Visualization Design Institute (VDI)

VDI 3D Game Featured at the 2010 Olympics

Sheridan College, a leader in digital media, has created the first ever real-time auto-stereoscopic 3D game that does not require 3D glasses. The game, called "IC3D", SCAET is a showpiece at the Ontario House Pavilion at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games, and will be used to introduce some of Ontario's most well-known tourist attractions to the world-wide audience in Vancouver. Developed in collaboration with Toronto-based company Spatial
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Visualization Design Institute
Sheridan Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning
1430 Trafalgar Road
Oakville, Ontario
L6L 2L1

Tel.905.845.9430 ext.8700

Fax.905.815.4220

Sheridan's Visualization Design Institute (VDI) is dedicated to innovation in the field of computer visualization specializing in deploying game technologies in 3D environments. VDI does applied research within the Sheridan institute of Technology & Advanced Learning renowned for its high tech, animation environment. VDI creates visionary products and experiences in collaboration with industry and academic partners.

Since its inception in 1999, the Institute's professional team has undertaken more than thirty projects covering an impressive range of sectors including: e-learning, health, bio-tech, municipal infrastructure and all genres of gaming from web 2.0 through 4D environments that integrate 3D scanned objects and cultural artifacts. VDI's current research focuses on customizing game engines and mobile applications to enable movement in and out of 3D environments.