RTT just wrapped up RTT Excite 2011 in Munich, bringing over 700 of the biggest names in the visualization industry together for a huge event including lectures, examples, and hands on demonstrations.
This year’s RTT Excite once again formed a focal point for the 3D industry. The event featured a program rich in contrast and included many new innovations. Most notably, a world premiere of “RTT DeltaGen 4 TEAMCENTER,” a presentation of RTT DeltaGen version 10.0, live demos of cloud based visualization applications in cooperation with Fujitsu and gesture/look-controlled product configurators created a lot of buzz. More than 40 demo-stations were available to provide interaction with the solutions on display, and exclusive speakers with industrial and commercial backgrounds reported about their experiences and provided insight to future developments and projects.
Another big item was the “RTT FutureLab”, an area where universities and researchers could present the “3d visualization technologies of the future”.
RTT has announced the details of their upcoming annual conference and Emerging Technology Contest. If you think you have an idea of what the world might be like in 2020, consider pulling it together for a contest judged by NVidia’s own Jen-Hsun Huang and Tesla Motor’s Nancy Holman.
The RTT Emerging Technology Contest has been an integral part of the RTT University Program since 2005, and will focus on “Human Environments” by looking at the challenges relating to how we will interact with our environment and everyday consumer goods in the future. The RTT Funky Visualization Contest, in its second year, will test the creative imaginations of participants. Based on “Advanced Motion,” futuristic products and everyday items will be demonstrated in 2D or 3D visualizations.
Winners in the Emerging Tech contest will get a new NVidia Quadro 6000, while winners in the Funky Viz contest get an Intuos 4M Tablet PC from WACOM.
RTT has just announced a new version of their popular RTT DeltaGen product, version 9.6, that lets users create presentation quality photorealistic renderings with a minimum of fuss in their usual workflow. The big new feature in this version is their integrated real-time raytracing product they call ‘RealTrace’. It works in conjunction with RealScale to offer near-linear performance scaling.
The two render technologies Raytracing and Global Illumination give the user two options for calculating realistic virtual reality scenes. The CPU-based Raytracing depicts reflective and transparent materials with improved quality and at a higher speed. Thanks to Global Illumination, displays of light and shadow appear more natural and much more convincing. The different calculations for static and animated scenes take into account all types of light sources and, by adjusting for the harshness of shading, fill the environment with the greatest precision for the desired lighting atmosphere. The results are extremely realistic visualizations, which are required, for example, in the automotive industry for depicting headlight elements with precise refractions of light and reflections in the design stage.
RTT, creators of several custom visualization applications for a wide variety of customers, and Bunkspeed, creators of the GPU-accelerated Shot renderer, have joined together in a partnership. The two companies are an obvious match, as both use mental images iray in their products. Together, they aim to integrate Bunkspeed Shot and RTT DeltaGen into a seamless pipeline for modeling and rendering.
“Bunkspeed and RTT have each established unique positions within their market segments. While RTT addresses process-oriented 3D visualization solutions for larger corporations, Bunkspeed has established an excellent offering for quick visualization tools at an attractive price point,” said Ludwig A. Fuchs, co-founder and director of RTT. “From a strategic point of view, we see the collaboration with Bunkspeed as a great addition to our portfolio.”
At the 59th annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, Nissan was to unveil the 2011 Infiniti M concept. However, the car wasn’t ready? Rather than admit defeat or resort to renderings and “death by powerpoint”, instead they reached out to RTT and the Klip Collective to create a visually stunning presentation.
The result was a simple block of styrofoam presented on stage, cut out to the exact dimensions of the proposed car. Then, five synchronized projectors displayed the image of the car and the environment on it in a photorealistic way, to create the illusion of the car not only being on-stage, but arising from various environmental aspects and then driving.
See the video of the unveiling above, and read more in this press release.
RTT has just released new versions of their PictureBook 5.5 and PowerHouse1.5 software products that adds new features to improve collaboration in workflows. They retain all of the previous tools for working with your own files, but once you start sharing assets with others, you get a whole new level of functionality. They give you Smart Folders and Collections to make it easier to organize, but then add a whole layer of user access control:
User authorizations allow you to set who receives access and who is permitted to make changes to the files. For storing older file versions, RTT PictureBook 5.5 offers a new ZIP function that makes it easier to organize these assets, meaning files that are no longer needed will be compressed and stored together. This lets users organize their assets and access the latest, frequently needed files more quickly.
Of course, sharing these files is a breeze with the PowerHouse web-browser plugin that allows interactive viewing and manipulation of these models with nothing but a browser.
