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VISUALIZATION TECHNOLOGY

Gaming technology goes upstream

The gaming industry has become big practical and economical to use, says

Through its development business - bigger than the movie busi- Hufford in the gaming and defense ness, says Gary Hufford, As a result, powerful graphics and head of engineering and design soft- rendering engines—computer software sectors, gaming technology ware frm Aveva’s visualization center of able to simulate the physical properties is being adopted by excellence, based in Cambridge, England. and appearance of objects—are being

He was previously CEO of Global Majic adopted by industries outside defense, various industries,

Software Inc., whose visualization and gaming and science. simulation software was bought by Aveva Within the oil and gas sector, Aveva including oil and gas.

in late 2012. recently launched its Aveva Activity

Elaine Maslin reports.

Global Majic is one of an increasing Visualisation Platform (AVP). It enables number of simulation and visualization the creation and secure distribution of specialists that or are being used by the training simulations, or “applications,” offshore oil and gas industry. which can be remotely accessed and used

Gaming technology is now run on in single and multi-player modes. standard Windows systems, making it The system uses computer-aided more compact and accessible, and more design (CAD) or laser scan data of

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