, 3DVIA, Dassault Systèmes. "Part of that strategy includes our 3DVIA Virtools entertainment solutions for game developers. This is an important technology leading segment for us and we are committed to its future. We believe that 3D visual and experiential technologies will play an increasingly important role for consumers in the future."

Dassault Systèmes recently launched both 3DVIA, its brand to enable online communities and individual users to create lifelike 3D objects, as well as 3dswym, a joint venture with Publicis Groupe that will offer a collaborative web-based platform allowing marketers to connect directly to consumers in order to co-create and adapt new consumer goods and new retail environments using advanced Web and 3D tools.

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