From: "Mark Ferneau" <ferneau@best.com>
Subject: Re: MISC: software firms e-mail adresses
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 14:05:52 -0800


Frank,
We have worked with a tool that has been created by Fujitsu to do just this.
They have recreated entire towns in Japan using their software and
many photographs.  Let me know if you would like more information on it.

Note that we've created something slightly different for Intel as a
prototype of a real estate market sales tools which is more requires
less data creation.  It combines 3D, video and qtvr.  The URL is:
http://www.sense8.com/realestate/

--Mark
(markf@sense8.com)

Frank Huijsmans wrote in message <347e0576.8930466@news.casema.net>...
>
>I would like to send out a questionaire to software firms that deliver
>authoring tools or build content I would like to receive any
>***e-mail*** adresses, so if you have would you be so kind to send it
>to me by e-mail (remove part of the antispam string in my e-mail
>address in this message).
>
>Any comment/suggestion on the questionaire would be appreciated!
>
>Questionaire:
>=======
>
>I am looking for a solution on the next question:
>
>is it possible to create on-the-fly photorealistic 3D/VRML-walkthrough
>environments and in a cost-effective way?
>
>It is not impossible to create 3D/VRML environments. But is it
>cost-effective?
>
>I am looking for a solution where real-estate agents can create such
>environments on-the-fly, generating a walkthrough environment only by
>taking pictures at a site and have these automatically translated in
>3D (if needed with only a minimal input of data by hand: geographical
>coordinates, groundsize).
>Any solution that would take much manual labour would not be a
>solution.
>The goal is to be able to show customers (like an overseas investor)
>on short notice (within a couple of hours) with a 3D/VRML walkthrough
>environment, in which the customer can walk around in one of the rooms
>(only one as example - like the room of the board of directors) (fully
>furnished with replaceable objects) and have an idea of the view
>outside.
>
>I am looking forward to your response. State in which way you can play
>a role in a solution and the costs. Thanks in advance!
>----------------------------------
>Frank Huijsmans
>The Hague, Netherlands
>
>http:// to be created yet
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