EON Reality presents: Virtual Reality for the Oil & Gas Industry

Have you registered yet for our webinar on Virtual Reality within the Oil & Gas industry?

Virtual Reality and immersive 3D applications have become increasingly utilized within all phases of the oil and gas industry.  In our free webinar, you will learn how Virtual Reality solutions can help:

- Create 3D visualizations of complex survey results
- Reduce costs of infrastructure, time, and travel
- Help avoid low probability/high consequence events
- Provide simulation based training in immersive simulators

Join Mats Johansson, President and CEO of EON Reality, and Joe Cheben, EON Advisory Board member, on Wednesday, January 23 at 11am PST as they discuss the various benefits of EON’s Virtual Reality solutions and how they will benefit the oil and gas industry moving forward.  Register today!

EON Reality at the 2012 SENAI Knowledge Olympics in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Servico Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial (SENAI), the second largest vocational training organization in the world, has selected EON Reality technology to assist with increasing retention and engagement levels among their students. EON Reality’s systems are currently being showcased this week, from November 12-18, 2012, at the 7th annual Knowledge Olympics in São Paulo, Brazil, the largest competition of professional education in the Americas. About 4,000 competitors, coaches, evaluators and organizers, and over 250,000 visitors are expected to attend.  The President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, and the former President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, also attended.

The competition is sponsored by SENAI every two years and challenges students of different technical backgrounds and vocational training to perform business tasks within deadlines and international quality standards. Students are selected from different SENAI schools throughout the country to compete, with their performance acting as an assessment tool to measure the quality of education offered by SENAI. Performance results are also used to monitor technological trends and changes in job profiles that guide SENAI in updating curricula in schools.  The Knowledge Olympics is regarded as a showcase of the highest quality that reflects the caliber of professional education provided by Brazilian industry.

Two EON Icube Mobile systems are currently being featured at the event. A complete turnkey visualization and Virtual Reality system configured with 4 walls for full immersion, the EON Icube Mobile provides high quality graphics and is built on PC cluster technology to provide unsurpassed immersion when used with motion tracking and VR interactive devices. The EON Ibench Mobile, our newest table-top stereoscopic 3D display solution, is also being displayed at the event.  The system utilizes Infinite Z’s virtual-holographic 3D visualization technology, zSpace®, and is set to enable commercial and educational professionals accelerate design and development processes and improve the way people learn, teach and communicate in today’s world.

“SENAI are true innovators when it comes to education. With their high growth demand of students we feel that their approach to combine excitement of a video game with the natural interaction that you have in the simulator, to increase the retention level through the engagement and interactive aspects of the technology, is the best educational road to take. We see this approach as an effective way to rapidly address the demand at a very efficient and cost effective rate,” said Dan Lejerskar, Chairman, EON Reality.

Stay tuned fore more updates and pictures from the event!

VR in Manufacturing: EON Reality’s Frank Botdorf speaks to NEPIRC

Frank Botdorf, East Coast Director of Business Development at EON Reality, recently spoke to Chamber of Commerce members, local manufacturers, and the NEPIRC Board of Directors about interactive 3D technologies for technical training, virtual prototyping, and new product development at NEPIRC, the Northeastern Pennsylvania Industrial Resource Center.  NEPIRC is a non-profit corporation that provides strategic consulting assistance to small and mid-sized manufacturers in the northeastern Pennsylvania region and has been providing services to their clients since 1988.

Mr. Botdorf’s presentation included a live interactive 3D demonstration via the EON Icatcher, a DLP portable 3D projection system, that demonstrated the power and possibilities of interactive 3D for cross-training, improved ROI in manufacturing, and overall improvement in operational efficiencies. Participants had the opportunity to inspect the inside of an engine and assess production line efficiencies to give them an idea of how virtual reality can be used in manufacturing. Companies such as Boeing, Honeywell, Siemens, GE, Whirlpool and Tobyhanna Army Depot have already used EON Reality’s 3D imaging systems to reduce new employee training times, aid in new product development, create virtual prototypes, improve machinery maintenance techniques, and simulate product performance and wear characteristics.

