Civil Engineer's Forum-FORUM8 News Release
January 11, 2019
FORUM8 Co., Ltd.
FORUM8 run a booth at the world biggest technology trade show CES (Las Vegas) for the first time
- Announce and exhibit VR-NEXT project -

FORUM8 Co., Ltd. (2-15-1 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo. President Yuji Ito. URL: http://www.forum8.co.jp/english/) exhibits for the first time at the world's largest technology trade show CES held from January 8 to 11, 2019 at Las Vegas Convention Center.

CES is an annual trade show organized by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA).
This trade show of international consumer technology business has been held in Las Vegas, Nevada since 1967 and played an important role where next-generation innovations are released for 50 years. These days, a wide variety of state-of-the-art technologies including autonomous driving are introduced in this event.

At FORUM8 booth, we exhibit simulators using 3D real-time UC-win/Road, VR/AR linked system, VR gaming development, embedded system development under the theme of "VR Design Studio UC-win/Road -VR/AR/MR, IoT and Gaming Solutions by FORUM8-". In addition, we announced a new project VR-NEXT and its functions such as the centralization of information management by GIS function and the Physical Base Rendering (PBR) realizing high-precise VR simulation with realistic texture and light.

VR-NEXT planned to be released soon has a cloud service that can store large VR space data, design and drawing data, measuring data. In addition, correspondence to property data, enhancement of data edit function, linkage with other VR devices, and AR function will be provided.

▲ FORUM8 booth
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Model courtesy of Karol Miklas(sketchfab.com/karolmiklas)
▲ VR-NEXT rendering engine : supporting PBR

[CES overview]
Period: Tue. Jan 8 - Fri. Jan 11, 2019
Venue: Las Vegas Convention Center
FORUM8 booth: South Hall 1 booth 22022
Official web site: https://www.ces.tech/

[Related information]
Contents at FORUM8 booth
http://www.forum8.co.jp/fair/fair02.htm#ces
VR-NEXT Client application (Japanese, Up&Coming '19 New Year issue)
http://www.forum8.co.jp/topic/up124-seihin03.htm
VR-NEXT Rendering engine: supporting PBR (Japanese, Up&Coming '19 New Year issue)
http://www.forum8.co.jp/topic/up124-seihin04.htm

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