Visualize This

Visualize This (VT) is a small start-up company specializing in practical(prenominal) reality and computing device visual percepts. Located in the research park of a major university, the company was founded by Isaac Trice, a university professor, and staffed with the brightest of his designer students. By all accounts the technology is cutting edge. Facilities include a lab of 14 high- shoemakers last computer workstations neighboring to a CAVE (computer-aided virtual environment) and a small office. A conference room and central pressure group are dual-lane with other tenants in the building.Originally the company had partnered with the Swedish firm Salvania to create virtual environments for medical and industrial design. Trice and his staff would develop the software for each application create a visual database supported with engineering or medical data, and run design sessions for their clients in the CAVE. Salvania provided the capital, generated the clients, and handle d the business end of the operations. In its first two years of business, VT completed four projects.With each project, VT advanced its skills in visualization and developed customized tools to help its clients design intricate products. The clients were pleased but did non anticipate repeating the intensive design process for several years. Unfortunately, Salvania was un subject to remain solvent and dissolved its partnership with Visualize This. VT was able to keep its workstations (whose salvage value was low), but gave up its rights to the CAVE and furloughed all but three employees. To delay afloat, VT needed new clients and a steady stream of income.Trice hit the streets and came back with the following possibilities designing computer-based training sessions for bank tellers of an international finance institution Conducting software certification for the sales staff of a large software vendor Designing virtual reality tours through history for a major museum Developin g Web-based virtual models for a womens clothing retailer Creating virtual catalogues in which a customer sight enlarge, rotate, and dissect a product online.This isnt what I had in mind for my company, Trice lamented as he shared the list with his employees. I wanted to be developing the next generation of visualization tools in project with the brightest minds in industry, not digitizing pictures of products and making them turn around, or teaching people to use software thats not even our own