Design Mill Receives Intel Top Innovator of 2016 Award
Design Mill, Inc. has been awarded the Top Innovator of 2016 from Intel® Software Innovator program. Design Mill President Nathan Greiner and Interactive Software Developer Alex Schuster received the award while attending the Intel Innovators Summit in Seattle on November 16. The award was presented for further work on the Torch™ Interpretive Projector; specifically the continued focus on augmented reality gaming and restaurant solutions. The Torch™ Interpretive Projector has been demonstrated at numerous events this past year (GDC, AWE, SxSW, CES, and more) and has captured the interest of many fellow developers, businesses, and the press gaining it the top spot among Intel’s innovators. Motherboard Vice featured an article on the Torch™ arcade gaming capabilities in May 2016. Combining a projector, the Intel® RealSense™ R200 depth sensing camera and Intel® Nuc with sensors, gateways, games, point of sale software, and payment methods has created efficient and engaging solutions for both customer and business operations alike. This is the second consecutive award for Design Mill; they were also awarded the Top Innovator in 2015. CEO Nathan Greiner says, “Being a part of the Intel Innovator Program is an excellent way for us to incubate some really cutting-edge ideas and present them to the world with the help of Intel. It’s an honor to take the top award again this year and we look forward to continued success in the program.” Read more about the Intel Top Innovators of 2016 here: https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2016/12/07/top-innovators-for-2016?utm_source=LinkedIn Learn more about The Torch™ Interpretive Projector here: www.experiencetorch.com ### Design Mill, Inc. is a strategic systems integrator delivering pioneering solutions for industry leading organizations and the Department of Defense to transform integration of cutting edge interactive hardware and software through innovative design, development, and processes. Focusing on next-generation initiatives for virtual reality and augmented reality, Design Mill enables clients to unlock revolutionary customer engagement approaches and untapped growth strategies to
3D Laser scanning + Virtual Reality = Enhanced Situational Awareness
Design Mill, Inc., a pioneering systems integrator and visualization innovator announces the launch of DMI VR, a new virtual reality hardware solution designed to provide an immersive and collaborative virtual reality experience. DMI VR kits will include a VR headset, smartphone, and Bluetooth remote controller. In addition to hardware Design Mill plans to offer custom software development and integration services to create or transition existing content and systems into the virtual space. Capable of integrating with multiple capture devices including laser scanners, 360 degree cameras, and various picture and video capture devices, DMI VR can also achieve multiple output displays to VR headsets and tablets. Design Mill expects integration will be widespread with industries at the forefront to include real estate, education, defense, construction. Slated for release first is an DMI VR integration with Leica Geosystems. Design Mill has joined Leica’s Geosystems Partner Network to take advantage of their SDKs and harness the power of Leica TruView Global in Design Mill’s new VR solution for point cloud data. The Leica Geosystems ScanStation is a professional-grade laser scanner that can operate in harsh environments to rapidly and accurately capture any kind of environment in rich 3D with amazing fidelity. When viewed with DMI’s VR system, TruView Global data can be experienced by an entire network of web connected users who will virtually experience the scene in 3D as if they were there. Think “virtual reality Go To Meeting” with SME’s able to conduct immersive briefings while still in the field.
A 3D Camera and a Sandbox Demonstrate Amazing Possibility for Arcade Gameplay
Advances in 3D cameras have made possible new ways to play familiar games. LikeTANKED! , an arcade-style warfare game that uses a sandbox, projector and Intel® RealSense™ camera to create a dynamic terrain users can battle atop. Or Puck Club, an air hockey game that can be projected on any flat surface and controlled with hand gestures. Motherboard spoke with the Intel® Software Innovators behind these projects—Nathan Greiner and Alex Schuster , the President and Interactive Software Developer, respectively, of Design Mill, Inc.—about their work with 3D cameras and what cool applications we might see in the future.
Design Mill To Showcase Torch™ Mixed Reality Gaming at CES 2016
Dubuque, IA, January 4, 2015: Design Mill, Inc., a leading systems integrator and leading innovator using Intel RealSense Technology will demonstrate new mixed reality gaming platform, Torch, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on January 6-9, 2016 in Las Vegas. Torch is comprised of gaming software and compatible hardware developed utilizing Intel RealSense Technology to capture and display dynamic terrain generation and interactive mixed reality games. Tanked!, the first game to be released on the Torch platform, is an arcade-style one-on-one tank battle game that was first unveiled at the Intel Developer Forum in Summer 2015. Tanked! was developed on the foundation of Unity 3D and combines a custom-built sand table, Intel RealSense R200 camera for depth sensing, and a projector to create a game in which players can manipulate the landscape of the game map with their hands. Play begins by building a virtual environment using real world sand as a haptic input device. Once the terrain is modified, a virtual tank is dropped into the environment. The players maneuver their tanks across the dynamically generated terrain using valleys and mountains to their advantage, thus changing their own cannon’s trajectory as well as dodging opponents’ artillery. Repeat play is uniquely based on the topography of the sand that players create each time. An Intel RealSense R200 camera senses the depths of valleys and height of hills in the landscape, which impacts gameplay. The Intel Developer Zone and support from Intel’s Perceptual Computing team, in conjunction with the strong community and support for the Unity 3D gaming engine, provided the tools and resources necessary to develop Torch. Modern game development is a realization of advanced programming and coding coming together to create progressive visualization experiences. A new wave of gaming involves developing additional sensory integration of haptic elements into high-tech virtual environments in a way that
