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Press Releases 2009
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Wednesday, 24 June 2009 |
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Virtalis Creates VR System for Ground Breaking Surgical Research 
IN RECENT years, significant resources and research activities worldwide have been invested in the creation of Virtual Reality (VR) environments to train specialised skills for surgeons. Virtalis was one of the first, creating a trainer for minimally invasive therapy. Now, a research team from De Montfort University has begun work on assessing the feasibility for a whole team VR surgical trainer with Virtalis both supplying and designing the VR research platform.
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Press Releases 2009
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Friday, 15 May 2009 |
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NATIONAL Grid has embarked on a voyage of virtual discovery. It has installed a StereoWorks system from Virtalis, Europe’s leading Virtual Reality (VR) Company.  John Tyler, National Grid’s transmission technical training manager, explained: “We are poised to revolutionise the training of our operational field force and training scheme recruits. Everyone who has seen the Stereoworks system agrees it certainly has the “wow factor”. Our trainee engineers are already conversant with digital technology when they join us, so it makes sense to take that familiarity one step further and introduce them to the Company’s engineering assets via VR. Now we’ve got the infrastructure in place, we are beginning to create 3D training. A National Grid switchgear supplier has supplied us with their CAD models and we are converting them into VR models.”
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Press Releases 2009
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Tuesday, 10 March 2009 |
 EUROPE’s leading Virtual Reality (VR) company, Virtalis, has recruited a new senior manager to head up its expanding technical team. Previously, Jason Riley was a multimedia specialist at an international power company. Virtalis MD David Cockburn-Price, commented: “Jason holds a pivotal position in our new corporate structure. He will be responsible for managing the hardware team and streamlining processes for kit ordering, shipping and installation. As our international installations grow in number and the diversity of our work increases, this is no mean technical and logistical challenge!” |
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Press Releases 2009
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Sunday, 08 March 2009 |
 MARCH 26th is the date for the Virtalis half-day seminar on haptics, or virtual touch, at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) in Sheffield. Virtalis is Europe’s leading Virtual Reality (VR) company and one of the world’s leading authorities on haptics. The seminar is open to all interested parties at no cost and will include hands-on demonstrations, a buffet lunch and examples of the variety of uses of haptic systems globally. |
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Press Releases 2009
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Friday, 27 February 2009 |
 WORLDVIZ, a leading US Virtual Reality (VR) hardware and software supplier, has improved the functionality of its Vizard software by launching Live Characters, a feature that allows real-time virtual interaction. Virtalis, Europe’s leading Advanced Visualisation Company, is the sole UK reseller for WorldViz hardware and software. |
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Press Releases 2009
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Monday, 23 February 2009 |
 VIRTUAL Reality Company, Virtalis, has expanded into the US. David Cockburn-Price, Virtalis MD, explains: “We have never been so busy. Recent months have seen us winning a great deal of overseas business and almost doubling the size of our technical team. In a recession, people look to cut costs and VR is an excellent way to do it with a superb RoI and rapid payback. With an increasing number of installations in the US, it makes sense for us to have a team permanently based there, both to service our existing customers and to bring our unique technology to new ones. We hope to expand rapidly within the US and establish a top team.” |
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Press Releases 2009
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Friday, 06 February 2009 |
 THE ROYAL Veterinary College (RVC) boasts one of the world’s biggest comparative motion research groups. Over the last year, the use of a portable, laser, digital CT scanner called the FastSCAN Cobra from Virtalis has transformed the way the researchers gather data. The RVC’s Structure and Motion Laboratory is headed up by Prof. Alan Wilson and carries out a wide range of research, including the prediction of lameness in both humans and animals and theoretical research into the gait of long extinct animals. |
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Press Releases 2009
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Friday, 30 January 2009 |
 AIRBUS in Broughton, Flintshire has just taken delivery of a complete Virtalis StereoWorks VR suite. The top of the range system comprises a 3D stereo, dual channel, Christie projection system with Intersense head and hand tracking and a heavy duty, Haption, 6-DOF, force feedback system. The StereoWorks system has been procured to assist in the validation of methods and process improvements of composites manufacturing required for the new A350XWB aircraft. |
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Press Releases 2009
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Thursday, 08 January 2009 |
