Southern California’s crop of 3D/virtual interaction companies
The launch this morning of Oblong Industries — a venture-backed company developing gesture-based user interfaces ala The Minority Report — is the latest in what appears to be a string of 3D and virtual interaction-related companies showing up here in Southern California.
Other companies in the area include Total Immersion, which develops technology which allows users to literally interact with virtual objects on screen — which recently relocated its headquarters to Los Angeles– and Irvine-based Eon Reality, which develops 3D software for allowing users to interact with 3D objects and models ala the Star Trek holodeck — including technology it has licensed from Microsoft (Microsoft’s TouchLight”). Eon Reality also has 3D avatar creation technology, which is the focus of Pasadena’s Big Stage Entertainment.
Think that’s it? There’s also RealD, which owns the market for 3D theater projection systems — i.e. Chicken Little, Journey to the Center of the Earth, etc.,Fix8 — which inserts graphics real-time into video camera sessions — and DDD which makes displays and technology related to 3D displays.
