Introduction to Present3D

Present3D is a real breakthrough in power, flexibility and ease of use for both mono and stereo visualisation authoring tools. Completely cross platform, the same presentation can go from laptop, to desktop, to multipipe stereo visualisation environment independent of the OS and hardware used and, most importantly, any one can use it! No programming skills required! And it gets better, Present3D allows the creation of seamless presentations that combine, text, bulleted text, backgrounds, images, stereo images, movies, stereo movies, point cloud models, polygonal models (over thirty formats currently supported including massive terrain and vizsim .flt models) and animation paths, all in a real time, fully interactive environment....drop in a model, turn it, zoom in and explore a detail, fly through and around it..... but why stop at just one model, Present3D uses the familiar slideshow format of applications like Powerpoint, so not only can a single slide combine all of these elements, including multiple models, but you can have as many slides as you require. Go from a text and movie introduction, to a fly through of a virtual town, to a full colour laser scan....what ever is required to explain your research, product, topic or design. By using animation paths and the autorun facility you can also build fully interactive stereo kiosks, for medical information, science centres, museums and heritage applications, now the limit is your imagination.

Why stereo visualisation?

It is the way your brain expects to see things, with a left eye view and a right eye view, and from the minor differences that around 60mm of eye separation creates in these two views, the brain is able to calculate depth and therefore able to construct and understand the real world we experience every day. It is the difference between looking at a flat photograph or illustration of an object and reaching out and touching the object itself.

Who can benefit from stereo?

If you work with, or need to explain, 3d content or complex data then stereo is essential. Stereo provides all the depth information that the brain requires to understand the scene, allowing it to concentrate on understanding the problem, rather than image processing. So everyone can benefit. You just need to see it, to believe it!

Not just for stereo

Along with amazing benefits that using stereo can offer, Present3D will work in mono just as well as stereo. This means that Present3D is the perfect tool for presenting your work in the best possible way, with out the need to change applications.

For help with installing and using present3D please visit the support pages.