Dassault Systemes : Dassault Systemes Announces 3D For All Solutions New Release with Life Platform and Experience Players; Virtools4 and New 3D Office and 3D XE Players Democratize 3D Experience
June 27, 2006 at 10:31 am IST
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Dassault Systemes (DS) (Nasdaq:DASTY) (Paris:DSY), a
world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions,
today announced the new release of 3D For All solutions, with the
Virtools4 flagship product and 3D Office and 3D XE players. Since the
acquisition of Virtools last year, DS has executed and expanded its 3D
For All strategy and approach to bring life to 3D, delivering a unique
platform, technologies and applications to truly share 3D Experiences
everywhere.
"This new release demonstrates Dassault Systemes' ambition to
democratize 3D," explains Dominique Florack, Executive Vice-President,
Strategy, R&D, Dassault Systemes. "The new Life Platform brings to the
market a unique solution to pervasively deploy 3D Experiences on
personal computers, game consoles, intranets and the web, and shows
our commitment to bringing the power of 3D to all communities"
This new 3D For All release, allowing users to imagine, share and
experience highly interactive 3D content, provides major new
enhancements and capabilities, including:
Product-Context-Scenario (PCS) Paradigm: this new paradigm
represents a highly intuitive means of capturing the 3D Experience and
easily mapping product behaviour, as well as the experience of
contextual environment scenarios. With PCS, the Virtools4 Life
platform allows for the creation of virtual experiences such as
driving, shopping, usage, maintenance, and marketing. Starting with
this release, Virtools4 endorses the PCS paradigm.
Corporate Intranet Solutions: Created for deployment on corporate
intranets, two new products, 3D XE Player and 3D Office Player have
been introduced. Based on the PCS paradigm, they bring the power of
experiencing products and situations in context to both 3D specialists
and non-3D specialists, thereby providing any players involved in
enterprises' innovation processes with a common language to share 3D
experiences, giving them a unique means to fully comprehend a product
in the most intuitive way possible.
3D Experience Environment Pervasiveness: the Life platform extends
the variety of target environments for deploying 3D Experiences and
now supports Microsoft(R) Windows(R) and Apple(R) MacOS(R) computers,
Microsoft xBox(R) and Sony PSP(R) game consoles, intranets with 3D
Office and 3D XE players, internet with 3D Life Player, as well as
immersive environments. This scope underlines the diversity of
possible deployments and provides various communities with a powerful
solution to create and experience life content. In addition, important
enhancements in the Virtools4 platform have been delivered for
professional rendering. These now include new support of CgFX shaders
for OpenGL 2.0, in addition to HLSL shader support for DirectX, which
was already available in the last version.
The 3D For All Life platform and the new 3D Office & 3D XE players
will be presented at the annual CAA V5 DEVCON Conference today and
tomorrow in Paris, where customers, partners and communities will have
the opportunity to network and learn the latest information on the CAA
V5 development platform for PLM solutions as well as 3D For All
solutions. Complete information on registering to attend DEVCON 2006
and a full program of events can be found at www.3ds.com/devcon
Dassault Systèmes SE is the world leader in developing and marketing product life cycle management software. Net sales break down by family of products and services as follows:
- software (90.1%): product process optimization software and 3D design software for the following markets: general mechanical, automotive, aeronautics, consumer goods, electricity, and electronics, and factory design and naval construction. In addition, the group offers update and technical support services;
- services (9.9%): technological consulting and training services.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: France (15.1%), Germany (4.3%), Europe (10%), the United States (51.7%), Americas (0.9%), Japan (6.6%) and Asia (11.4%).
Dassault Systemes : Dassault Systemes Announces 3D For All Solutions New Release with Life Platform and Experience Players; Virtools4 and New 3D Office and 3D XE Players Democratize 3D Experience