The V-City system

The V-City system is an unprecedented and seamless integrated tool suite enabling the rapid and automatic reconstruction of massive and detailed urban environments as well as their interactive exploitation for high-performance interactive applications in a wide range of domain ranging from 2D/3D GIS, cartography, cultural heritage, urban planning, tourism, or more critical uses such as crisis management. The V-City system integrates the following products while offering intuitive interoperability means. If you are interested in the V-City complete system, please contact the V-City office at DIGINEXT.

V-City Builder

The V-City Builder is now commercially available as ESRI's CityEngine system. Integrating Katholieke Universiteit Leuven's algorithms, the Builder automatically reconstructs large-scale 3D urban environments with high quality from input cadastral data, BLOM's aerial oblique images and ground pictures. First, data from multiple input sources is processed and a textured mass model is generated for each building. Second, topological and semantic information is automatically extracted and put into a compact procedural representation of the facades.

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V-City Explorer

The V-City Explorer is the next-generation globe viewer commercially available as VirtualGeo³, a product of DIGINEXT offering unprecedented rendering capabilities for 2D/3D cartographic application. It can display massive and extremely detailed urban environments, seamlessly integrated into the 3D landscape. Thanks to the BlockMap technology, developed expressly for this project by CNR and CRS4, the V-City Explorer can navigate through massive cities, complete with picture-perfect facades and architectural details, at breakneck speeds.

With the V-City Explorer, you can fly through a city in 3D, experiencing it in unprecedented detail, and visualising the city evolution along the time. The Explorer can even take you inside buildings, where you can discover the same hallways, rooms, and furniture that existed or still exists in real life!

The Explorer is a powerful tool for architects, historians, land planners, and other professionals. It includes sophisticated querying, analysis, or measurement tools. Professionals can analyze virtual cities with precision to draw accurate conclusions without having to leave the tool to consult other sources.

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V-City Table

The V-City Map Table is a revolutionnary multitouch, multiuser, stereoscopic device marketed by Immersion under the iLight brand. It allows both the 3D visualization and interaction with the geospatial environment displayed by the V-City Explorer. It copes with specific constraints such as multiview stereoscopic rendering, natural manipulation and edition of the content, and provides collaborative visualization capabilities. Two technologies, namely immersive 3D visualization and multitouch tactile surfaces, have been brought together for the first time to create this amazing device.

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