Weve got things started. Roomware and interactive rooms and spaces are no longer the realm of visionaries. Our previous newsletters in November and January already provided details of how these innovations are not only feasible but have already become viable realities. For interactive conference rooms, locally and globally networked teamwork, intelligent learning environments and innovative customer advice and consulting.
This oresee newsletter focuses on some very interesting projects and events as have taken place in the first months of the year.
Roomware projects
INTECO interactive exhibition stand marries real with virtual
oresee, working in cooperation with the architecture office of Bothe/Richter/Teherani (BRT), our software partner MACINA and other service providers, like model building specialists Werk5 of Berlin and exhibition stand builders Design Productions GmbH, put together a very large scale project. Working on a commission for Inteco, one of the largest real estate companies in Russia, the objective was to draft a concept and build an exhibition stand for Europe's key property fair, the MIPIM in Cannes. oresee took on the role of coordinating the individual jobs and also liasing with the customer. We think the outcome says much of our skills and competence in handling comprehensive projects of this type. Overall, several InterWall® and InteracTable® were perfectly integrated in the fair stand designed by Hadi Teherani. Mrs Jelena Baturina, president of the Inteco Group and wife of Moscow's mayor, Jurij Luschkow, was very pleased with the results.
InteracTable and several InterWall perfectly integrated in the stand concept. Another VIP stand (picture on right) with InteracTable and interactive meeting zone.
Perhaps one of the most interesting aspects of the concept was the linking of genuine architects' models with digital content. Whereas a more conventional realisation at fairs is to bombard visitors with plasma displays and flickering film clips, our efforts gave guests the chance to experience Inteco architecture models interactively for the first time. With the illuminated model visible through a glass plate, the screen allowed the interactive selection and viewing of appropriate contents. The lighting of the model could also be actively adjusted and altered in order to, for example, illustrate all the office space in the project as a whole. Simply clicking on a particular button with the stylus caused the relevant areas to be illuminated in a different colour.
Omniyat sells properties on an InteracTable
As previously reported in our last newsletter, oresee has collaborated with software partner MACINA to come up with a comprehensive solution to enable professional real estate sales for Omniyat properties (a new Almasa Holding subsidiary). The five InteracTable deployed by Omniyat are used not only for the sale of properties in interactive showrooms but, as demonstrated here, are also employed at exhibitions and fairs.
Omniyat demonstrates real estate to interested customers from the Middle East.
The software developed specifically for the InteracTable means that potential customers can enjoy the benefits of interaction to experience their new property themselves, requesting and viewing information about the building and its environment according to their own wishes.
Omniyat uses an intelligent database link to quickly and straightforwardly insert and update property information. The networking of the five InteracTable means it is also possible for clients to view all available properties together with information as to availability irrespective of their actual location.
Interactive InteracTable applications in the real estate industry
On several occasions in the past, we have reported about interactive showrooms and fair concepts for the property industry (see above). The MIPIM in Cannes provided the suitable platform for our customer EURODOMUS (Italy) to launch a new InteracTable application specifically conceptualised and realised by oresee in collaboration with MACINA. The screenshots which follow give an impression of how this kind of InteracTable application can look. Ultimately, the best way of experiencing and understanding this innovation is actually to try it out yourself. This is an open invitation to do so. 
Navigation element
Entry card (Google Earth integrated)
Stepless zooming
Interactive information display
Display of infrastructure data, text navigation on left
The movable navigation panel provides detailed information
Another detail view with status display
Illustration of apartment types via filter
InterWall and CommBoard® successfully introduced into market by oresee
Wilkhahn Handelsgesellschaft mbH of Vienna opened its Communications Factory on 9 March 2006. The focal point of the presentations in the rooms of a former factory comprises innovative interior design solutions. Obviously, oresee´s InterWall and NoTable® are key parts of the showcase.
InterWall at the Communications Factory in Vienna
One more InterWall was sold to Wilkhahn Asia Pacific, destined for Australia, where it will soon be active in the Sidney showroom. A design office in Spain has also started working with its own InterWall. A mobile CommBoard was delivered to Selux AG, which intends to use it at fairs (Light+Building) as well as for internal conferences and customer meetings.
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