IRVINE, Calif., February 6, 2013 – EON Reality, the world’s leading interactive 3D solutions provider for business and education, today announced that EON Reality Rus, an EON Reality subsidiary, has been awarded membership in Skolkovo Innovation Centre in the area of Information Technologies Cluster. Their mission is to create an effective ecosystem model for the development and commercialization of innovations in information technology in Russia.
Strategic computer technologies and software are included in the list of priorities that are supported by the Skolkovo Innovation Centre, where the goal is to concentrate international intellectual capital to stimulate the development of break-through projects and technologies. Participants of Skolkovo are provided with all assistance necessary for development. The Skolkovo Foundation and its partners transform the infrastructure, resources, and other possibilities of the Centre into effective services for companies that are project participants.
EON Reality Rus was recently established as the official subsidiary of EON Reality in Russia and was created with support of local partners with the goal to create a regional hub for the Russian Federation, consisting of an Interactive Digital Centre and Entrepreneur School as a base for national roll out.
“EON Reality’s technologies have great potential of application and development in Russia. We believe that the opportunities that Skolkovo Innovation Center gives us and the intellectual potential of Russian specialists in IT technology will allow us to use, develop, and create a new dimension of EON Reality’s technologies not only for Russia, but also for world,” said Vladimir Naroditskiy and Vladimir Rezer, EON Reality’s partner and co-founders of EON Reality Rus.
About Skolkovo
The Skolkovo Innovation Center is a planned high technology business area being built at Skolkovo near Moscow, Russia. The site aims to be a highly modern complex created to encourage science and technology companies. The Skolkovo Innovation Center is tasked with concentrating intellectual capital and encouraging the development of various technologies. As corporations and individuals become “residents” of the city, proposed projects and ideas receive financial assistance. Skolkovo was announced on 12 November 2009 by then Russian president Dmitry Medvedev. The complex is headed by Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg and co-chaired by former Intel CEO Craig Barrett. www.sk.ru
About EON Reality
EON Reality, Inc. is the world’s leading interactive 3D visual content management and Virtual Realitysoftware provider. EON Reality provides state-of-the-art 3D display technology for immersive and stereoscopic viewing, from portable tablet PCs and glass free stereo display systems to curved-screen and immersive rooms consisting of multi-channel projection walls. The technology foundation for developing interactive digital content includes importing the most common 3D animation formats into EON’s authoring software and creating modules and applications that can be viewed on various display systems. EON’s technology solutions enable all organizations to more effectively visually communicate, collaborate and accelerate knowledge transfer.
Industry leaders, including Atlas Copco, Bechtel, Boeing, Bombardier, Hon, Intel, Lexus, Lufthansa -Teknik, Lowell Manufacturing, Peterbilt, Samsung, Siemens Medical, Suzuki, Tobyhanna Army Depot, Toyota and Whirlpool use EON solutions to enhance the interactive user experience to effectively increase sales, better communicate product functionality and decrease the cost of service, training and technical support. Some educational institutions who have adopted EON’s technology solutions include: the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, the Southeastern Institute of Manufacturing and Technology (located on the campus of the Florence-Darlington Technical College), Old Dominion University, Marquette University, Milwaukee Area Technical College, Discovery World Museum, Oklahoma City Community College, Concord University, North Dakota State University, Texas State Technical College – Waco, El Paso Community College, University of Alabama, Hazard Community and Technical College, University of Hawaii, Lansing Community College, University of Kentucky, Maysville Community and Technical College, Miami University, Red Rocks Community College. For further information, visit www.eonreality.com.