We are very proud to announce that VirtualGeo 3 has been selected to be the 3D browser of the next generation French GeoPortail, which will comply with the INSPIRE directive. This project will be carried out by a consortium of companies including Diginext and led by Atos Wordline with the ambition to release the new GeoPortail V3 mid-2012. Géoportail is the geographic portal of the French government whose aim is to publicise georeferenced data about the whole French territory. This service, developed by two public agencies (the IGN and the BRGM), was officially inaugurated on June 23, 2006. With millions of connections, this massively successful service originated for two main purposes:
- to comply with the INSPIRE (Infrastructure for spatial information in Europe) European directive and ADELE French program aiming at the development of on-line administrative information
- to provide a national alternative to other online projects such as Google Maps and Google Earth
About IGN
The Institut Géographique National is the French national provider of reference geographic information, heir to the French Armed Forces Geographic Department (Service Géographique des Armées – SGA) founded in 1887. Its role is to describe, from a geometric and physical perspective, the surface and land use of the national territory, to make all appropriate representations thereof and to distribute this information. Initially a map designer, today, IGN produces increasingly exhaustive digital databases, that can be used for many applications. It thereby contributes to development planning, sustainable development and environmental protection, national defence, civil security and risk prevention, as well as to the promotion and standardisation of national and international applications of geographic information.
27 June - 1 July 2011, Edinburgh
VirtualGeo team will welcome you at the INSPIRE conference from June 27 to July 1 2011 in Edinburgh. VirtualGeo will be presented during poster sessions (through the V-City project) and demonstrated in the exhibit area.
INSPIRE is setting up the framework for a spatial data infrastructure for the purposes of European Community environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment.
More information on the conference is available on the INSPIRE website.
1-3 February 2011, Monaco
How users can interact with VirtualGeo throug a multitouch stereoscopic table has been presented at the Imagina conference on DIGINEXT booth. As usual, our booth welcomed a large number of visitors including a team of Euronews who interviewed our team. The footage has been broadcasted during Euronews journal.
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We are very happy to announce that GeoConcept, the leading European Geographic Information system editor, has selected VirtualGeo3 as the rendering engine at the heart of its future flagship product GeoConcept 7.
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25-29 July 2010, Los Angeles
We are pleased to announce that the technological breakthroughts proposed in VirtualGeo 3 beta will be presented at the SIGGRAPH 2010 conference by our partner Immersion.
The VirtualGeo 3 viewer will be demonstrated on a multiuser, multitouch, stereoscopic table at the Emergining Technologies sessions. This demonstration merges massive and high resolution 3D urban environment rendering with 3D display techniques such as viewpoint tracking and stereoscopic rendering. While efficient hardware systems and software algorithms have been well-identified for each technology, combining them raises totally new issues. For instance, each stereo viewing angle is unique, stereo rendering is usually single-viewpoint only, and the focal plane and stereo parameters must be precisely controlled to avoid collision between fingers and virtual objects. In 3D Multitouch's application to city planning, two users share interactions in the 3D city, but each has a unique view of the content, just like they would on a real mockup. Additionally, the system controls stereo parallax by detecting the users' hands and fingers, which allows the most immersive negative parallax when no arm occludes the content. The system switches to positive parallax when users are closer. This unique two-user, stereoscopic multitouch system focuses on the issues and constraints that will most certainly motivate such research work in the future. The goal of the demonstration is to let attendees experience the system and the new problems it introduces, and discuss its preliminary solutions.
The VitualGeo 3 technology will also be presented at the Touchy-Feely talk, Thursday, 29 July | 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | Theater 411, Session Chair: Dylan Moore, Apple Computer, Inc.