Visioglobe will present its technology during the Nvidia Emerging Company Summit September 30 – October 2, 2009 (PR)
Visioglobe is an editor whose ambition is to revolutionize 3D visualization in the world biggest cities using real photographic data and real-time information. Visioglobe greatest challenge is to bring the best ideas to life and contribute to the constant evolution of the 3D real world in order to provide to final users with what is best in terms of navigation experience and interactive 3D environments.
Following an incubation path in partnership with the INRIA laboratory (National Institute of Computing and Automatic Control Engineering) and twice winner of the National competition of French R&D, Visioglobe was created at the end of 2007 by Philippe Poutignat (ENSTA Engineer, 16 years in Thales training), and Eric Bernard (EM Lyon MBA, 12 years in IT, Oracle, Fi-System, SQLI)
The company finished its first fund raising in September 2009, in order to increase its R&D and Sales team. The R&D team has been enhanced by a strong group of international engineers, with background from MIT, New Zealand engineering school and leading French engineering schools. This first fund raising will accelerate the international development of the company, in Europe, in the US, and in Asia. A second fund raising is already planed for the Q1/2011 in order to sustain and “comfort” its international presence.
The Visioglobe Technology is a first life experience, which enhances the real world experience by providing the world in 3D on embedded devices (such as those using the Tegra) with high detailed buildings and landmarks. The world is enhanced with real time information of the surrounding environment, for example to find friends, events, restaurants, and other useful places of interest.
Visioglobe software:
* Uses the best of NVidia Tegra capacity;
* Makes full use of open GLES 2.0 shaders for fantastic effects like wind and water;
* Has high frame rate for a pleasant experience;
* Drives a full 360°free navigation experience with hundreds of thousands of buildings on-board for full non-connected experience;
* Supports large terrain models even with mountains roads;
* Dynamically refreshes points of interests and social networking content.
Visioglobe is addressing the market in B to B, and the software is actually in the end process of development with many major clients in the Web, Automotive and Mobile phone areas.
A first beta version of the web application has been launched during the summer 2009 with the French leading web navigation company Mappy, http://paris3d.mappy.com/install.php
An end-user application is already planned on the iPhone for the end of 2009. A first beta of the application will be presented during the Embedded Technology Event in Tokyo 18-20 November 2009.
Following the last Mobile World Congress in February 2009, Visioglobe is now part of several eco-systems in the data environment (Navteq, Tele Atlas, Spot Image, Digital Globe, Intermap) and hardware manufacturer companies like Nvidia.
Visioglobe will showcase a high-performance innovative application.
«It is a 3D environment that goes further than all performances that we currently know, thanks to interactive navigation around buildings in real 3D” Eric Bernard (CEO of Visioglobe) states. “The use of the device on mobile phones opens the possibility for a second virtual revolution and insures a follow-up of mobility in order to always find new things but mostly to find your way through the city”.
This sounds interesting.
Visioglobe will be presenting at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC), next week – September 30 through October 2, 2009. This editor expects to represent AlienBabelTech there also and will try to get more details for you as well as anything else that you would like us to cover at NVIDIA’s GTC. What interests you?
Mark Poppin
ABT Senior Editor
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