New Vortex Sonar Sensor Simulation for
Subsea Operations Training

VxSonar Waterfall Display For projects ranging from the ocean surface to the ocean floor and everything in between, VxSonar provides developers with the ideal solution for deploying real-time sonar visual simulation for defence, security, commercial, and research purposes.

Since safe navigation and precise detection are crucial in all marine realms, VxSonar adds an important dimension to training projects that deploy mine detectors, submarines, search and rescue/recovery ships, subsea ROVs, and other vessels.

VxSonar PPI DisplayVxSonar’s physics-based realism – with accurate object detection, identification and detailed seabed scanning – ensures high-fidelity 3D sonar visual simulation that fast-tracks skills acquisition and improves outcomes for procedure training, operations rehearsal, and other purposes.

Keyano College meet industry demands with Immersive Technologies training simulators
4 March, 2010
Alberta, Canada

Komatsu 930E Haul Truck Conversion Kit® Canadian based education institute, Keyano College, has expanded the capacity of its mining operator training program with the acquisition of additional simulators from Immersive Technologies.

Responding to direct industry requests for additional mining graduates and the forecasted requirement for over 1,000 new equipment operators, Keyano College took the proactive step to significantly increase its capacity to deliver comprehensive and effective equipment training programs utilising the world's leading earthmoving training simulators.

Commissioned in February 2010, the college's latest simulator package includes five simulators, together with five modular 'Conversion Kits', simulating a range of Caterpillar and Komatsu haul truck models.

*ORLANDO, FLA. - 1 December, 2009* - Real DB Inc. wins the annual Presagis Award in category "Best 3D-Model" for their Shahab-3 project. The “Best 3D Model” award is given to the organization that has developed the best 3D model using Presagis Creator. The criteria of evaluation for this award includes an excellence in efficiency and appearance, as well as the realism of the models.

The goal of the Shahab-3 was to integrate in the same hierarchy all states, articulations, and missile stages that can be used with the Distributed Interactive Simulation Interoperability. Using Creator, the team at RealDB created and developed the Shahab-3 to provide efficiency, performance and high realism in multiple real-time simulation applications.

The Shahab-3 includes a wide range of texture patterns, including camo, desert, green, and winter. It also includes 4 LODs, as well as destroyed state, transport state, engagement state, degree of freedom, and missile stages with separated warhead. In addition, the Shahab-3 model is plug-and-play with DIS and with operating systems using the OpenFlight file format.

Cheers,

Stephan Cossette

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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

International Workshop on coupled display visual interfaces
(PPD10)
http://www.hitlab.utas.edu.au/wiki/PPD10

25 May 2010, Rome, Italy

held in Conjunction with
AVI 2010, the 10th International Working
Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces
http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~avi2010/

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Important dates:
Paper submission deadline: Mar 19, 2010
Notification of acceptance: Mar 30, 2010
Camera ready version: Apr 10, 2010
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Recent developments have seen the wide spread proliferation of both large
shared displays and small display technologies. In parallel we have seen
the emergence of new classes of device which support both touch or multi

3DTV-CON 2010
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4th 3DTV Conference
The True Vision
Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video

Website: www.3dtv-con.org
Dates: June 7-9, 2010
Location: Tampere, Finland
Venue: hotel Scandic Rosendahl

Capturing 3D scenery, processing the captured data for storage and
transmission, and displaying the result for creating 3D visual sensation are
the main functional components of a 3DTV system. The development of each of
them is a challenging task and their seamless integration is even more
challenging as the ultimate goal is to deliver full-scale, fascinating and
very realistic 3D TV service to the consumers.

3DTV-CON 2010 is the 4th in a series of successful conferences having the
objective to bring together researchers and developers from academia and
industry with diverse experience and activity in distinct, yet complementary,
areas to discuss the development of next generation 3DTV technologies,
applications and services.

IMPORTANT DATES:

(July 7~10, 2010 at GIST, Gwangju, South Korea)
http://www.isuvr.org

Emerging ubiquitous computing paradigm accelerates the convergence of
different technologies to enrich the quality of services and user
experience. Recently, there have been increasing demands of the end-users to
have more control in generating, sharing and consuming digital contents in
various forms of virtual and augmented reality. Thus, with this trend, it
would be timely to initiate a forum to discuss and share ideas on the
definition and the formation of an effective "Digital Ecosystem" which
facilitate natural user interaction and empower user participation.

The aim of this symposium is to facilitate intellectual exchange on
working-in-progress research activities with the world's most active
researchers invited to ISUVR 2010. This year, we are pleased to invite you
to participate in the 8th International Symposium on Ubiquitous Virtual
Reality (ISUVR 2010) with the theme "Toward Digital Ecosystem", held July
7-10, 2010 in Gwangju, South Korea. We invite original and innovative idea
papers on "Digital Ecosystems" in the areas of Web 2.0, social computing,

15th International Conference on 3D Web Technology
LA Convention Center Los Angeles, CA USA

Sponsored & Co-Located w/ ACM SIGGRAPH
In Cooperation with Web3D Consortium & EuroGraphics

* http://conferences.web3d.org/web3d2010/ *

Full & Short Paper submission deadline: April 25, 2010
Author Notification: June 1, 2010
Camera-ready due: June 14, 2010

Fifteenth in the series, the 2010 ACM International Web3D Conference will address a wide range of topics about 3D on the World Wide Web and on Multimedia Devices. Topics include: tools, object retrieval, rendering, modeling, distributed virtual environments, exposing large-scale databases, Web-wide human-computer interaction, and innovative applications. Of particular interest are issues regarding the interoperability, durability or delivery of 4D information assets.