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• ​Growth continues as Christchurch 3D software provider opens UK office

  "Our new UK office will allow us to provide timely local training and support to our European Leapfrog customers."

• Geoscience Australia opens up access to spatial data

  Geoscience Australia is embracing international geospatial standards and integrated Web platforms to share spatial data in an open environment. The focus is on interoperability, says the agency’s lead data scientist, Danielle Beaudreau.

• Kiwi firm Wherescape targets expansion and growth

  Home-grown data warehousing specialists, Wherescape, is targeting global expansion, even as it continues work on the product side and changes the way it gains business.

• IN PICTURES: LG unveils cinema 3D video wall in NZ

  LG unveiled a cinema 3D video wall at Hoyts Cinemas at Auckland's Sylvia Park at an exclusive evening function yesterday.

• Adobe to add 3D capability to Flash

  Adobe Systems has started work to bring 3D to its Flash platform, and will preview the technology at the company's upcoming developer conference in October.

• Faith in 3D pays off for Huhu Studios

  Huhu Studios, based at Snells Beach north of Auckland, has gone from producing a local TV series to making animated feature films for American distributor Promenade Pictures — and from employing just eight staff to 60 since its launch in 2000.

• Nextspace aims for $1 billion Kiwi 3D industry

  Nextspace, a 3D visualisation industry consultancy founded by 3D graphics software company Right Hemisphere, has set itself an ambitious goal. The organisation, which officially opened its doors in February, aims to create a $1 billion visual communications industry in New Zealand over the next 10 years.

• Open source 3D printer copies itself

  Based in the Waitakeres, in West Auckland, software developer and artist Vik Olliver is part of a team developing an open-source, self-copying 3D printer. The RepRap (Replicating Rapid-prototyper) printer can replicate and update itself. It can print its own parts, including updates, says Olliver, who is one of the core members of the RepRap team.

• Toybox: SketchUp Pro 6 for professional modellers

  Google's SketchUp Pro 6 is an enhanced version of its free SketchUp 6 program. The free version features the application's powerful 3-D functionality, while the pro version adds two main features necessary for professional modellers.

• New-generation online stage moves cautiously into 3D

  Cyberformance has gone three-dimensional — well two-and-a-half dimensional.

• Conferencing on steroids connects NZ universities

  An advanced videoconference system that combines multiple video streams to create a virtual workplace is now being used by New Zealand’s major universities.

• Vendor upgrades brainy search app

  Imagine being able to find a piece of obscure information on your hard drive quickly instead of having to remember where you saved it.

• Wellington visual interface start-up readies push into business

  A passion for creating 3D content made Tomer Sagi take the big leap to becoming self-employed in 2005. He left his job as a software architect at NZ Post to work full-time on building a visual user interface (VUI) software platform. Then, soon after starting up his company Chaos Dimention, Sagi moved into Wellington’s business incubator, Creative HQ.

• Visualisation a focus for innovation finalists

  The finalists in the Innovative Use of ICT category of the Computerworld Excellence Awards have delivered operations software for emergency services, visualisation of computational biology data and a 3D interactive training environment.

• Right Hemisphere wins military honours

  Right Hemisphere has won the top slot in the “up and coming” category in the US Military Training Technology magazine’s annual awards for technology contributions to the military training community — for the third year running.