News/Events 01 NOV 2009: NHB & Visual Factory announce Museums R Us
National Heritage Board & Visual Factory Pte Ltd announce the Launch of MUSEUMS R US, a 3D Cybermuseum Competition on Creating Virtual Galleries
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01 NOV 2009: Build Your Own Virtual Museum Competition
Using the newly developed Cybermuseum platform by Visual Factory, exhibitions and virtual museums supported by rich multimedia can now be created by anyone. To help promote this platform, Visual Factory is organising a competition for people to create themed virtual galleries
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01 OCT 2009 : Success secrets of 20 top achievers
Master of the Virtual World Nestled in the leafy suburbs of Singapore, nearly a dozen IT professionals are busy weaving virtual dreams. They are recreating virtual editions of some of the Lion City's well-known museums.
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24 SEP 2009: SLACTIONS Second Life's Research Conference
The metaverse is emerging, through the increasing use of virtual world technologies that act as platforms for end-users to create, develop, and interact, expanding the realm of human cooperation, interaction, and creativity. The conference focus is scientific research on applications and developments of these metaverse platforms.
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3D Cybermuseum Competition 2009
Cybermuseum is built on top of Visual Factory’s in-house engine – MagicStitch™. MagicStitch™ from a high level perspective is essentially a collection of applications and tools that enable users of different background and needs to create, develop and maintain a virtual world. It comprises the Creator, the Publisher, the Viewer, the Developer and the Tools.
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27 AUG 2009 : Museums in Cyberspace
Lovers of art and culture can look forward to a Cybermuseum next year. Several museums under the National Heritage Board are launching online special galleries featuring their iconic or favourite pieces in three-dimensional graphics.
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06 AUG 2009 :Stitching Together a 3D VWorld of Opportunity
Founder and CEO of Visual Factory, Ilan Ofek, is a 20-year veteran in the defense industry whose last role was as ST Electronics’s CTO for Training & Simulation Systems, and these days he brings his knowledge in image understanding, Simulation systems and advanced artificial intelligence to build his 3D immersive social network startup
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30 JUL 2009 : Singapore Museums into Virtual Space
Visual Factory and NHB take Singapore Museums into Virtual Space.A 3D Cybermuseum with Singapore artefacts as well as artwork from its national collection will be launched online next year.
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22 MAY 2009 : Museums to go Virtual with Collections
An Online museum with Singapore artefacts from the national collection will be launched next year.
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05 JUL 2009 : sgEntrepreneurs interview Visual Factory's CEO
Formerly the CTO of ST Electronics (Training and Simulation Systems), Ilan Ofek founded Visual Factory back in late 2007 to help companies deploy virtual communities in 3D. Today, Visual Factory specializes in virtual museums and exhibitions and has a team of about 11. We speak to Ilan to find out more about Visual Factory.
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17 June 2009: Number of "Social Networkers" on the Rise
He New York-based Conference Board has delivered its assessment of social media and social networks, a study which has led the group to attest to the "exploding popularity" and the broad embracing of social networks across all generations. Among the findings from the Conference Board are the following: (*)43% percent of the online community now uses social networking sites, including Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn. This is up from 27% a year
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17 June 2009: Virtual Worlds Growth to Skyrocket
Market research firm Strategy Analytics today released its forecast for growth within the virtual worlds sector and to say it sees growth would be an understatement. Overall, the firm said it sees the global population of virtual world users growing from 186 million today to almost 640 million by 2015 -- that\'s almost one hundred million new players a year, a nearly 25 percent compounded annual growth rate. The fastest growing demographic is kid
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27 January 2009: The monthly meeting of the Israeli Virtual Worlds Forum -- will focus on platforms for virtual worlds
Review of one platform the creation of one of our members Ilan Ofek from the Visual Factory based in Singapore. We will hear, see, and get to feel their new system.
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IDM Captures the Imagination of Companies
15 projects ranging from transport to heritage planning spur breakthrough in Singapore's IDM sector
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Singapore's MDA doles out $8.1 million in digital funding
The Call has attracted participation from all levels of the industry including start-ups, local Small Medium Enterprises, and Multi-National Companies
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20-June, 2008
News and Notes from BroadcastAsia2008
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18-Nov
Singapore News
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SIGGRAPH 2008
SIGGRAPH 2008 is evolving along with the computer graphics and interactive techniques community
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A 'Virtual' Escape From Economic Pain
The Dow plummeted below 9,000 points to a five-year low Thursday
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Woman Jailed for Murdering Avatar
A 43-year-old Tokyo woman was jailed for murdering her virtual ex-husband's avatar
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June 17, 2008
Visual Factory participates in Broadcast Asia 2008
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October 31, 200
Co-Space Projects. New Explorations in Immersive 3D Virtual / Digital Media
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October 31, 2008
The IDM R&D Programme Office recently announced the selection of 15 projects on the concept of Co-Space
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Visual Factory revolutionizes the way the world builds and interacts using 3D immersive technologies.

The Company’s technologies and software products redefine online business, entertainment, and social networks’ person-to-person communication by setting new standards for creation of virtual worlds, and providing means for seamless interactions with anyone, anywhere, and anytime.