Forterra Systems Named Winner of "Innovation in Virtual Worlds for
Enterprise" Award
Industry Experts Cite Innovative Collaboration & Learning Features
SAN MATEO, Calif. (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) September 11, 2008 --
Forterra Systems, the market and technology leader in enterprise virtual
worlds, announced today that it was awarded the prestigious Innovation
in Virtual Worlds for Enterprises award at the Virtual World Expo held
September 3rd and 4th in
Los Angeles. These awards recognize the significant achievements in
innovation to companies in five categories: Consumer, Enterprise, Youth,
Pioneer, and Overall Innovation.
A panel of leading authorities judged all the industry vendors for their
contribution to bringing the most impactful features into their virtual
world platform over the last year for enterprise usage. The panel of top
analysts and media included Steve Prentice, VP Research and Fellow,
Gartner Group; Erica Driver, Co-Founder and Principal, ThinkBalm;
Christian Renaud, CEO, Technology Intelligence Group; Joey Seiller,
Editor, Virtual Worlds News; Robert Bloomfield, Founder and Host,
Metanomics; and Nic Mitham, Managing Director, K Zero. Erica Driver of
ThinkBalm announced the award indicating "Forterra is a small company
doing big things in the Immersive Internet platforms market. Forterra
was selected for its leadership releasing advanced collaboration and
learning features into its OLIVE platform over the last year, providing
value to enterprises." Details and photos of the award ceremony can be
viewed at http://www.forterrainc.com/awards.
“Every Forterra employee, customer, and
partner is extremely proud of the recognition we have achieved through
winning this award,” said Dave Rolston, CEO of
Forterra Systems. “We’re
gratified that our hard work to identify and address how our OLIVE
virtual world platform can transform enterprise business processes has
resonated so positively with leading industry experts.”
The key capabilities Forterra has released or will release in Q4, 2008
include:
-
Displaying on 3D screens and viewing by all participants streaming
video (Windows Media Player® based),
Microsoft PowerPoint files, collaborative whiteboards, and any
software application running on a Windows desktop.
-
Integration and display of either industry standard learning-based
Shareable Content Objects (SCOs) or web-based content displayed
through a browser in one of three modes within an OLIVE 3D scene.
-
Development of a Lotus Sametime® plug-in so
users can schedule or instantly invite colleagues to join immersive,
media rich 3D meetings directly from their Sametime client. A
demonstration of this integration between Sametime with OLIVE is
available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVY8fmKXH9Y.
-
A Meetings content pack featuring professionally developed 3D meeting
environments including an auditorium, board, media and conference
rooms, training facilities, a hotel, and a mansion for corporate
offsites.
-
Distributed 3D record-and-replay of any session including voice and
audio, avatar movements, behaviors, and gestures.
-
Support of 3D model import into OLIVE for Autodesk 3ds Max and Maya,
Google Sketchup, Blender, Poser Pro, FaceGen, and Softimage, and other
content authoring tools which provide COLLADA file export options.
-
Pioneering of a Paged Terrain File (PTF) open standard which enables
importing terrain databases and satellite imagery for mirror world and
other real-world applications.
About Forterra Systems
Forterra Systems is the leader in providing enterprise grade virtual
world technology for the corporate, healthcare, government, education,
and entertainment industries. Forterra's software and services enable
organizations to train, plan, rehearse, and collaborate using new media
technologies integrated into a compelling 3D virtual world. Using the
OLIVE™ (On-Line Interactive Virtual
Environment) platform and industry standard PC hardware, customers can
rapidly generate realistic, collaborative, 3D Internet solutions that
scale from single user applications to large scale simulated
environments supporting many thousands of concurrent users for public
and private use cases. http://www.forterrainc.com
MULTIMEDIA GALLERY http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=5776184
See the original story at: http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/forterra/virtual/prweb1321644.htm
Post Comment:
Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/U3VtbS1aZXRhLVpldGEtQ291cC1TcXVhLVNpbmctWmVybw==
Bookmark -
Del.icio.us |
Furl It |
Technorati |
Ask |
MyWeb |
Propeller |
Live Bookmarks |
Newsvine |
TailRank |
Reddit |
Slashdot |
Digg |
Stumbleupon |
Google Bookmarks |
Sphere |
Blink It |
Spurl
|
