1. Who/what is Netvibes (as a company and as a product, since they share the name)
2. What are the underlying technologies of Netvibes (06:52)
3. How does Netvibes complement 3DSwYm and Exalead (08:28)
4. How does Netvibes fit in a typical product innovation process (12:05)

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If you would like to see Netvibes in action, you will want to watch this:

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So, what do you think? What should have asked? Feel free to leave a comment.

Ice Dream 3D Experience

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4N Luxury Watch 3D Experience

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Stay tuned as more examples of 3D Experience Platform in action will be coming in soon! In the meantime, let us know which industry or concrete example you would like to see the 3D Experience applied to next

Now stylists can go a step further in their creativity thanks to 3D and virtual worlds. Through the recent launch of FashionLab.

What is FashionLab?

It is not a brand, nor a product, but an innovative approach defined as a “technology incubator”. I am already imagining the question-mark appearing above your head right now… You are asking yourself: “what is a technology incubator”?

Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a biological incubator, like a chemical pipe used to grow and maintain biological cultures!!

It is a business incubator. Like a business program or start-up, it is meant to accelerate the successful development of 3D technology and virtual worlds for the Fashion designers. The goal is to provide the stylists with 3D design, virtual simulation and collaboration tools required to create an entire collection.  This program name was chosen to symbolize the fusion between the fashion designers’ artistic creativity and Dassault Systèmes engineers’ inventiveness.

3 Fashion ambassadors are working closely with the engineers and R&D

Fashion is moving fast, trends are changing all the time and designers have to stay up to date! Stylists always have to make things faster and better. And they need innovative tools to help them bring their ideas to life.

For that matter, FashionLab is working with 3 ambassadors:

• Julien Fournié, founder of the couture house that bears his name, is the ambassador of FashionLab for haute couture.

• Jonathan Riss, artistic director of the JAY AHR House, is the ambassador for haute joaillerie, accessories, embroideries and ready-to-wear.

• François Quentin, a designer of complex luxury watches and founder of 4N, is the haute watchmaking ambassador.

These luxury fashion designers believe that 3D tools can propel fashion to new heights. FashionLab will provide the fashion world with new breakthrough technologies never seen before on the market. Those technologies will improve stylists’ competitive advantage as well as it will build the future of the luxury goods market.

Designers will be given a complete set of tools to create an entire collection. FashionLab will bring them closer to their customers, enabling them to share their knowledge through social networks. And most of all, FashionLab will help them imagine tomorrow’s fashion world. Better and faster.

To Take a Turn on the Catwalk: www.3ds.com/fashionlab

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A week ago we have featured a picture of Superman lifting a helicopter and we have made a little poll to let you guess which company was related to this picture and to Dassault Systèmes’ news.

Most of you have answered well, as more than 80% have found the right answer, which was Bell Helicopter. As they can’t benefit from Superman’s super speed, Bell Helicopter had to make a move to reduce the amount of time it takes to bring a new helicopter to market. In august 2011 the company has deployed the V6 PLM platform to 5,000 users, becoming one of the largest implementation of the V6 platform in North America.

You may have asked yourselves why we have related Superman to this news. It is not just because of him lifting a helicopter it was because one of their product was used in the first Superman movie back in 1978. Back then it was the Bell JetRanger Helicopter that was used to be Daily’s Planet aircraft.

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I’m sure you remember Michel Desjoyeaux project. We blogged about it previously. I thought you will be happy today to know that the virtual visit of the FONCIA 60ft monohull in real-time 3D has been adapted to the MACIF one.

François Gabart, Michel Desjoyeaux co-skipper during the last Barcelona World Race, decided with his sponsor MACIF to build exactly the same 60ft monohull. As Michel, François wanted to invite everyone on board and have them visit the interior of his boat.

Don’t wait! Run at the Salon Nautique in Paris, from December 3rd to December 11, and experience, at the MACIF stand (Hall 1 – Allée AB – Stand 71) an immersive and pedagogical visit of the MACIF 60ft monohull!

You will be able to “Fly” over the boat in a helicopter, sit down in the living area at the control screens, crawl through the sail locker and experience different weather conditions!

Try the storm mode and let me know how you feel about it!

