3DVIA’s Fast 3D site has won the 2009 MITX (Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange) award for the Best Use of Video. We are very honored to have competed in the MITX Awards, the largest and most prestigious awards competition in the U.S. for interactive and Web innovations, and must thank Genuine Interactive, our creative agency responsible for the creation of Fast 3D, as well as all the 3DVIA people who helped bring it to life.

Fast 3D was launched at this year’s Game Developer Conference in March to promote the release of 3DVIA Virtools 5, the latest version of our engine for rapid prototyping and development in industrial and gaming applications. The site successfully generated interest in 3DVIA Virtools 5, as well as many of our other products.

Check out the Fast 3D site here!

Screenshot of Fast 3D.

Yay! We won! 3DVIA ( those of us who were in the office at the time of this photo ;) celebrates victory.
Top (left to right): Cliff Medling, Greg Smith, Marc DiGregorio, Kathleen Padden, Dan Ubilla, Emmy Jonassen, JJ Grimaud, Juan del Rio Bottom (left to right): Rodd Halstead, Lynne Wilson, David Laubner, Matt Baron

Photo opp at the MITX Awards with Genuine Interactive.
Mike Maione (GI), Emmy Jonassen, Christian Connolly (GI), David Laubner, Chris Pape (GI)

In case you missed it, or want to see it again, we have some highlights from our booth in the following video, and some important links:

Learn more about 3DVIA’s Publishing Products:

• 3DVIA Virtools – Build Rich 3D Applications Fast
• 3DVIA Composer - 3D Technical Documentation Made Easy
• 3DVIA Shape - Free 3D Modeling for the Rest of Us
• 3DVIA.com - The Top Interactive 3D Community & Model Sharing Database

Learn More about our Presenters:

• “Snow World” by Howard Rose and Ari Hollander:  http://www.firsthand.com
• “RealTime Music Visualization: A study in the Visual Extension of Music” by Matt Bain.
• “SCOPE: an Innovative Augmented Reality Game” by Frantz Lasorne.

As Bertrand Duplat, Virtools founder and CTO for 3DVIA puts it, “3DVIA has taken into consideration studios’ needs when designing and developing games, especially those that work with large development teams in multiple locations.  Our new development engine encompasses the entire development cycle – from importing content to testing and debugging – maximizing publishers’ investments by allowing them to create content once, optimize it, and publish it across multiple platforms.”

If you are in the game development space, you should check out the 3DVIA MP site for all of the details.  Or you can watch this early trailer for the product below. 

The official announcement for 3DVIA MP was released yesterday at this years Game Developers Conference and the reaction has been excellent.