This post is a bit different from our usual articles about 3D and visualization. We recently launched the new website for one of our clients Gold Smart Gold Buyers.
If you are considering selling gold or selling silver, Gold Smart offer a highly professional and friendly service to get top prices for unwanted gold jewellery. They also buy gold and silver bullion in New Zealand – who would have thought outdated jewellery was worth so much?
Click on the above links to visit their website now!
It’s not often you get to meet one of your namesakes… however at a recent e-learning conference held in Auckland, we had the opportunity to meet another ‘Richard Elliott’ working also in the education and training market. When collecting name badges we presumed someone had taken the wrong one by mistake as often happens at conferences – yet, no! It was a fine individual with the same name.
At the e-learning conference Urban Voyage presented the new Heavy Vehicle Dynamics (HVD3) software developed for Tranzqual (Transportation ITO) with Lois Moran and heavy vehicle expert [guru] Yogi Hansen. HVD3 will soon be available for purchase through Tranzqual and the customer feedback has been outstanding. The real-time physics capability developed for this exciting project creates new and dynamic ways to engage with students – making complex ideas simple to understand and experience.
The Education & Training market can now benefit from the application of smart learning tools that have the potential to engage with the “Xbox Generation”. When it comes to understanding dynamic concepts, such as Heavy Vehicle Physics, 3D is highly effective in “showing” exactly what will happen if the truck increases speed by 10kph, change the load configuration or any number of other possible variables. HVD3 is putting the teachers and students in the driver’s seat – look down the side mirror to see the effects of ‘Roll Amplification’, see the smoke coming off the tires under heavy breaking, and literally take control of the vehicle.
It’s also possible to deliver training content across a range of media and mobile devices – from online, offline, iPhone, iPad, Mac and PC. If your training material is based in Flash, our recommendation is to talk with us today and see how you can future-proof your learning tools. Urban Voyage are experts in HTML5, H.264 video and related codecs, and the iPhone SDK (Cocoa, Xcode, Objective-C etc).
The “other” Richard Elliott had this to say in his recent mail-out:
“I saw some exciting development in the use of 3D simulations for training modules for heavy vehicle drivers last week. Not unlike an interactive game but with a very strong educational/ training/safety/ compliance focus. Lot of potential for online learning.Well done to urban voyage in New Zealand (http:// www.urbanvoyage.com] run by a Richard Elliott would you believe (he’s a bit younger than me, but with a name like that he must be good:-)”
Urban Voyage has just been featured in the January 2009 edition of Boat International in an article by Tim Thomas.
Boat International is distributed in 55 countries and is globally recgonised as an authority in its field. “Launched in 1983, Boat International has established itself as the number one magazine for the global superyacht market. Its unrivalled coverage of power and sail yachting is achieved by drawing on the work of the world’s best photographers and yachting journalists.”
Boat International January 2009
Urban Voyage’s Ultimate Interactive System
“‘What’s the biggest time resource for yards, designers and owners?’ Richard Elliott asks me. I draw my gaze from some lavish interior renderings. ‘It’s putting information into design,’ he says. He is showing me a new system which could revolutionsise how owners, yards, engineers and clients interact with design projects, build and systems. Urban Voyage is a young and youthful company based in Auckland with has developed a system, called YachtVIEU.”
“YachtVIEU puts what are often considered dense, disparate and sometimes arcane design materials into the hands of owners, yard staff and crews in a simple, intuitive package that can be accessed from anywhere in the world on any machine. It can’t fail to have an impact on the world of superyachting.”
For the Full 2 page article see the Janurary 2009 edition of Boat International.
Urban Voyage Testimonial
When Bowcrest Marine Ltd. came up with the idea to develop an entirely new concept in Sea Going Multipurpose Vessels we only had a GA Plan to work with. On its own we had little chance to market the concept and no way to bring the project to life.
The guys at URBANVOYAGE had previously worked on another concept project in which we were involved and we were so impressed by what they produced we had no doubt they could help us. However we were not prepared for the end result which simply “blew us away”.
What we gave them was far outside their normal comfort zone of work and totally unlike anything they had worked on before. By working with us to gradually refine the images to create the desired effect they produced a stunning set of images which breathed life and excitement into the whole project. As soon as we saw what these talented guys had produced we knew straight away they had given us the chance to push the whole project forward with a marketing tool that would sell our vessels straight off the drawing board.
We gave them very little time to do the job and they prioritised it and within two weeks from start we had the first images. This was an outstanding achievement by any standards but what followed was even better. With adjustments to colour and detail they created a living breathing vessel which you could almost touch. Better than that they understood exactly what we were trying to convey in our marketing strategy and the result was totally on the mark. However perhaps the most outstanding part of this story is that when all was finished, they presented us with something of a “Special”. To help us further, they produced and multi image presentation which could be made to view the vessel in any angle, any colour and a multitude of different effects to run as moving presentation. We had not asked for this and were not expecting it and for the guys at URBANVOYAGE to do this for us knowing how important it would be goes way beyond Good Customer Relations and on both a personal and professional level I cannot thank them enough.
URBANVOYAGE are dynamic, friendly, exceptionally talented and a real pleasure to work with and Bowcrest Marine Ltd. will hopefully be working with them again in the near future on other projects. We would like in particular to thank Richard Elliott for all the assistance he gave to us to help us realise our dreams to push into uncharted territory. Well done and congratulations on a job VERY WELL done – You guys ARE THE BEST.
URBANVOYAGE has Bowcrest Marine Ltd. Highest Recommendation www.urbanvoyage.com
Tony Charman
Managing Director
Bowcrest Marine Ltd.
