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VTV is a technology for viewing 3D environments in realtime on low-cost computing hardware. VTV is an enabling technology which permits a viewer to interactively look around (pan, tilt, roll and zoom) within a still or moving video image.
VTV was created as a next step after our extensive work with traditional realtime 3D renderers. While today's computers are faster than ever before, the drive toward 3D gaming and multimedia has created trade-offs between image quality and speed of display.
Our approach is simple: prerender as much of the environment as possible in advance, and use image warping techniques to offer both higher quality and realtime frame rate at runtime.
VTV lets you prerender full spheres, or 360 degree panoramic cylinders, if the top and bottom of your scene are not required. Gaming and multimedia objects are rendered in real time and displayed against VTV backgrounds. This technique allows you to spend your compute power on the real-time objects, and have beautifully high resolution backgrounds at a very low compute cost.
We believe that image-based rendering, offering high frame rates for arbitrarily complex computer graphics and real world photographic scenes, will play a vital role in meeting quality expectations.
VTV has a wide variety of applications ranging from video gaming to teleconferencing.
They created VTV as a solution to the high-cost and low-resolution worlds that have characterized VR.
Eric Gullichsen
Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder
Eric Gullichsen is the technical force behind Warp Ltd. Prior to founding Warp, Eric co-founded Sense8 Corporation, a company selling realtime 3D graphics software toolkits on a broad variety of workstation and PC platforms. He was the principal designer and programmer for WorldToolKit, Sense8's VR toolkit. Prior to founding Sense8, Eric worked on the software and hardware for the Autodesk Cyberspace project. Before Autodesk, he worked as a consultant to industrial and defense-related laboratories, including the MCC consortium, Boeing, Advanced Decision Systems and several government research labs in Canada. At MCC, he led the programming team which developed PlaneText, a hypertext system for Sun workstations which in 1985 was the first product released by the MCC Software Technology program to its shareholders. He is the author of over 20 publications in the areas of hypertext, logic programming languages, digital logic, neural networks, and VR, and holds an M.Sc. in computer science from the University of British Columbia in Canada on the subject of cryptography.
Susan Wyshynski
Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder
Susan Wyshynski manages day-to-day operations at Warp. Prior to founding Warp, Susan co-founded the Vivid Group, a company that produces and sells attractions based on Mandala¨, its proprietary camera-based interactive virtual reality technology. She joined her partners at Vivid in 1987 and has been instrumental in defining and accessing the market for Mandala technology. The creative and entrepreneurial force behind the Vivid Group, she has produced and installed more than 100 attractions worldwide for such clients as Paramount Pictures, MTV, the Smithsonian, the NHL Hockey Hall of Fame, Tech2000, Cinetropolis, and the Tour of the Universe. Mandala can also be viewed weekly on the Nickelodeon channel's Nick Arcade, an interactive children's television game show. Susan is a published author and accomplished speaker in the fields of VR, multimedia and high tech entertainment.
Warp is also allied with Virtual I/O Inc., the Seattle-based TCI-funded manufacturer of "i-glasses" high quality headmounted display products.
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