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.

14-18 June 2010, Paris

The VirtualGeo 3 beta release has been demonstrated on DIGINEXT's booth to enthusiastic visitors during the Eurosatory 2010 exhibition.

From June 14th to 18th 2010, Eurosatory not only confirmed but also built on its role as the world-leading land, airland and homeland defence exhibition. It was attended by 1,330 exhibitors from 52 countries and drew 52,414 visitors from 131 different countries.

The latest VirtualGeo's innovations in the field of massive geographic, cartographic and archictural 3D reconstruction, storage and interactive visualisation have also been presented on the 16th of June, by Dr Eric Bouvier from Diginext, during the "Simulation and operations in urbain terrain" conference.

The brand new VirtualGeo 2.4 is available. Please contact your reseller for more information. This version includes numerous new features such as:

• The support of marine environments,
• The animation of mobiles according to the terrain or the waves,
• More realistic atmospheric effects,
• Accelerated intervisibility processing,
• Many additional import formats such as OpenFlight,
• ...

10 Februrary 2010, Toulouse

DIGINEXT has presented the V-City project in the "Geographic web portals" seminar organised by the French Space Agency and the CCT Technical Competence Centers. The V-City project was officially announced before the Google Earth presentation of E. Parsons, Google Geospatial Technologist.

The objective of this event was to overview the latest achievements and perspectives of the 3D Geographic information field of applications. Some Geographic web portals have been presented, and also some nice Open Source applications.