Client Spotlight: Norfolk Southern Corporation

Norfolk Southern Corporation is one of the nation’s premier transportation companies, operating approximately 20,000 route miles in 22 states and the District of Columbia, and serving every major container port in the eastern United States.  Not only do they provide efficient connections to other rail carriers, but they also operate the most extensive inter-modal network in the East and is a major transporter of coal, automotive, and industrial products.

We recently created an internal communications video for the fine folks at Norfolk Southern to help communicate the benefits of their new software solution called RailEdge – Movement Planner.  The software was designed to improve railway operations and logistics across the company’s vast railway network.

“The EON Reality video was actually the second video production by EON Reality related to RailEdge – Movement Planner.  In this project, Norfolk Southern had a need to develop a video piece that had two primary goals:  to be an engaging training video with animations describing the software, but at the same time provide a visual description that allows our valued employees to embrace this new technology,” said Charlie Turnipseed, Manager Dispatch Planning Systems.  “EON surpassed both goals and was such a success that we are now in engaging them on another project.”

“EON Reality is the leader in visualization solutions and simulation based technology.   We have a long list of experience at conveying complex concepts and ideas in a very unique and visual way.  The end result is that it is easy for the end user to understand,” said Frank Botdorf, Director of Business Development, EON Reality, Inc.

EON Reality is Nominated for Laval Virtual Awards 2013!

It seems that we have ANOTHER reason to be excited!

 A midst all the excitement of our upcoming inauguration next week in Manchester, UK, we were recently informed of our nomination for the EON Icube Mobile for the Laval Virtual Awards 2013!

For those of you unfamiliar with the event, the Laval Virtual awards are presented by an international jury of specialists as part of a competition whose scope is unique in its field, and acknowledges the highly technical nature of the winning projects.  This year, the ceremony will be taking place on Thursday, March 21 at Laval theater.

We wish all the nominees the best of luck, and are truly thankful for our own nomination!

Dan Lejerskar and EON Reality at MIPIM in Cannes, France

Anyone that knows our Chairman Dan Lejerskar knows that he should win an award for “World Traveler of the Year”, often moving and shaking for months at a time and sleeping, well, never!

So what’s Dan been up to lately?  Our man recently made a stop in Cannes, France to share his infinite wisdom at MIPIM, the leading real estate event for property professionals that brings together the most influential players from all international property sectors – office, residential, retail, healthcare, sport, logistics and industrial.  Speaking on the upcoming opening of EON Reality’s European headquarters in Manchester, UK next week, Dan also shed some insight on the future of 3D content, its ability to support global collaboration, and how the market and 3D technology is in the midst of a revolution.

“I used to be an aircraft simulator engineer, so we used to put pilots in $50M simulators turning one engine off and one engine on, put bad weather and asked them to land the aircraft.  That method of experiential learning or knowledge transfer is essentially what we do, whether we sell a property today using this technology or we teach kids. The only difference is when I started 23 years ago it used to cost roughly $50M to do it.  Today, I can do it on the my mobile phone in my seat.”  (Want to see his full presentation? You can check it out here!)

And of course, members of our talented EON Reality team were also there to help show off a little bit of our awesome technology.  AKI (Aspire Katara Investment) and Katara Cultural Village in Doha, Qatar, used our EON Icube Mobile system to let spectators virtually walk through the existing Katara site and also experience property development projects months and years before completion.   The complete development site included both commercial and private properties, and a large area of cultural facilities such as theaters concert halls, exhibition galleries and aims to become a world leader in its domain.  Judging from the excitement and smiles from visitors, we think it was a huge success!

And there you have it, everyone. We’re thrilled to see Virtual Reality and interactive 3D being so widely embraced- we’re definitely excited to see where it takes us next! And speaking of ‘next’, be sure to check us out at the official inauguration of our European headquarters in Manchester, UK!  Check out our website for more info.

 

EON Reality Featured in BizTech Magazine!

EON Reality was recently featured in an article by BizTech Magazine as one of three innovating businesses finding new ways to tackle old challenges.  

