News/Events New Agreement with Beijing Hong Zilan Art Center
Early Bird:
Visual Factory will create the next generation 3D immersive plug in to enhance the users' experiance surfing China Art 114 website. Visual Factory signed a new agreement with Beijing Hong Zilan Art Center to provide the new plug, RSA3DFE(c) as a base to its online 3D art galleries offering for the global market. The new plug will support all the spectrum of standard web-browsers and will enable web users to enjoy highly optimized 3D graphics for online art.
The offcial announcement will take place during August 2010

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CEO Visual Factory sharing with MICA Ag Minister Lui Tuck Yew-Part I
YouTube: CEO Visual Factory sharing Cybermuseum features to MICA Ag Minister Lui Tuck Yew & other VIPs Part 1

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CEO Visual Factory sharing with MICA Ag Minister Lui Tuck Yew - Part II
CEO Visual Factory sharing Cybermuseum features to MICA Ag Minister Lui Tuck Yew & other VIPs - Part II

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YouTube: Cybermuseum R Us Competition 2009 Winning Cybermuseum galleries
YouTube Cybermuseum R Us Competition 2009 Winning Cybermuseum galleries

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YouTube: Cybermuseum launch event 9 April 2010
YouTube movie for the Cybermuseum launch event on 9 April 2010

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SINGAPORE’S HERITAGE AND MUSEUMS GO VIRTUAL WITH A PACKAGE OF ONLINE INITIATIVES
Working with the NHB, Visual Factory has created virtual galleries showcasing iconic artefacts from six museums, Asian Civilisations Museum, Memories at Old Ford Factory, National Museum of Singapore, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Philatelic Museum and Reflections at Bukit Chandu.  Other institutions and organisations such as the Cape of Good Hope Art Gallery, Grassroots Heritage Centre, Nanyang Technological University Art & Heritage Museum and National Community Leadership Institute, as well as other government agencies have also ‘gone virtual’.

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博物馆走向虚拟　通过网上游戏进入“淡马锡”3D世界

六个博物馆包括国家博物馆、亚洲文明博物馆、新加坡美术馆、新加坡集邮馆、鸦片山战役纪念馆和旧福特车厂资鉴馆。

Visual Factory业务经理雷兆良说，上网参观博物馆是免费的，不过想利用这套软件设立自己的虚拟博物馆，收费从3000元起。到目前为止，已有七个政府机构利用这一平台设立虚拟展馆，另外还有一家画廊，一间大学博物馆和一个基层组织也这么做。想上网，网址是www.cybermuseum.sg。


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化作avatar逛本地博物馆

喜欢逛博物馆的朋友，现在能通过一站式的平台museum-hop，穿梭于本地6家博物馆，欣赏每家馆藏精华。

为加强tech-savvy一族，尤其是年轻人对新加坡文化遗产的兴趣，国家文物局（NHB）与私人企业合作，推出了虚拟博物馆 “Cybermuseum”。

新闻、通讯及艺术部代部长吕德耀今天将为Cybermuseum主持推介仪式。


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Mr Lui Tuck Yew, Acting Minister for MICA
Singaporeans can view treasures housed at our national museums in specially created three-dimensional (3D) virtual galleries, tour past exhibitions, be enchanted by 14th Century Singapore, and surf the web during their visit to the museums.
 

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.