BUSINESS LETTER
News and Information from the 3D Business World - June 2010

Dear reader,

we like to inform you - as our customer or potential customer, user, developer or web agency - about the variety of applications which can be realized with our 3D viewer technology "BS Contact" and our related "Authoring Tools".

We send our business letter quarterly. In case you do not want to receive any longer the business letter, please take a look at the notice at the end. Thank you.

I hope this letter will provide lots of inspiration for you and many valuable information you can use.

Yours
Peter Schickel
CEO, Bitmanagement Software GmbH


Technical News

BS Contact supports 64 Bit Systems

Having more memory capacity available for creating larger scenes BS Contact supports under Firefox and Internet Explorer 64 Bit Systems. It is mainly used by developers in the games industry particularly for interactive applications in the Internet.

www.bitmanagement.com/en/download

Cross-Browser installation with JavaScript

Easy installation for Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Google Chrome and Opera. In order to install BS Contact as easy as possible across Internet browsers, Bitmanagement provides now a cross browser JavaScript to check the installed version of BS Contact. This script gives third party developers the possibility to check the installed version of the BS Contact 3D and provide the download at their website.

www.bitmanagement.com/en/press/cross-browser-installation

New script sharing in BS Contact saves memory

Memory allocation is drastically reduced. The prototype declaration is an important means to express recurring program parts in the VRML/X3D language. Programmers are using it to lay out general features in a library that can be re-used in various projects with small variations in the parameters again.

www.bitmanagement.com/en/press/script-sharing

New Geometry Instancing Node in BS Contact

Using Bitmanagement's new geometry instancing node multiple copies of the same object are rendered in one pass. This technique is mainly used for objects such as trees, grass, or buildings that contain recurrent geometries of interest. In spite of the large number of additions of objects, the performance of the scene is not affected significantly as the hardware acceleration of current graphic cards in DirectX is exploited.

www.bitmanagement.com/en/press/geometry-instancing

Additional CAD related functionalities like Orthogonal View or Line Picking

BS Contact supports now the orthogonal projection and users may select polygons per click with the line picking function.

Mac-version - first customer project with BS Contact on Mac accepted

With our French partner Idees3Com the first project called La Poste could be implemented using BS Contact on Mac for interactive visualization.

Native porting of the renderer to mobiles

Bitmanagmeent is working on a native port to a variety of mobile phones and netbook-class devices. First to be supported will be the IPhone and Android.

www.bitmanagement.com/en/company/research-development

Customer Case Stories

Leehl Game released today – with BS Contact as 3D Game Engine.

With "Leelh" (www.leelh.com), an apocalyptic game developed by 3D Duo (www.3dduo.fr), the renderer "BS Contact" is used in a growing area of online interactive and multiuser games. As a client-side game engine, the rendering is performed on the client machine (the end-users computer). In the beta testing phase during the last weeks more than 10000 players have been connected with BS Contact. Today is the official release of the game.

www.leelh.com

Stand-alone AR software for 3D professionals

Unifeye Design 2.0 is the completely revised stand-alone software for individual augmented reality presentations and live-marketing applications with only a few mouse clicks. Just import your 3D content and configure your scenario logics - it`s that easy!

www.bitmanagement.com/en/products/thirdparty/augmentedreality

Mewes & Partner

Mewes & Partner, Henningsdorf, Germany, a machinery CAD data based solution provider offers a platform (WinMOD) for virtual commissioning of factories, for planning, training, service and education in the automation engineering area of "Digital Factory". As a software partner Bitmanagement has contributed its 3D viewer technology (BS Contact) which is implemented in all three real time simulation systems from Mewes & Partner. The 3D Software meets all requirements such as interactivity, highest rendering quality and the ability to run on every established standard PC and Laptop.

www.mewes-partner.de/www/deu/index.html

www.virtual-reality-magazin.de/blaetterkataloge/2010-01/flash.html#/12/

Special Offer

Graphic Card bundle with BS Contact 3D viewer

ATI FireGL V7700 + BS Contact Viewer for 299€ net.
This offer is valid until August 31, 2010.

If you are interested in the offer above, please send us an e-mail to: info@bitmanagement.de

www.bitmanagement.com/files/documents/bundle_v7700.en.pdf

Fairs

Augmented Reality Fair - June 3-5, 2010 in Santa Clara, Silicon Valley

At the Augmented Reality Fair, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Bitmanagement has presented a new application of its customer metaio, Munich, Germany, a pioneer in the area of augmented reality (AR) technology at the Web3D booth. metaio which has an own both at the fair will demonstrate UNIFEYE, a new design tool. It enables a user to create his or her own augmented reality application easily. Bitmanagement is the 3D software partner of Metaio.

www.metaio.com/products/design

Siggraph 2010 - July 25-29, 2010 at the Los Angeles Convention Center

Meet Bitmanagement at Siggraph 2010 in Los Angeles at the Web3D Consortium Booth 1024 and check out the tech talk on July 28, 2010.

www.siggraph.org/s2010/

at the Los Angeles Convention Center

Meet Bitmanagement at the Web3D Symposium in Los Angeles and check out the scientific presentations and panel discussions.

conferences.web3d.org/web3d2010/

R&D Projects Bitmanagement is participating

FINE and InterAR

Regarding its founded R&D activities Bitmanagement is currently working on the European financed project "Fine - Free-viewpoint Immersive Networked Experience" and on the German BMWI funded project "Inter AR - Augmented Reality online on mobile devices". FINE started in April 1th, 2010 InterAR December 1st, 2009.

www.bitmanagement.com/en/company/research-development

Job Vacancies

Searching Software development engineers, student trainees and interns

Bitmanagement Software GmbH has job offerings for software development engineers (computer scientist graduate, computer visualization) for cross platform development, with good skills in:

  • C++,C, Objective C
  • OpenGL, DirectX
  • Expert knowledge in real time rendering and affinity to Web3D graphics
  • Good spoken and written English to be prepared for working in international teams and on international projects
We are also offering in 2010 vacancies for student trainees and internships with good skills in programming (in particular C++) as well as with additional knowledge of 3D graphics to deal with compact working packages realized either at our Berg location near Munich or at your home office.

Please contact us for more information and send your profile and field of interest to info@bitmanagement.com



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