Alinea has enjoyed working with BAE Land systems since its inception over three years ago. Recognised for its specialty in simulation and virtual reality development, Alinea showcased its latest products and tool sets to BAE, adding to the development of virtual training material for its Trojan armoured engineering tank. Particular interest was shown in Alinea's new Powerpoint virtual reality multi User product.

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Alinea spent 1 week in Japan hosted by Fujifilm for a design briefing on a second stage on-line virtual reality application for the print industry. Clearly it was a wonderful opportunity for Alinea to see a new country but also it was a great education to see and operate within a new business culture. Not only did the trip strengthen Alinea's ties with the Fujifilm corporation, but also demonstrated ways of improving the planning and development of a project through operating with their unique business disciplines.

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The bi-annual European print industry exhibition was the launch pad for Fujifilm's second phase presentation of their virtual brochure visualising software. Alinea used their prototyping solutions to create a simulated piece of software, where to all intent and purposes, the User felt they were test driving the real thing. This platform was ideal for creating a low cost solution to garner industry requirements for the second phase developments.

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Following the success of Alinea's tailored online content management system 'Asset and Presentation Manager' for Fujifilm Graphic Systems UK Ltd, Alinea has launched the new European and part international version covering over 24 countries. This system is now the backbone of the overall marketing communications channel throughout Graphic Systems Europe with other countries and distributors sharing product content and material on-line.

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A change of image was required for a major international bank, and they chose Alinea's online 3D virtual environment to achieve this. As an investment bank, their profile customers are young entrepreneurs and so they have chosen to deliver their 2009 AGM web content through an interactive simulation where a visitor can browse around a virtual exhibition space to access all their downloadable content and will be augmented with additional third party exhibitors buying and exhibiting in their virtual real estate.

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Our real world physics Trojan armoured tank simulation is displayed at the DSEi defence Expo. The simulated deployment arm for the vehicles' facine unit (like a JCB digger arm) allowed visitors to try out the extremely difficult task of picking up a half ton pile of connected pipes from the rear of the vehicle and drop them into a whole in the ground. Sounds easy, but this simulator was designed to save hours of training time on a very expensive real world vehicle.

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Drawn from a pool of new and innovative company's across the country, Alinea was one of 4 finalists chosen to present to hundreds of business men and investors at Seeda's innovation award event.

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Alinea takes up new office space based on the Open University campus, benefiting from purpose built meeting facilities and ample parking.

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After just one year of delivering multimedia solutions and creative content for Fujifilm Graphic Systems UK, Alinea is chosen as the preferred supplier for the entire Fujifilm Graphic Systems stand at one of the most important events in the print industry calendar, Ipex, held every for 4 years in Birmingham attracting interest throughout the world. Not only did Alinea produce nearly all of their interactive and animated presentation material, but also created a bespoke presentation management software application for the event. One of the contributory factors for Fujifilm choosing Alinea was the knowledge that Alinea would be on site 24/7 not only making sure their own products were functioning well, but also pitching in with any other computing based issues as part of the overall Fujifilm team.

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Winning Fujifilm Graphic Systems confidence as a new company was a hard battle, and they were up against some much larger players. The factor that won through was not their ever present enthusiasm for technology and ideas outside of the box, but their commitment to their customer. Alinea's customer said it was the fact that he was able to work directly with the people who actually did the work and not be passed through a third party account executive who had no concept of the technology or processes involved that confirmed their choice of provider.

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BAE continue to extend their e-learning fault diagnosis package with Alinea. Following the successful delivery of phase 1 3D virtual reality Trojan tank modules, Alinea has been commissioned to produce three further 3D modules covering engineering fault diagnosis simulation and testing.

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A purchase from BAE brings about the inception of Alinea. From the history and technological credentials of the directors of Alinea, BAE proposed a requirement for 3D virtual reality CD-Rom based tank simulation to augment their fault diagnosis training program. Working with instructional designers and technical experts, and a good deal of time on the factory floor, Alinea created the virtual reality functionality and modeling for these huge armoured vehicles, and integrated it into conventional e-learning media software, where the Users progress and performance were automatically tracked and corrected.

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i-comworld™ provides a new marketing channel through a perpetual on-line exhibition or on-line company event, where visitors or colleagues can visit from all parts of the world over the internet, without all the logistical problems and overheads normally associated with such shows.

Click here to see more and visit www.i-comworld.com

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ChillParc™ has been created to serve young people who enjoy socialising through media such as MSN, Facebook, Bebo etc. ChillParc™ provides a little 'downtime' from the frantic chat messaging where friends can improvise a quick game of football, or just wander around the Parc environment and mess about.

The current Beta version disables the actual chat mechanism (MSN or any other chat program can be used in conjunction) currently for child protection data reasons. This is very much an experimental project for us and we look forward to developing it further.

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