Our friend Moulla is at it again! At LEWEB 2011 Moulla the Magician used a Microsoft Kinect with 3DVIA Studio to perform a unique set of “Augmented-Magic” tricks. Here is an extract of the combination of real time tracking and stage show magic.

This commercial was made for 3DVIA Dassault Systèmes.

3DVIA Studio for development:
http://goo.gl/vjZ16

Moulla Magic:
http://www.augmented-magic.com

The first 3D immersive experience on Facebook with 3DVIA!

Are you ready for the first total immersive experience on Facebook with 3DVIA technology? Take the plunge into a virtual medieval environment!
Immerse yourself in our 3D medieval environment and win one of two 21st-century iPad2® devices, just by answering a few questions!
Enjoy this 3DVIA Scenes experience with its intuitive and interactive interface. Compete with your friends and share your results!
Are you up to the challenge?

Using 3DVIA technology, Dassault Sytèmes (DS) and Parisian medical lab, iLumens, developed a first-of-its-kind virtual training for saving lives. “Staying Alive” is an interactive, online 3D application that teaches professionals and novices how to stop heart attacks in four minutes using manual and device-assisted techniques. Several of the devices featured in the app have been developed in partnership with DS, namely the Philips HeartStart (HS1) portable defibrillator.

Read more on 3DVIA.com

The term “3D Modeling” refers to two different things, depending on whether you are speaking to a Design Engineer (Mechanical Engineer, Product Designer), or a 3D Artist (3D Animator, Digital Content Creator, 3D Game designer). These two types of 3D Models saw little overlap 10 years ago, but today, engineering designs are often used in marketing materials, advertising, training, documentation and serious gaming. The problem is converting the engineering designs into a format that is useful for 3D Artists. This video illustrates the differences in 3D models for Engineers and Artists, and includes an explanation of how 3dvia hosting eliminates this issue issue with an automatic COLLADA (.dae) conversion so that engineering designs can be reused for sales, marketing, and training materials.

To get started with your 3DVIA hosting account, click here.

3DVIA is also running a promotion: anyone who signs up for a premium 3DVIA Hosting Account by September 15th, 2011 will have his/her online storage doubled for 12 months! Here are the details.

Shuji, from our Japan team, wanted to explain to us the sequence of events leading up to the hydrogen explosion at the Fukushima reactor. He found a 3D model of the reactor and loaded it into 3DVIA Composer. He then merged in some additional geometry (piping, rods, etc), and quickly built an animation detailing the various technical details that occurred after the catastrophic earthquake a few weeks ago.

Using 3D animations in this way — to educate and explain technical concepts — provides a simple and compelling way to quickly create and information. Thanks to Shuji for preparing this information in 3DVIA Composer, it is very interesting to understand the sequence of events describing this very unfortunate disaster.

Download the latest version of the 3DVIA Studio game engine for free (http://bit.ly/jaO3p4) to build realistic 3D worlds on the fly. Start by generating dynamic terrain with the new terrain editor. Drag and drop customizable skies, water systems and other environmental effects. Finish by populating your world with premium 3D stock content before publishing it online.

Download 3DVIA Studio for Free:
http://bit.ly/jaO3p4

This training application, built with 3DVIA Studio Pro, was created for a large energy client.  This video highlights the realistic rendering effects in 3DVIA Studio’s game engine technology, using CAD data originally created with CATIA

3DVIA Mobile for the iPhone, just got better, or LARGER.  As awesome as viewing any 3D model uploaded to 3dvia.com was on your iPhone was, it’s now much better.  The combination of 3dvia.com and the touch-screen technology for the iPad make it the easiest 3D model viewer…EVER!

Watch this short video to see the iPad app in Action:

What makes this app so compelling is that you can upload any CAD part, creative model, or quick 3D concept to 3dvia.com for free, then view the model in 3D on your iPad.  A great tool for showing off your work!

This is the Best CAD or 3D Model viewer for communicating in 3D!

For more details, go to the 3DVIA Mobile page here.

To download now from iTunes, click to go here.

Last week, 3DVIA announced that you can now create personalized Avatars on 3dvia.com, and use them in your 3DVIA Scenes.  See the announcement here.

We partnered with Evolver to bring our users this functionality, for FREE!

However, there has been one problem, we have created an AVATAR INVASION!  Traffic to 3DVIA Scenes has risen, and all sorts of mischief has been happening within your Scenes.  Everyone has been turning into Avatars, and we can’t stop it!!!

Seriously, the project has gone well, and 3DVIA, once again has offered our users new 3D functionality, for free.

So, login today, and start creating your Avatars.

Be sure to visitt the Dance Party Scene, which contains the dance floor used in the video.  The Dance floor functionality was created using 3DVIA Studio.

If you want to add the “I look better in 3D” shirt to your avatar, download the shirt here.