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SBIR Success Story for Open Tech, Inc (Information Posted/Updated on 06/19/2007) |
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Open Tech, Inc 2000 Kraft Drive Suite 1101 Blacksburg, VA 24060 Contact: Daniel Larimer Phone: 540-239-1863 E-mail: dlarimer@opentechinc.com Web Site: http://www.opentechinc.com/ |
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Project Title: Collaborative Virtual Environments (CoVE) |
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| NIST Award(s): SB1341-05-W-0846,SB1341-04-W-1123 | |
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Technology Developed:
Open Tech has developed an immersive Virtual Reality user interface framework to support the rapid development of collaborative, multi-user, multi-tasking, reusable applications.
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| Key Words: Virtual Reality, Collaborative, VEWL, API, Visualization , Interface, Software. | |
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Uses of Technology/Products/Service:
Our CoVE technology enables virtual reality application developers to create reusable and user-friendly immersive applications. CoVE does for virtual reality what Windows did for DOS. By enabling true multi-tasking, CoVE is the first Virtual Reality software that enables an VR interaction technique, component, or utility to be reused without consideration for other VR programs running within the same immersive space. VEWL provides user interfaces that are familiar and easy to use. These interfaces allow VR developers save time and money while providing new kinds of control to their users.
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Benefit to Company:
The NIST SBIR program enabled us to found Open Tech and enter the VR market with an idea developed by the founder doing research as part of a graduate class at Virginia Tech. Through the research and development of CoVE Open Tech has gained the technical expertise and experience needed to win additional software contracts that leverage and apply CoVE to different industries, such as robotics.
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Impact on Company Growth:
Tactical, Strategic |
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How Product Was Commercialized:
The product has been commercialized as a means to sell our software development services to other companies. CoVE gives us a distinct competitive advantage over our competitors that would require years of R&D to implement what we provide to our customers with CoVE.
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| Past R&D and/or Sales from this Project: $75K | |
| Estimated Future Annual R&D and/or Sales from this Project: $750K | |
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