“EON Reality provided our local manufacturers with real-life examples of how interactive 3D and simulation-based technologies can shorten new employee training times, compress new product development cycles and close more sales – this technology fits in very nicely with NEPIRC’s focus on helping manufacturers leverage cutting-edge innovation for higher profitability” said Eric Joseph Esoda, CPA, NEPIRC Executive Director.

Want more information on how you can use VR technologies in your industry? Contact us today!

Ken Swain is Appointed Managing Director of EON Reality Ltd. in Manchester, UK

In addition to all the recent buzz surrounding EON Reality’s recent arrival to the UK, we’re also happy to announce that Ken Swain has been appointed Managing Director for our new European headquarters!

Ken has 30+ years of global experience in interactive 3D technologies, visual communications and creative services, and will strengthen EON Reality’s position in the European market as well as provide a strategic role in development of future technologies.

Born and educated in the UK, Ken has worked on nuclear defense, medical and marine projects before moving to Australia where he worked with prominent mining and engineering companies, developing his skills in manufacturing, industrial design, research and development. He was an early adopter of 3D CAD-CAM in the 1980’s and achieved an Australian Design award and Japanese G-Mark award for his design work.

In the early 1990’s Ken set up his own design and visualization practice. During this time he became a member of the Design Institute of Australia, a certified instructor for Alias|Wavefront, a Visiting Lecturer at Curtin University of Technology and an advisor to the Australian Government for Design and Technology curriculum.

Ken returned to the UK in 1995 and was recruited by Alias|Wavefront (now Autodesk) to develop and manage their design and entertainment 3D software training and consulting services across Western Europe. In 2002 he left Alias to start Design Academy Ltd and developed a successful business offering innovative 3D solutions to industry, government and education built around Autodesk’s 3D Max, Maya and EON Reality’s interactive 3D software. Ken re-joined EON Reality Inc. in October 2011 as Business Development Director for UK before this latest appointment.

“Having worked with EON products for many years, I am looking forward to developing the new European Centre and increasing the use of interactive 3D across the region. With the increasing growth of 3D technology the time is right to build on Manchester’s reputation for innovation and creativity, by bringing together creative people, developers, integrators, education and government to change the education and industrial learning space.

In Manchester we have the second largest creative cluster in the whole of Europe and no other European city has invested as much in its digital sector to create a global hub for creative and digital businesses like EON Reality’s Interactive R&D European Centre.

With the new EON Entrepreneur Coding School, we are going to build a talent pool for creating 3D content. New skills will be learnt, many new jobs will be created, young students will understand difficult concept easier and adults will absorb information faster. With our investment in people and a committed team behind the project, EON Reality will help Manchester to become Europe’s top digital city by 2020,” said Ken Swain.

“We are very pleased to establish our European base in Manchester. We view this as a key step for our growth strategy for Europe and beyond. Having the right person on the job to manage growth and implement our strategy is vital and having Ken Swain on the ground fulfils that need. His extensive 3D market experience from technology as well as the business side is exactly what we need,” said Mats Johansson, CEO and Co-founder EON Reality.

EON Reality is now in Manchester, United Kingdom!

So you may have heard the recent news- and yes, it’s true! We’ve officially expanded our European operation by opening a new global interactive research and development center (IDC) and Entrepreneur Coding School in Manchester, United Kingdom! We are extremely excited for the future and are thankful to everyone for their warm wishes and kind words.

Our European HQ forms an extension to The Sharp Project, Manchester’s digital and production complex in Newton Heath, and is expected to create more than 240 new jobs over the next three years. Not only will it offer interactive and digital media technology solutions, training and professional services, but the global IDC will also provide access to state-of-the-art interactive 3D technologies including a virtual reality showroom, training room, project room, development lab, and 3D classroom infrastructure to create a center of excellence in Manchester and attract customers from all over Europe.  As for the Entrepreneurial Coding School, it will deliver a comprehensive program aimed at developing Manchester’s workforce with interactive and 3D technology skills including coding, design and development, to train 500 students over the next 5 years in digital skills.

So there you have it! A lot of exciting things happening for us and we’d love to have you be a part of it! If you’re interested in our current career openings or in enrolling into our Entrepreneur Coding School, please send us a message here!  And remember to keep up with us on Facebook and Twitter, too!