Implementing 3D (Part 3)

This is the final post in my series offering advice about implementing 3D projects in your own setting. If you are in a state of planning, each tip is  an important strategy for implementing a 3D pilot project in a school or university setting.

Tip #3

It’s also important to find and use integrators. In a Future-Talk 3D post long ago, I spoke about the vital role of integrators in implementing and supporting 3D projects in classroom settings.

An integrator is a company that can help ‘integrate’ the disparate pieces involved classroom 3D projects, whether at the K-12 or university level. An integrator can help identify the needed hardware components, help you identify high-quality 3D glasses, offer sound technical advice, provide helpful technical support, solve problems over the long-haul, and even suggest appropriate 3D content.

In a word, an integrator can help simplify often confusing 3D technologies, making your road toward instructional success much easier and trouble-free. Most importantly, they can prevent you from making costly mistakes. I have recently updated my list of trusted 3D-capable integrators. These folks know their business. Some of them are better at individual PC or small setting installations; others are better at large scale installations, such as classrooms. They know 3D and I know their work. Presented in alphabetic order, they are:

3Dlivesurgery (Europe)

Aulanova (South and Latin America)

AV Rover (international)

Boson (U.S.)

Conference Technologies (U.S. University venues)

Convergent Solution (U.S.)

Eon Reality (international)

Mechdyne (University, military and high-end venues, Intl)
Nvidia (U.S.)

Okulda 3D (Turkey)
Reachout Interactives (International)

XpandD (international)

(If any of my readers also represent an integrator firm with which I am currently unaware, please leave a comment below, listing your web site; and please contact me via email, so that I can update my list.)