VIMtrek: Rendering Architects Speechless

The latest video games feature gorgeous graphics and blazing fast speeds but architectural design software is painfully slow to navigate and even slower to render. Why the difference – especially since architects and game designers both create virtual worlds?

VIMtrek is answering that question by bridging the gap between gaming software and architectural rendering programs. Using the backbone of cutting-edge game engine technology, the VIMtrek Producer application is able to rapidly convert Autodesk Revit® designs into immersive, beautifully rendered, and interactive environments, and then share these locally or over the Internet.

Say Good-bye to VIZERRA Client

Dear friends,

3D technology grows each day, and it's time for VIZERRA to use a new, more efficient engine. Our team will no longer provide technical support for VIZERRA Client.

A new format of 3D models will be available for viewing in the near future.
We apologize for any inconvenience!

VIZERRA Team

Oleg Maddox Joined the VIZERRA Team. Interview

Oleg Maddox, a well-known computer games' and innovative imaging technology developer, the head of the team that created the famous series of flight simulators IL-2 Sturmovik, heads the technical department of the 3DreamTeam company. We interviewed Oleg for our blog.

        Creative Director of Vizerra Alex Soloviev, CEO Arman Gukasyan and CTO Oleg Maddox

Please tell us a little about yourself. What projects did you work on before Vizerra?
Until 1991 I was developing in the defense industry. Then I left the institute and in late 1992 I created my own team. Over 40 large and small multimedia and gaming projects has been developed and implemented under my leadership. Almost all the projects were successful and some have become global hits. Of course, the most well-known to the mass audience was a series of flight simulators under the general title of IL-2 Sturmovik.

Hyper-Building Will Be the First Object in the Skolkovo Innovation Centre

Today the Russian Innovation Forum “Go Russia!” has seen the presentation of the Hypercube City Development Centre. This will be the first building in the Skolkovo Innovation Centre which will use all construction technologies and principles of Skolkovo urban policy.

Meet Vizerra Client 2.1

Time has passed very quickly since the previous release of the Vizerra Client application which took place on April 30, 2010. However, during this time our team did productive and hard work to present you a new version of the client application – Vizerra Client 2.1.

One of the most important changes is fixing of all bugs which our beta testers actively told us about for the last 2 months. “Flying” trees and possibilities to dive through the collisions in the parallel world like all other mystics are available no more.

Cosmogony of The Vizerra World

Vizerra world differs from the real world, and in some places one still can notice how it works. And by the way: how does it work?

What did the ancient people know about the world? That the world is probably flat and is located in the center of the universe. That the world does not collapse, as it is resting on the back of a huge animal, or rocking on the endless waters of the ocean. That the world has its Creator, and its existence makes superrational sense unfathomable for the mere mortals.

With the centuries going by, the world was growing, acquiring a spherical shape, and suddenly became just one of many worlds in the universe. But the Vizerra 3D world is still very young and therefore still resembles Earth in the way that people have seen it for many years before.

3DreamTeam at NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference

3DreamTeam Company took part in the annual NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference.

Look for 3D – we have a winner of the first stage!

September 9, 2010: Vizerra and NVIDIA have launched the Look for 3D competition going along with the beta test of Vizerra client application. September 27 the first stage of the competition was finished. The winner was Alexander Nikolaev from Saratov, Russia – he first sent us all the screenshots of the objects from the NVIDIA 3D Vision sets.

We have already sent him the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 video card. And here are the screenshots that have brought good luck to our winner:

Is There Anybody Home? - Struggle With Collisions

One of our beta testers was so eager to get inside one of the wooden buildings on Kizhi Island that he spent more than 1.5 minutes doing this. He tried to break through the collisions from all sides he could come or fly up, but he was not allowed in the house nevertheless. See that for yourselves!

We thank our beta testers and we’d like to remind that the bug contest is to be held until October 31! Each of you has a chance to win a subscription to Visual Studio Ultimate.

Bug Search - The Mystical Kizhi

As we said earlier, a beta tester who finds the most bugs by October 31, 2010 will be awarded a prize from Microsoft - the annual subscription to Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate. That’s why our users regularly send us not only the objects from the NVIDIA 3D Vision sets, but also screenshots of the bugs found in the 3D locations. Here are some of them: