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Anthony Steed Professor of Virtual Environments & Computer Graphics Department of Computer Science University College London Gower Street London, WC1E 6BT United Kingdom tel +44 (020) 7679 4435 fax +44 (020) 7387 1397 A.Steed at cs dot ucl dot ac dot uk Room 6.21 Malet Place Engineering Building | ||
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OverviewI do personal consultancy in areas related to 3D graphics, virtual reality, new media, ubiquitous computing and mixed reality. Most of my consultancy has been around system building, though I have experience doing expert witness work, training, IP evaluation and business process evaluation.Details about individual areas of consultancy experience are below. I use the facilities of UCL Consultants to deal with contracts and payments. 3D Graphics and GamesI have a lot of experience in building and designing interactive 3D graphics systems. I have over 10 years in experience in OpenGL and I have developed a broad range of real-time applications that have exercised the full range of functionality of modern graphics cards. This include recent shading languages. Most recent experience is on Windows, though I have extensive experience of Linux and Irix platforms as well. We have particular expertise in rendering and dealing with very large datasets.I have also used a number of other graphics APIs including Performer, Inventor, OpenSG, OpenSceneGraph and Realimation for medium-sized to large projects. I have studied a broad range of such APIs in my research and can advise on a good match to your application requirements. I have a good knowledge of issues of model conversion, and can advise on content production pipelines as well as run-time systems. For previous clients I have done rapid prototyping of skeleton applications for commercial demonstrations. The majority of this work has been for PC-based desktop devices, sometimes with novel display systems. However, recently, together with external collaborators I have been working with mobile devices, including iPhone and Android. In 2006-2007 I spent six months on secondment to Electronic Arts in Guildford. I worked on a team working on PS3 and XBox 360 development, and I had a hands-on role with the tools team, building parts of the production pipeline for a game. Virtual RealityAt UCL we have a state-of-the-art CAVE-like system. The facility is available for commercial use and we have built a number of demonstrations for client companies. Typical uses are for presentations or as a tool for engineering design and review. For example, one company wanted us to visualise a yacht design for an important client. Another wanted us to prototype a visualisation of a speculative product in one of its contexts of use. Demonstrations usually involve us taking client data in a number of formats and converting this to run on the CAVE. We can support a number of different run-time environments including some popular game engines.Services we can provide are development of applications, and support to run these demonstrations. We can if required, do demonstrations of collaborative working with other sites. The CAVE-like system is available to rent. We can also advise on the construction and installation of immersive facilities. We can not purchase, install and maintain permanent facilities, but we can specify and install low-cost temporary facilities, with or without the responsibility for software. TrainingIn an academic capacity, I have delivered short courses on 3D graphics, visibility analysis, 3D interfaces and networked games and virtual environments. I have authored and delivered a few courses on 3D graphics for presentation directly to industry. The lengths are flexible, and there are two variants of the course. The first variant targets general non-technical employees. The aim is a general overview of the graphics pipeline, the status of 3D graphics and likely development. The second variant targets general technical employees unfamiliar with graphics. The aim is to provide an overview of the issues in graphics pipelines so that the engineers could liaise more efficiently with the specialist graphics teams.OtherI have been involved in two start up ventures as a technology lead and I can advise those seeking to do the same, or parties wanting to evaluate such ventures.From 2002-2010 I was either a Business Fellow or a Special Interest Group Leader for the London Technology Network. The network supports a range of knowledge transfer activities between industry and academia. |
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