By Agnes
I’m sure you remember Michel Desjoyeaux project. We blogged about it previously. I thought you will be happy today to know that the virtual visit of the FONCIA 60ft monohull in real-time 3D has been adapted to the MACIF one.
François Gabart, Michel Desjoyeaux co-skipper during the last Barcelona World Race, decided with his sponsor MACIF to build exactly the same 60ft monohull. As Michel, François wanted to invite everyone on board and have them visit the interior of his boat.
Don’t wait! Run at the Salon Nautique in Paris, from December 3rd to December 11, and experience, at the MACIF stand (Hall 1 – Allée AB – Stand 71) an immersive and pedagogical visit of the MACIF 60ft monohull!
You will be able to “Fly” over the boat in a helicopter, sit down in the living area at the control screens, crawl through the sail locker and experience different weather conditions!
Try the storm mode and let me know how you feel about it!
Cheers,
Agnès
Published on December 6, 2011 | Tags: experiential 3D, Passion for Innovation, Sailing.
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By Michael
What is seducing a designer to use 100% digital equipment to documenting and developing ideas?
Capturing creativity is a sensual act with decisions taken within micro seconds. Nothing must disturb the magic moment when the ideas flow from brain to the documentation support. For centuries or even back to the stone age designers have relayed on a pencil and a box of color crayons to serve the purpose of documenting their design intent.
I recall the mid ‘90s when I visited at the Opel/GM development center in Rüsselsheim, Germany, for a business project. Open space offices were hung with impressive hand-made sketches and drawings of vehicles on transparent paper, thus manifesting the team’s creative outbursts.
Now a new generation of designers has been raised who are drawing directly on computer screens. And they seem to prefer this approach as their natural way to go about their job. In addition, with a digital input there are some advantages on the down-stream processes: the possibility of applying changes, the effectiveness of re-use and transfer to other media, as well as the ease of enriching content, such as varying colors, further detailing or adding background for presentations up until photo-realistic rendering.
At the Dassault Systèmes European Customer Conference which took place two weeks ago in Paris we were able to observe what seems to be a breakthrough in this path of development towards a comprehensive approach: Designers now can use CATIA with a pen and tablet device from WACOM to directly draw in 3D.
WACOM has been a partner in our Emerging Technologies Program since last year and has been working with the teams from CATIA and the Design Studio to develop this integrated solution.
With the availability of this functionality the door opens to a closed digital loop from documenting the first idea to developing a product design which is ready to be manufactured.
This sounds like science fiction to you? It still does it to me. But it’s nevertheless real. Have a look at the video:
Listen to the 3D drawing experience of Julien Fournier, who is using this technology to design Haute Couture:
Up to the creative people of the world to check this out.
Best,
Michael
Published on December 5, 2011 | Tags: 3D, CATIA, Design, Designer, drawing, ECF, Emerging Technology Program, Julien Fournier, sketching, WACOM.
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By VictorienDo you recall one of Saturday Night Fever’s best songs called “Stayin’ Alive” and performed by the Bee Gees?
Under most circumstances, you would not keep the beat of this song in your head, but heart specialists have come up with one good reason to remember it: It could save someone’s life. Turns out the hit is very close to 100 beats per minute, a perfect number to maintain the best rhythm for performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, when faced with a person suffering a cardiac arrest.
In order to learn the right reflexes and techniques, Dassault Systèmes and Ilumens have created the Staying Alive 3D Lifelike experience, available at www.stayingalive.fr/en. Playing the witness (in your office, the street or even during a soccer game), you have 4 minutes to react, call emergency services, perform CPR and use a defibrillator. Staying Alive 3D online experience was launched to support the World Heart Day organized by the World Health Organization
Children already spend a huge amount of time playing games and the trend is not expected to slow down anytime soon. Therefore, why not create a serious experience that still generates emotion, fun and entertainment, and use it to educate, train and inform the general public?
In fact, could games actually make us better? The gamification of extremely serious experiences can enhance the learning curve: learning by doing in a virtual environment involves the process by which game mechanics are added into work or social processes in order to drive user engagement and hook them into further participation.
While only 3% to 4% of people survive from cardiac arrest in France, they are 30% in Seattle, thanks to basic training taught at school and defibrillators being setup in public places, at work or simply in the street next to homes. Indeed, heart attacks mainly happen at home or in the office and in 80% of cases with no medical staff around, which means everyone (including children) need to be trained.
Then, will children teach Adults? With Staying Alive, they will play, save lives in 3D and hopefully, back from school, will teach parents to do the same. By training all of you, we can improve the surviving rate!
Cheers,
Fred Vacher @ fvr(at)3ds.com
Published on October 19, 2011 | Tags: 3DVIA, healthcare, Heart, online, serious game, serious gaming.
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