3dvia

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3DVIA
Type public
Founded 2007
Headquarters Paris, France and Concord, Massachusetts (June 2007)
Website www.3dvia.com

3DVIA is a brand of Dassault Systemes (NASDAQ: DASTY; Euronext: 13065) that was founded to extend their high-end 3D graphics capabilities to new markets including consumers. The company's stated goal is to democratize the use of 3D technology and establish it as the new media for consumer and professional users.

The company has several product groups that are being assembled under the 3DVIA umbrella.

For consumer markets, the company currently operates a 3D online community and model hosting website located at www.3dvia.com and provides a free modeling application named 3DVIA Shape. Through a partnership with Microsoft, 3DVIA provides a version of this software for users to create models on Microsoft Virtual Earth under the name Virtual earth - 3DVIA.

For the gaming and electronic entertainment industry, the offers a development platform for system integrators, game studios and corporate end-users through its Virtools brand name.

Through a recent acquisition of Seemage, the company has launched the 3DVIA Composer product line that allows non-engineering staff at corporations to create 3D technical documentation.

In a partnership with the Publicis Groupe, 3DVIA has launched 3Dswym.com as a way for fortune 1000 marketers to co-create new products and services with their consumers using 3DVIA technologies.

3DVIA MP a comprehensive development platform with a realistic real-time rendering engine significantly improve the game development process by quickly bringing ideas into reality and aiding developers in producing high-end, 3D multiplatform experiences.

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