9 Apr 2010

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。
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9 Apr 2010

Mr Lui Tuck Yew, Acting Minister for MICA

SINGAPORE’S HERITAGE AND MUSEUMS GO VIRTUAL WITH A PACKAGE OF ONLINE INITIATIVES
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1 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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1 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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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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6 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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5 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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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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