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VRED Essentials provides realtime raytracing

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 | Posted by Matt McCorkell

PI-VR announced a new version of its VRED real time ray tracing tool. Similar in purpose to VRED Professional and Photo, VRED Essentials is ideal for those looking to speed up their working process in 3D visualization.

Making use of the VRED Render Engine, Essentials features real time global illumination and raytracing, adaptive antialiasing, an extensive database of photorealistic materials and shaders, as well as  backplate and HDR support.  For those worried about compatibility Essentials allows users to  bring in their Maya, FBX and Rhino data formats. Users can view and adjust their lighting setups, reflections and refractions interactively.  VRED Essentials also includes real world camera options, 3D motion blur, depth of field, and a sophisticated Animation module.

For more info check out www.pi-vr.de

VRED Essentials will be available on PI-VR’s Website in February 2010 starting at a price of 2.299,00 €.

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  • http://www.pi-vr.de Matthias Stiller

    VRED Essentials does not only provide a fast and powerful realtime raytracing engine for images and movies as well as a powerful and easy to use material system but also has the tools for a fast workflow. The full scenegraph structure can be edited, subparts can easily be transformed with a 3D transform manipulator.

  • http://www.pi-vr.de Matthias Stiller

    Release date of the software will be mid/end of next week.

  • Michael

    Sorry Matthias but several recent jobs your company simply and totally messed up – I`ll prove that as soon as the NDAs expire.

  • http://www.pi-vr.de Matthias Stiller

    Sorry Michael, that is really funny. Congratulations to the first FUD attempt. You may have been informed wrong but we are only a software company writing and selling software and don’t do ANY jobs that 3D agencies do.

  • http://www.emregoren.net Emre Goren

    is that better than RTT ?

  • http://www.pi-vr.de Matthias Stiller

    I think both companies are quite different in their business approaches. We are a pure software company that focuses producing software that is stable, easy to use, produces high quality imagery for interactive sessions or offline rendering. We also offer consulting, but only to advise our customers how to use our software, optimize their workflows or simply to show them why using our software could be beneficial to them.

    We do not offer image production or data preparation services since this would put us in direct competition with our customers (3D agencies).

    From the software you cannot compare RTT Deltagen with VRED Essentials, a fair comparison would be to compare RTT Deltagen to our VRED Professional Solution.

    Recent findings of our customers have shown that our software has quite a lot of advantages:
    - quality of output (OpenGL and raytracing)
    - speed of output (OpenGL and raytracing)
    - workflow much much faster and intuitive (dataprep, materials, animation)
    - stability (obviously a major issue)
    - scalability (VRED copes easily with very huge datasets, more than 500 million polygons and still smooth as silk. The dataset used 50GB main memory, so with todays high end workstations allowing up to 256GB you should be in the position to toss around models with 2 billion polygons in real time)
    - price

    VRED Essentials is a small version of VRED Professional that is a 100% raytracing solution. It is powered by the same powerful raytracing engine, and allows to produce images with the very same quality (see our website in the galery – VRED pure – all these images are 100% produced with our software – NO photoshopping afterwards). You can find a feature list on our website to see the difference to our other products.

    I would be happy if you take my statements with a grain of salt and make your own impression instead. Just contact us via our website and ask for a test license.

  • Emre Goren

    We are a company that is working with RTT products and I am pretty happy about your answers , I will apply for a test drive , thank you..

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