The RTT Excite conference, sponsored by Fujitsu, is only 10 days away in Munich. Over the last 10 years, the conference has gathered visualization experts around the world to discuss realtime 3d visualization and rendering, and this one is no exception.
We have now combined the success and experiences from the past few years into a new concept. With RTT Excite, we intend to blur the boundaries between presenters and visitors and provide you with an exciting venue to experience different worlds first hand.
A huge announcement from RTT today, as they state they will begin to integrate mental image’s iray and neuray, along with RealityServer, into their RTT PowerHouse and RTT DeltaGen products. Already in use by several high-end automotive and aerospace agencies, the inclusion of mental images technology should elevate their visuals to new levels of realism.
“The integration of iray into our products is a logical continuation of our strategy. mental images’s state-of-the-art approach and the alignment of iray with our strategic hardware and middleware platforms fit perfectly with our high quality and performance standards here at RTT,” says Ludwig A. Fuchs, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of RTT AG. “Whether our clients are designing the aerodynamic body of a high-end sports car or promoting a special-edition jogging shoe, they will have the benefit of better image quality and faster workflows. We look forward to harnessing the power of CUDA GPUs for highest-quality results that will be generated faster than ever before.”
No surprise he would mention CUDA, as mental images is owned by NVidia now. Read the full release after the break.
Students of graphic design and visualization may want to check out the new pair of contests from RTT and NVidia where universities, research teams, and students can submit work. The contest is focused on innovative technological processes and methods in real-time high-end visualization.
“These contests provide an ideal platform for new talent wanting to present their work and test their abilities in the market,” said RTT USA CEO Jeroen Snepvangers. “Through this competition, the next generation of 3D talent can meet and exchange ideas with ‘shining stars’ in the fields of 3D visualization and animation. RTT provides the tools with which new forms of communication can be developed, but the students add creativity and artistic performance to deliver outstanding visualizations.”
The two contests, the “Emerging Technology Conference” and the “Funky Visualization Contest”. You can get more info at the RTTOpen site.
RTT USA, Inc, a company specializing in software and services for product design and marketing, has just announced a new version of their software including a tool called “RTT Powerhouse”:
RTT PowerHouse is the first real time server that allows streaming, Web-based rendering of 3D visualization assets without requiring high-end hardware. Users with virtually no previous knowledge of 3D content creation can now create high-quality images, films and 3D visualizations for almost any application from any location via their Web browser. Design reviews in real time via the Internet, the rapid creation of advertising materials and the automated display of extensive media are now possible, even at remote locations.
They also have a new workflow tool in RTT DeltaGen 9.0:
Version 9.0 of RTT DeltaGen allows for the highest level of visual workflow ever. Using intelligent work concepts and leading-edge visualization technology, it replaces physical prototypes, facilitates quick and easy decision-making and offers cost savings potential throughout the entire product cycle. At the technological heart of RTT DeltaGen 9.0 is the new real time high dynamic range (HDR)-based rendering technology. Thanks to optimal control of lighting, shadows and colors, the software delivers consistent color reproduction and flawless contrast flow independent of the rendering method (ray tracing, global illumination or OpenGL).
RTT just wrapped up RTT Excite 2011 in Munich, bringing over 700 of the biggest names in the visualization industry together for a huge event including lectures, examples, and hands on demonstrations.
RTT has announced the details of their upcoming annual conference and Emerging Technology Contest. If you think you have an idea of what the world might be like in 2020, consider pulling it together for a contest judged by NVidia’s own Jen-Hsun Huang and Tesla Motor’s Nancy Holman.
RTT has just announced a new version of their popular RTT DeltaGen product, version 9.6, that lets users create presentation quality photorealistic renderings with a minimum of fuss in their usual workflow. The big new feature in this version is their integrated real-time raytracing product they call ‘RealTrace’. It works in conjunction with RealScale to offer near-linear performance scaling.
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Bunkspeed and RTT have each established unique positions within their market segments. While RTT addresses process-oriented 3D visualization solutions for larger corporations, Bunkspeed has established an excellent offering for quick visualization tools at an attractive price point,” said Ludwig A. Fuchs, co-founder and director of RTT. “From a strategic point of view, we see the collaboration with Bunkspeed as a great addition to our portfolio.”
The RTT Excite conference, sponsored by Fujitsu, is only 10 days away in Munich. Over the last 10 years, the conference has gathered visualization experts around the world to discuss realtime 3d visualization and rendering, and this one is no exception.
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Students of graphic design and visualization may want to check out the new pair of contests from RTT and NVidia where universities, research teams, and students can submit work. The contest is focused on innovative technological processes and methods in real-time high-end visualization.
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