“You have such a realistic environment that you can do it virtually and be much better prepared when you get out in the field,” Johansson explains.

Two challenges, however, make the tool out of reach for many: It’s expensive, and it requires a lot of space. “We wanted to create a solution that had at least close to that immersive experience, but that can be done in a much smaller footprint, at a lower cost and also set up in a shorter period of time,” Johansson says.

Be sure to read the full article here!

EON Reality Technology to be Showcased at ODU Open House!

Calling all Virtual Reality enthusiasts!  

Check out EON Reality’s technology featured at the Technology Showcase and Open House on Tuesday, March 26 at Old Dominion University!  See how the latest immersive 3D, learning advanced interfaces and telepresence robotic technologies are changing how we learn, teach, train and do business.  Presentations begin at 9:30am! For more information, please email phec@odu.edu.

ODU Peninsula Center
600 Butler Farm Road, 2md Floor
Hampton, VA 23666
757-766-5200
Groups of 15 or more, please RSVP

Experience Katara Cultural Village in the Immersive EON Icube Mobile at MIPIM in Cannes

We’re excited to announce that the EON Icube Mobile will be used at the world’s leading property market event at MIPIM in Cannes, France from March 12-15.  AKI (Aspire Katara Investment) and Katara Cultural Village in Doha, Qatar, will be using our immersive EON Icube Mobile system to offer event visitors an unprecedented way of virtually walking through the existing Katara site and related new development projects to come.

The project also offers a unique way for visitors to experience property development projects months and years before completion, enabling crucial planning and investment decisions to be made in a more informed way. The original data consisted of over 250 Gigabytes of information, and was processed and optimized in EON Reality’s state of the art 3D authoring software, to enable an interactive 3D walk through in the immersive EON Icube Mobile system. The complete development site will include both commercial and private properties, and a large area of cultural facilities such as theaters  concert halls, exhibition galleries and aims to become a world leader in its domain.

“We are absolutely thrilled to be able to use the EON Icube Mobile system to present this unique project,” says Dr. Khalid Bin Ibrahim Al-Sulaiti, General Manager of Cultural Village Foundation - Katara. “Our future customers, partners and investors can now visit the Katara Cultural Village virtually and experience it as if ‘being there’ – and will be able to not only walk through the existing infrastructure and facilities, but also the new developments coming up, and experience it in the most realistic way possible in scale 1:1.,” concludes Malika Mohammed Al-Shraim, Public Relations & Communications Manager of Cultural Village Foundation – Katara.

“We are proud to have been selected by AKI and Katara Cultural Village to provide our interactive 3D solutions for this world-class project,” says Pontus Appelqvist, VP Sales, Asia of EON Reality. “EON Reality is always aiming to innovate and pioneer the use of interactive 3D solutions, and our Singapore team has done a tremendous job in making this project a success,” concludes Pontus Appelqvist.

EON Reality software is now available on Android and iOS mobile devices!

If you’ve ever played around with EON Reality’s advanced developer software, EON Professional, you know it offers a high level of visual realism that would make you think you’re looking at the real thing (whether that “thing” be an eye, engine, or brain).  Well, here’s some more news that will excite you even more!

Thanks to the hard work of our talented development team, you can now take your EON content and publish it on your Android and iOS mobile devices. (Don’t believe us? Here’s a sneak peek: EON Mobile platform).  This new support for mobile platforms means that users can now create stunning, highly interactive content using EON Professional on the Android or iOS mobile device of their choice. EON Professional is a developer software that allows users to combine high quality visuals with an easy to use interface.

Content can be exported from EON Professional as either a standalone app directly to Google Play for Android, the Apple App Store, or to the EON Experience portal. Users can also convert existing 3D models from the EON Experience portal and export them to the mobile platform of your choice.  “With an explosive growth of mobile devices, we are now moving into a new interactive 3D technology era.  We are proud to provide a mobile platform solution that will be beneficial to far more users. We have just seen the starting point for educational virtual 3D learning solutions. Imagine when we now can create Augmented Reality applications and mix reality with super imposed interactive 3D objects to the real world,” said Dan Lejerskar, Chairman, EON Reality.