Our Creative Interaction Technology

Innovation

Areas of innovation include the design and development of the core real time 3D engine specially designed for interactive project visualization, along with the development of a project design application. The capabilities of this engine extend to the ability to generate a range of project sizes, from single building developments to large-scale fully landscaped multi-building projects. The ability to instantly and dynamically generate the scene allows the user to select customizations and make immediate changes significantly improving the workflow and reducing production times.

RoamInteractive™

Roam Interactive’s powerful multi-threaded GPU based 3d hardware and our proprietary real-time RoamInteractive™ engine and design tool is specially developed for completely interactive project visualisations.  The limitations inherent in linear presentations are removed.  Instead of working in low quality, with banks of dedicated computers needed to render high quality images and animations as with traditional techniques,  Roam Interactive generates photo-realistic images and animations instantly.  No rendering required.  Beyond the interactive capabilities, cross media use such as brochure quality and even billboard size images are instantly ready in full quality.

This creative interaction technology significantly improves the production process, provides a real-time full quality 3d WYSIWYG design tool and enables new possibilities in customer interaction. Visualisations are generated by the system at full rate, in full high definition, and with all the technologies available to generate a realistic display such as real-time reflections, GPU shaders, custom material effects, real-time shadows, dynamic real-time global illumination and heaps more. The capabilities are scalable and can expand from house and apartment interiors, medium to large scale high rise buildings and facilities to massive large scale property developments complete with thousands of trees, lakes, rivers and beaches spread over many hectares. The system is also capable of true dynamics and physics, such as wind for the leaves, water for lakes, driving cars and realistic 3d motion captured people that intelligently and autonomously navigate through the virtual environment.

This is not simply an interactive DVD with a rudimentary interface to allow the viewer to select a pre-set animation or video clip from a supplied series. The entire scene is generated by Roam Interactive’s technology “on the fly” to deliver a truly interactive experience, and by simply touching the screen, the viewer can journey anywhere they choose

 

 

Streamlined Design Process

The real time interactive scene design application is a proprietary development tool enabling the efficient and creative construction of 3D scenes and the addition of interactivity through the touch screen interface. This application is unique, as the scene designer or 3D artist is now working in final quality at all times. There is no longer the need to generate time consuming renders. Current 3d visualization applications are not capable of real-time generation of final quality output and require the designer to work in low quality ‘proxy’ views, and submit the scene for time consuming rendering to provide final quality images and fixed path animations.

Revolutionary Design Tool

The Roam Interactive design tool assists in the design process by allowing the client to give immediate feedback on colours within the visualization, which in turn allows them to be changed on the spot. If a blue feature wall needs to be slightly darker this can be effected real time. Immediate feedback on the design and layout of trees within the scene is available and trees can be “planted” in real time. Other changes that can also affect the overall look and feel of an Interactive can be made immediately e.g. Time of day, length of shadows, brightness and colour of the sun, and terrain blending such as mulch blending into gravel paths and more.

The highly experienced team at Roam Interactive has years of industry experience and worked closely with the project personnel at Renewing Homebush Bay to come up with the ultimate interactive representation of their development.

Multi-touch

The natural and intuitive touch screen interface provides a natural way to explore the 3d environments. By simply touching a part of the development on the screen, the viewer can explore in detail. With the power of touch gestures, options are selected by swiping across the screen or simply flicking through a list. Three dimensional control is enabled with two fingers being used at once to perform 3d rotation and zooming within the environment. Exploring has never been so easy to use and fun.

Presentation systems can be setup from simple stand alone touch screen units to large theatre like presentation spaces. Incorporating this system into a project display centre means capabilities and customer impact far in excess of traditional tools such as looping videos and static physical models. Now the presentation of a development is available in a tailored and highly relevant manner. The system also includes instantly generated custom brochures and other personalisation features.

 

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