REALVIZ Photo Modeling for 3DVIA Communities

By DE Editors

Dassault Systemes (Paris, France) and REALVIZ (Sophia Antipolis, France), a developer of image-processing software, have entered into an expanded partnership to integrate REALVIZ technology with DS's 3DVIA online platform.

REALVIZ's VTour software creates photorealistic 3D virtual tours of existing environments from a single photo or a panorama. Through image-based modeling techniques using polygonal primitives and automatic photo-texturing, the software will allow 3D environments, from pictures to videos, to be reused in 3DVIA.

"Image-based 3D backdrops generated from REALVIZ's VTour, when integrated with Virtools, will allow users to enjoy lifelike experiences merging real and virtual," says Florence Hu, vice president for R&D of 3DVIA at Dassault Systemes.

With the new version of VTour, REALVIZ is introducing the capability to create 3D HDR scenes, using spatial image-based lighting (SIBL). The HDR textures maps and the corresponding 3D geometry created in VTour give depth to the real-world lighting captured in the original photographs.  For more information, click here.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.