Research & Development

Since its foundation in 2002 Bitmanagement has been engaged in several international and national R&D projects.

Apart from industry projects we are actually working in the European funded project "Fine - Free-viewpoint Immersive Networked Experience" and a German BMWI funded project "Inter AR - Augmented Reality online on mobile devices".

Development Project: 3D PIE

Under the name “3D Portrayal Interoperability Experiment (IE)” three German science Institutes, the Hasso Plattner Institut of Potsdam University, the GISscience Institute of University of Heidelberg and the Fraunhofer Instituit for Computer Graphics Research (IGD), have set up a project which is targeted on establishing an uniform infrastructure for portrayal of Geo data by means of testing the interoperability of standardized viewer technologies. Bitmanagement contributes its 3D visualization technology to the entire testing procedure.

The project is arranged by Open Geospatial Consortium
http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/1377

Flyer (english)

Research Project: FINE

The Free-viewpoint Immersive Networked Experience project is focused on developing a novel end-to-end architecture for the creation and delivery of a new form of live media content. FINE will deliver live content to professional and home users which will be able to interact and freely explore a live-action 3D scene. Bitmanagement takes the 3D part which is focused on the creation of truly three dimensional content which could be shown on regular 2D devices, stereoscopic displays and projectors and even on auto-stereoscopic displays or future holographic monitors.

Research Project: Inter AR

Bitmanagement together with Fraunhofer Institute für Grafische Datenverarbeitung (IGD) jointly engages in the German BMWI funded project “InterAR – Augmented Reality in the Internet on mobile devices”. The aim is to develop a mobile platform as a basis for creating application scenarios and products mainly for knowledge transfer. Bitmanagement contributes to the project a scalable and mobile 3D-viewer for commercial and in mass markets available devices (e.g. iPhone-3G, HTC Smartphone, and others).


Funded: Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie aufgrund eines Beschlusses des Deutschen Bundetages

Development Project : iDYNamicTV

Bitmanagement is part of a larger Project of Telecom Italia. It is focused on Inter-tainment on the Web, which is a new paradign. The aim is to create a continuum between the two media Web and TV, for enabling interaction and to enrich this way the user experience of TV-watching via the set top box developed by Bitmanagement.
Paper (PDF)
Handout (PDF)

Development Project: SpaceTime

Bitmanagement is software partner of the Space Time project. Space Time is a novel search engines Grafical User Interface (GUI) for PC users worldwide. The application is linking to the most popular search engines in the world wide web like Google, Yahoo or to the Video/picture-search e.g. from YouTube, to all Sites in the Web and to countless pictures. Each searching result appears in an own window in the 3D Space for the simple and time saving access. All pictures are also displayed in 3D. Bitmanagement integrated its 3D viewing software and did application specific developments.
www.spacetime.com

Development Project: Earth Viewer

For Bertelsmann one of the world’s leading publishing houses, Bitmanagement has developed an earth viewing application for a comprehensive 3D world atlas for consumer use. From 160 gigabytes of satellite data and maps with different resolutions Bitmanagement has created a fully integrated DVD consumer product with a 3D graphical user interface (GUI). The main item is the optimization tool BS Tiler for fast rendering of height models, vectors and satellite image textures which automatically generates tile structures from terrain models, grid data and vectors for unlimited and smooth flying over landscapes.

Research Project: ICE-CREAM

Bitmanagement was one of 10 partners of the three-year project “ICE CREAM - Interactive Consumption of Entertainment in Consumer Responsive, Engaging & Active Media” which was led by Philips and funded by the European Commission with the goal to investigate how to make compelling experiences for end-users based on the possibilities of integrating technologies for interactive media, such as, DVB-MHP, MPEG-4, and Internet technologies on settop boxes for iTV. Bitmanagement has adapted its interactive, realtime 3D Viewer ‘BS Contact’ needed for live event project applications. Bitmanagement continued the project instead of blaxxun interactive.
www.hitech-projects.com/euprojects/icecream/