 VIRTALIS has just recruited Barry King, 31, to fulfil a senior programming role in the Company’s famous Development Team, which is responsible for some of the world’s most ground breaking Virtual Reality (VR) projects. |
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Press Releases 2009
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Thursday, 08 January 2009 |
 VIRTALIS has just recruited two young graduates direct from University for its world renowned Development Team. Over the last fifteen years, the Virtalis Dev Team has been responsible for many of the technological breakthroughs in Virtual Reality (VR). Both the new programmers have degrees in majoring in Computer Games and have each managed to transform their boyhood hobby into a career. |
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Press Releases 2008
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Thursday, 18 December 2008 |
 A PIONEERING international businessman who has helped bring cutting edge technologies to market has become the new non-executive chairman at The Virtalis Group. Glyn Read has worked with companies whose technology later became better known to us as the Internet and Data Analytics, and he now plans to bring his experience and influence to bear on Virtual Reality (VR). |
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Press Releases 2008
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Wednesday, 05 November 2008 |
 SUCH is the unprecedented level of system installation at Virtual Reality (VR) specialists, Virtalis, that its hardware team has added more members. An old staff member, Warwick Shaw, has returned, having decided to take a break from his teaching career, and Virtalis welcomes afresh Stuart Mitchell who has joined from BT. |
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Press Releases 2008
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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 |
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 The VIRTALIS booth at the European PTC World events in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 14th November and at the Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon, Warwickshire, UK on 18th November will be different from all other previous Virtalis exhibition displays. One will feature full tracking, enabling those viewing the stereoscopic 3D models to get a greater sense of reality. Not only will their view of the model alter according to their own movements in front of the screen but they will also be able to reach out and touch the data.
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Press Releases 2008
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Tuesday, 30 September 2008 |
 ALSTOM Power is inviting its customers and potential customers to enter the world of virtual reality quite literally. Since discovering the wow factor that 3D stereoscopic viewing brings, Alstom has commissioned a model of the globe and selected power plants from leading VR company, Virtalis. Viewers are able to fly down from space toward flags marking the sites of Alstom power stations around the world.
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Press Releases 2008
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Thursday, 25 September 2008 |
 ACCURATE tracking is a vital component of Virtual Reality (VR) and is something that Virtalis has many years of experience in building into its systems. The tracker plots a person’s movements in a virtual environment in real time, giving the user a very realistic experience. |
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Press Releases 2008
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Friday, 19 September 2008 |
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 A SECOND Virtalis StereoWorks system has been installed in AMRC’s new Ł10 million “Rolls-Royce Factory of the Future” in Sheffield.
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Articles
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Monday, 04 August 2008 |
 Click to Download : Haption & PTC (Eureka Jul08).pdf (65.73 KB) |
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Press Releases 2008
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Friday, 01 August 2008 |
 The 33rd International Geological Congress in Oslo will give the global community of geologists a sneak preview of GeoVisionary. The truly groundbreaking 3D landscape visualising software was developed jointly by Virtalis and the British Geological Survey (BGS) and is due to be formally launched in London later this year.
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Press Releases 2008
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Tuesday, 29 July 2008 |
 FASTSCAN, the non-contact digitiser for fast scanning 3D objects from Polhemus, has just got smaller and more accurate. As Europe’s foremost Virtual Reality Company, Virtalis is the distributor for the FastSCAN in the UK. |
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Press Releases 2008
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 |
 THE FASCINATING world of haptics, or virtual touch, is something that Virtalis has successfully integrated into its advanced visualisation systems over the last decade. Haption is a leading haptics company, all of whose products provide force feedback on all six degrees of freedom (6 dof). This enables the life like simulation of interaction between two 3D virtual objects, giving the users realistic, real-time force feedback akin to the sensation of touch.
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Press Room 
Virtalis operates in many sectors and the diversity of our projects are represented by the press releases we distribute each year. Below you will see a sample of the most recent.
THE Stealth Mouse is the world's finest mouse, developed especially for mapping, and has been brought to the UK by Virtalis, Europe’s leading Virtual Reality (VR) company. 
