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Awards for Globe4D at Laval Virtual 2007

Category: Museums, Information Esthetics, Media Tech, Awards, Design, Festivals, Conferences, C++, Globe4D, School, Projects, Interaction, Science, Programming, Multimedia, General — Rick Companje — 23 April 2007 @ 04:54

Rick and Globe4DWe released a brand new version of Globe4D and presented it at the great Laval Virtual 2007 Conference. This very special event in the west of France attracted over 10.000 people with all kinds of backgrounds: scientists, engineers, museum directors, school teachers, children from all ages, parents and grandparents.

Exhibiting at Laval Virtual gave us the opportunity to test our four dimensional globe on a really big user group. Thousands of people enjoyed playing with Globe4D and learned about the history of the earth. Their happy faces and the feedback we got from them were incredibly useful for us.

Globe4D at Laval 2007, over 10.000 people with all kinds of backgrounds

More good news is that Globe4D received two awards this week and got a special invitation for the ACM SIGGRAPH Conference 2007 in San Diego, California in August. We received one award in the category ‘Education and Virtual Entertainment’ and another one in ‘Emerging Technologies’.

The Globe4D team would like to thank Laval Virtual for the wonderful organization, the Laval School of Tourism for their help and support and all the friendly people we met during this week. It was a great experience!

Globe4D (Pays-Bas) Ce globe terrestre interactif apporte une toute nouvelle dimension à la découverte géographique, à la fois ludique et pédagogique.

Globe4D on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lavalvirtual/
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Emerging Technologies Award for Globe4D at Laval Virtual 2007 (=invitation for ACM SIGGRAPH 2007, San Diego)
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Photo Sébastien Kuntz

Education et Entraînement Award for Globe4D at Laval Virtual 2007
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Photo Sébastien Kuntz

Movie

Danica, Nico and Globe4D
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2 Comments »

  1. Yo congratulations! Another international award. It couldn’t be better!! I’m looking forward to see the pics of “the happy” faces and the new globe!

    see you!

    Comment by Jasper vd S — 23 April 2007 @ 19:53

  2. Hi,
    congratulations for the two awards, you really deserve it ;)
    As I was there to watch you get it, here’s a picture : http://cb.nowan.net/laval2007/content/DSC_0220_large.html

    and here’s a review of the show I wrote :
    http://cb.nowan.net/blog/2007/04/23/laval-virtual-2007/

    cheers
    cb

    Comment by Sébastien "cb" Kuntz — 24 April 2007 @ 21:57

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