First in the name of everyone at SimplySim, I’d like to wish you a happy new year. In 2011 we wish you success and happiness in your professional and personal life.
Today we introduce a new innovation of the SimplyCube: a Kinect controller. The SimplyCube enables you to rapidly and easily create your 3D application, and now you can add a Kinect controller. This new controller enables you to directly control your application with gestures.
The first two prototypes we’re showing in the video above represent only a first preview of the possibilities offered by this technology. From product presentation applications to motion capture, medical applications, education, simulations, or serious games… the possibilities of application are only limited by our imagination.
Stay tuned to our blog, twitter and YouTube channel to discover other innovations in 2011.
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Today we’re introducing something a bit different from what we usually see on this blog: a Windows Phone 7 3D application:
Microsoft France recently launched a challenge of Windows Phone 7 applications (the prize is an occasion to demo the application in front of Steve Ballmer and a few other high profile CEOs). As we thought that such a meeting could be interesting and as we had an idea of a potential application, we decided to give it a try. This was also a good occasion to see what was possible on this new platform.
Our “Interactive 3D assembly manual” is designed to replace furniture assembly instructions. 3D gives a real advantage in this kind of application as you can really see the instructions from the exact angle you need; and the fact that the application runs on a phone makes it very accessible. This is of course only a first prototype (which was developed in a few days), a more complete application would probably include the ability to directly download the 3D model from the internet by just scanning the barcode of the furniture you’ve just bought.
If you like this application and want to vote for it, the contest is on facebook (Please click the “like” button under the facebook video). As said before, this was only a first try, but we do believe in the potential of these new platforms (phones, tablets…), and eventually we plan to make SimplyCube applications compatible with them.
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Real-time 3D can be used in almost every industry and for a very large number of applications. If you’re familiar with this blog you’ve already seen examples of simulation and training applications. Another field that we think is very interesting and has a huge potential for growth is real-time 3D marketing. In today’s video, we introduce a simple 3D marketing application that we designed in only a few days using the SimplyCube.
As you can see in the video above most of the basic features of a 3D marketing application are available in this sample. The real-time 3D presentation enables the customer to get a better understanding of what the product looks like and how it behaves. The application also allows showing several configurations on the product (color / features) which can be more convenient to show through a 3D application than with a real product. If at first, this kind of application seems most interesting for products that are highly customizable and difficult to show (cars, boats, luxury products, large furniture, household electrical appliances…) it could be in fact adapted to any kind of product.
An interesting aspect of this application is that, thanks to the SimplyCube, it is easily customizable to any product with little to no programming needed. Once you have a 3D model of the product, you just have to import it in the toolbox to define the possibilities of interaction using the “SimplyPhysics” module, so the application is able to use it! What you may want to do is to design the graphic interface to present the product in the right color chart. As the application is based on Microsoft WPF this is easily done even for a non programmer using Expression Blend.
This is of course just a rapid case study on an application developed in only a few days, but it demonstrates interesting possibility in this field. A more advanced version of the application would probably include new ways of interaction: touch screen interface (ideal for presenting the product on a booth in a store), stereoscopic 3D vision (for a better grasp of the product), or for example a Wii-like based controller (a good way to present the application in front of an audience). The SimplyCube is designed to make all these possibilities available.
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SimplySim designs software tools to create 3D applications. As you might already have seen in our drone simulation, these tools permit to design 3D simulation applications, but there are several kinds of 3D applications that can be created with them. In today’s post, we have a quick look at different potential applications.
This interactive simulation environment can be used for any application from robotics simulations to serious games, or architectural design project.
Simulation
There are several ways to use 3D simulation in different fields: from the experimentation of new systems to the fields of education and training, or the study of human behaviors in realistic conditions. As explained before, the SimplyEngine has been specifically designed for real time 3D simulation, not only for UAVs but for any system.
When we talk about 3D software, video games are what come to most people’s mind (probably because video games are the first 3D applications that have reached our homes). However when we started doing 3D simulation, we felt that today the industry lacks a real 3D real time simulation engine, a software that is really designed for simulation, not for video games.
Video games
Speaking of video games, the needs of the two fields of simulation and video games can often be the same (and that led some game engine to be used in simulation projects). However the priorities are different and sometimes conflicting: simulation needs more realism, accuracy and easy interactions with other software. That doesn’t mean that you cannot use our simulation engine for video games (and given the quality of our 3D graphic real time rendering this would be understandable), just be warned that the software has been created for simulation and that the first upgrades will be for simulation.
Serious Games
During the last decade, both simulation and video game industries gave birth to “serious games”, which apply video game technology to serious purposes. The limit between serious games, simulations, and traditional video games can be hard to define. We like to see serious games as a simulation that includes some game mechanisms. In any case our product is particularly well suited to the creation of serious games thanks to its high realism and multiple possibilities in terms of interactions.
Virtual reality
Another domain related to those above is the field of virtual reality. 3D has been used in virtual reality for several years now. This is a domain where software and hardware interactions are numerous, and deserve to be simple. Our solution is based on service oriented architecture, and offers very easy ways to integrate any software or hardware with the 3D applications you create with it.
Architecture, 3D Marketing, and more
Of course our tools can also be used in other domains, such as architecture (where 3D has brought a lot in terms of efficiency and cost reduction) or marketing (where 3D offers a new media for brand and product advertising). People working in these domains, and other newcomers to the 3D technologies should particularly appreciate the easy to use and “keep it simple” approach we used when we designed our tools.
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