Visualize This

Visualize This (VT) is a tiny start-up company specializing in virtual reality and computer visual images. Located in the research jet of a study university, the company was founded by Isaac Trice, a university professor, and staffed with the brightest of his former students. By all accounts the technology is cutting edge. Facilities include a lab of 14 high- terminate computer workstations adjacent to a CAVE (computer-aided virtual environment) and a small office. A conference room and central lobby are divided up with other tenants in the building.Originally the company had partnered with the Swedish firm Salvania to realize virtual environments for medical and industrial heading. Trice and his staff would develop the package for apiece application create a visual database supported with engine room or medical data, and run design sessions for their clients in the CAVE. Salvania provided the capital, generated the clients, and handled the business end of the operations. In its first two years of business, VT completed four projects.With each project, VT advanced its skills in visualization and developed customized tools to help its clients design tangled products. The clients were pleased but did not anticipate repeating the intensive design process for several years. Unfortunately, Salvania was unable to remain solvent and dissolved its union with Visualize This. VT was able to keep its workstations (whose salvage value was low), but gave up its rights to the CAVE and furloughed all but three employees. To stay afloat, VT needed hot clients and a steady stream of income.Trice hit the streets and came back with the pursuance possibilities Designing computer-based training sessions for bank tellers of an international finance institution Conducting computer software certification for the sales staff of a large software marketer Designing virtual reality tours through history for a major museum Developing Web-based virtual models for a womens clothing retailer Creating virtual catalogues in which a customer can enlarge, rotate, and dissect a product online.This isnt what I had in mind for my company, Trice lamented as he shared the be given with his employees. I wanted to be developing the next generation of visualization tools in concert with the brightest minds in industry, not digitizing pictures of products and making them turn around, or teaching people to use software thats not even our experience