Profiles of Current and Recent Members
Bitmanagement
Bitmanagement offers interactive and realtime 3D software, its documentation and support/development. The multimedia–software for 2D/3D, audio and video performs the visualization in your software- and/or hardware related concept or product, based on ISO-Standards VRML, X3D, MPEG-4 and Collada.
Computer Graphics Saarland University
The Computer Graphics Lab at Saarland University, founded by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Slusallek focuses in the area of parallel and distributed processing of visual information. The two main research highlights of the Computer Graphics Lab are Ray-tracing and multimedia. The goal is to add industrial-strength, high-quality, interactive 3D graphics as a built-in, native data type like text, images, and streaming video for the Web using X3D.
EDF
EDF Group is one of the leading European energy players with Europe’s largest electricity generation assets. With our large experience of the energy markets, we can tailor our activities to local conditions and develop our expertise worldwide with our subsidiaries and equity interests around the world.
Fraunhofer
The Image Processing (IP) Research Department contributes in the fields of : - Efficient signal processing and compression methods - Adaptation of coding schemes to transmission protocols and methods - Implementation of hardware and software components - Development of interactive services and applications based front edge technologies - Integration of real and virtual worlds for immersive multimedia applications.
MBARI
The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) is a world center for advanced research and education in ocean science and technology, through the development of better instruments, systems, and methods for scientific research in the deep waters of the ocean. MBARI emphasizes the peer relationship between engineers and scientists as a basic principle of its operation. All of the activities of MBARI must be characterized by excellence, innovation, and vision.
NASA Ames
NASA Ames plays a critical role in virtually all NASA missions in support of America’s space and aeronautics programs. Ames Research Center (Silicon Valley) enables exploration through selected development, innovative technologies, and interdisciplinary scientific discovery.
Naval Postgraduate School
Provides relevant and unique advanced education and research programs in order to increase the combat effectiveness of U.S. and Allied armed forces and enhance the security of the United States.
Octaga
Octaga offers users a full range of 3D viewing products, plug-in modules to 3D Studio Max, server and developer tools.
Oxalya
Oxalya Group is a European company based in Luxembourg, with several offices across Europe.
Since 2003, their team brings High Performance Computing (HPC) technologies to the market. Its high investment in software technologies for scientific computing and numerical simulation distinguishes Oxalya as one of the fastest growing company on the market.
Oxalya contributes to several major collaborative R&D technology programs in Europe, bringing simplicity and industrialization process to a deeply innovative market, in order to give researchers and research-engineers an opportunity to focus on their core job.
Since January 1st 2008, Oxalya has been split into three independent divisions: the The Oxalya Infrastructure Division, the Oxalya Software Division and the HPC On Demand Division. This new organization is an answer to the strong growth of the company, and will help the company to meet the growing needs of its customers.
Planet 9 Studios
Planet 9 is building the next generation of data and software to bring 3D city interfaces to applications and believe that 3D city interfaces will enrich a wide range of consumer and business applications.
SenseGraphics
provides a high performance application development platform which enables integration of haptics and 3D stereo visualization into multimodal software applications. Our development platform consists of two main components, hardware and software solutions, offering the complete set of technologies needed to initiate 3D or haptics application development.
Virginia Tech
Founded in 1872 as a land-grant college named Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, Virginia Tech is now a comprehensive, innovative research university with the largest number of degree offerings in Virginia. VT’s Advanced Research Computing (ARC) is an interdisciplinary environment dedicated to advancing capabilities and insight in computational science and engineering using supercomputing and visual analysis tools. Access to data is paramount for an effective coupling of centralized resources and distributed researchers; therefore the group is focusing on the development of software infrastructures that support a variety of domains and use-cases including web service tools for data translation, manipulation, and visualization. In addition, ARC provides educational and support services to drive access to and adoption of cutting-edge integrated information spaces.