Cheers,

Agnès

Capturing creativity is a sensual act with decisions taken within micro seconds. Nothing must disturb the magic moment when the ideas flow from brain to the documentation support. For centuries or even back to the stone age designers have relayed on a pencil and a box of color crayons to serve the purpose of documenting their design intent.

I recall the mid ‘90s when I visited at the Opel/GM development center in Rüsselsheim, Germany, for a business project. Open space offices were hung with impressive hand-made sketches and drawings of vehicles on transparent paper, thus manifesting the team’s creative outbursts.

Now a new generation of designers has been raised who are drawing directly on computer screens. And they seem to prefer this approach as their natural way to go about their job. In addition, with a digital input there are some advantages on the down-stream processes: the possibility of applying changes, the effectiveness of re-use and transfer to other media, as well as the ease of enriching content, such as varying colors, further detailing  or adding background for presentations up until photo-realistic rendering.

At the Dassault Systèmes European Customer Conference which took place two weeks ago in Paris we were able to observe what seems to be a breakthrough in this path of development towards a comprehensive approach: Designers now can use CATIA with a pen and tablet device from WACOM to directly draw in 3D.

WACOM has been a partner in our Emerging Technologies Program since last year and has been working with the teams from CATIA and the Design Studio to develop this integrated solution.

With the availability of this functionality the door opens to a closed digital loop from documenting the first idea to developing a product design which is ready to be manufactured.

This sounds like science fiction to you? It still does it to me. But it’s nevertheless real. Have a look at the video:

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Listen to the 3D drawing experience of Julien Fournier, who is using this technology to design Haute Couture:

Up to the creative people of the world to check this out.

Best,
Michael

Back in 1978 the production of the first Superman movie, starring Christopher Reeves, had to choose a helicopter to serve as the Daily Planet aircraft.

So here is my riddle: Can you tell me which company is related to this post?

You can explain your choice in the comment section right here

Passionate. That’s the first word that comes to my mind to describe Caroline. What is she so passionate about, you’ll ask? Support, of course…

That’s why we could not have dreamt of a better person to conclude our series of 3 portraits of support people (the first two were Shirly and Nejib).

Caroline manages a team of experts who handle the requests coming from our customers. She defines support with three words: communication, tenacity and pedagogy.

Needless to say that she loves her job. Just watch the video and you’ll see it by yourself. Her enthusiasm is so catching!

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So, this is it. We’ve come to the end of our series of videos about Dassault Systèmes Customer Support. Hope you’ve enjoyed them and learnt more about our jobs and activities.

Cheers,
Matthias

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Keep 3D-ing,

Rich

Do you recall one of Saturday Night Fever’s best songs called “Stayin’ Alive” and performed by the Bee Gees?

Under most circumstances, you would not keep the beat of this song in your head, but heart specialists have come up with one good reason to remember it: It could save someone’s life. Turns out the hit is very close to 100 beats per minute, a perfect number to maintain the best rhythm for performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, when faced with a person suffering a cardiac arrest.

In order to learn the right reflexes and techniques, Dassault Systèmes and Ilumens have created the Staying Alive 3D Lifelike experience, available at www.stayingalive.fr/en. Playing the witness (in your office, the street or even during a soccer game), you have 4 minutes to react, call emergency services, perform CPR and use a defibrillator. Staying Alive 3D online experience was launched to support the World Heart Day organized by the World Health Organization

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Children already spend a huge amount of time playing games and the trend is not expected to slow down anytime soon. Therefore, why not create a serious experience that still generates emotion, fun and entertainment, and use it to educate, train and inform the general public?

In fact, could games actually make us better? The gamification of extremely serious experiences can enhance the learning curve: learning by doing in a virtual environment involves the process by which game mechanics are added into work or social processes in order to drive user engagement and hook them into further participation.

While only 3% to 4% of people survive from cardiac arrest in France, they are 30% in Seattle, thanks to basic training taught at school and defibrillators being setup in public places, at work or simply in the street next to homes. Indeed, heart attacks mainly happen at home or in the office and in 80% of cases with no medical staff around, which means everyone (including children) need to be trained.

Then, will children teach Adults? With Staying Alive, they will play, save lives in 3D and hopefully, back from school, will teach parents to do the same. By training all of you, we can improve the surviving rate!

Cheers,

Fred Vacher @ fvr(at)3ds.com