What: Annual dinner meeting sponsored by the New England Chapter of the Society for Information Display. Gregg Favalora (co-founder, CTO, and VP Product) at Actuality Systems, Inc. will discuss and demonstrate the PerspectaTM 3D System.

Attendance limited to about 40 people. Please reserve your seat as early as possible; RSVP instructions below. Guests and non-SID members are always welcome.

When: Tuesday, January 14, 2002

Where: Sheraton Framingham Hotel

6.00 pm - Cocktails (cash bar)
6.30 pm - Dinner $12.00 (SID members $10)
7.15 pm - Chapter business
7.30 pm - Speaker presentation

Menu:
Caesar Salad
Choice of
Chicken Wellington
served with a mushroom duxelle wrapped in a puffed pastry, complimented with a merlot demi glaze
or...
Pacific Grilled Salmon Fillet
served with chive beurre blanc
New York Cheesecake

RSVP to: Tom Rebeschi before January 7 and include your meal preference - (978) 659-9127 - tjrebeschi@mmm.com

Directions to Sheraton Framingham Hotel:
1657 Worcester Road Framingham, MA
(508) 879-7200
From all points take the Mass Pike (I-90) to exit 12, Rt-9. Follow Rt-9 West to the Sheraton entrance.

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TECHNICAL MEETING

New England Chapter

"True, Spatial 3D. Actuality's Perspecta? 3D System: Design and Applications"

Featured Speaker:
Mr. Gregg Favalora
Founder, CTO, and VP Product - Actuality Systems, Inc.

Mr. Favalora will be presenting an overview of his firm's 3D-displaytechnology, Perspecta, which is a combination of software and hardware that generate spatial, 360-degree-viewable, auto-stereoscopic imagery. Applications include medical imaging, MCAD, military visualization, and oil & gas exploration.

The agenda includes a demo of the world's most advanced 3D display; a technical discussion of how it operates (software, hardware, and optics); and a hands-on demonstration of several applications.

The Perspecta display creates a 10"-diameter three-dimensional image withing a large Lexan dome, resulting from the world's record in spatial display resolution of 100 million voxels.

The Perspecta system is a combination of hardware and software. The hardware, known as a "multiplanar volumetric display," creates 3D imagery using persistence of vision. First, proprietary algorithms and an embedded graphics processing engine start with a 3D data set - such as a picture of the human skull - and slice it into 198 radially-disposed planes. Next, using a Texas Instruments DLP(tm) projector at 5,000 frames per second, these images are projected onto a diffusing screen rotating at 730 rpm. The result is a 3D image, refreshed at 24 volumes per second, which is visible 360 degrees around.

Other 3D display technologies use methods such as liquid crystal-based shutter goggles, lenticular displays, or other rotating-screen systems. Actuality's Perspecta platform is the world's highest-fidelity spatial 3D display. Goggles aren't required to see the 3D effect, and it offers full parallax. Furthermore, Perspecta is based on open standards like OpenGL, so it seamlessly integrates into a host of existing applications for molecular modeling and MCAD.

About Our Featured Speaker

Gregg Favalora is co-founder, CTO, and VP Product at Actuality Systems, Inc. Gregg began researching 3D displays in 1988. He graduated from Yale in 1996 with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a master's in engineering sciences from Harvard in 1998. Gregg is a winner of the BFGoodrich / National Inventors Hall of Fame's Collegiate Inventor's Competition, is a $10k winner of the MIT $50k "Entrepreneurship Competition," and is a member of Technology Review magazine's "TR100," a group of 100 of the top technologists under the age of 35. Gregg's research interests include spatial 3D displays, holographic video, and neuromorphic engineering. He holds three patents and has several pending in the fields of 3D display and optical networking.

About Actuality Systems, Inc.

Founded in 1997, Actuality Systems, Inc. designs, engineers, licenses, and sells the world's first Spatial 3D display systems, which have been proven to provide faster and more accurate outcomes in critical defense, medical, and security operations. The PerspectaTM Spatial 3D System displays full-color and -motion images that occupy a volume in space, giving users a 360-degree god's-eye view and simultaneous multi-view collaboration - without goggles. Built on patented technologies, Perspecta Spatial 3D is plug-and-play, displaying all rendering and movement from widely used open-standard 3D applications. Perspecta Spatial 3D has won Product of the Year awards from respected trade and industry publications. Actuality Systems is backed by world-class venture firms and individuals, with offices near Boston. For more information, call 781-229-7812 ext. 190 or visit www.actuality-systems.com.