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Below are our news items from the last year:
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Unity3D new mini-site for Serious Games and Simulations
Unity3D have launched a new mini-site for Serious Games and Simulations – “A new home of Unity for serious games. Development and design studios, multinational corporations and government organizations all use the Unity game development engine. They are creating successful and award-winning 3D content for military simulation, medical...Read More »
Daden hits over 10,000 views on SlideShare
We have reached a new milestone on SlideShare, with our documents having been viewed over 10,000 times.
Presentations ranging from Introductions to our different products and virtual worlds to collaborating with universities, with our Introduction to Datascape and Introduction to Chatbots proving to...Read More »
Using Datascape for Visualising Genetic Regulatory Codes
Case Study from The University of Warwick on their experiences of using Datascape:
“We have used Datascape to visualise hundreds of short regions of non-protein-coding DNA sequences which are evolutionarily conserved across distant plant species.
The sequences contain short sequence patterns (called “motifs”) and...Read More »
Unity Serious Games Highlight Reel at I/ITSEC 2012
Daden’s Data Visualisation tool, Datascape has been included in the Unity Serious Games Highlight Reel at I/ITSEC 2012.
Unity is used to create a lot of interactive software outside of the video game industry. Everything from architectural visualizations to military...Read More »
Securescape – an immersive, multi-user 3D environment to manage live security incidents
Birmingham UK, 27th November 2012: An innovative new way of managing live security incidents and better understanding the context of what is happening, is now possible with the launch of Securescape – a multi-user 3D security application created by immersive environments specialists Daden Limited.
Securescape models key...Read More »
Datascape Video Tutorial #4 - Intermediate Network & Social Graphs
Just posted the latest video tutorial for Datascape:
Datascape Tutorial 4 – Intermediate Network Graphs from DadenMedia on Vimeo.
This covers the advanced mode of the Force Graph controller, filtering the graph and some more sophisticated graph examples.
...Read More »Daden release results of its Data Visualisation and Visual Analytics Survey
30 October 2012: The results of a Data Visualisation and Visual Analytics Survey have been released by Daden Limited (Daden). Daden created this survey as part of the development of their new ground-breaking data visualisation tool, Datascape. The aim was to understand what applications analysts were already using, what...Read More »
Datascape Video Tutorial 3 - Introduction to Network Graphs
This tutorial shows you how to load network graph data into Datascape, use the mapping functions to control its appearance, and the force graph function to improve its layout.
...Read More »Datascape Tutorial Video 2 - Maps, GPS and Geo-Temporal Data
This tutorial video for Datascape shows you how to use maps, plot geo-coded data onto the map, and then use the third dimension to plot time data. The example used is GPS data collected from a smartphone app, but would be applied to any...Read More »
New Immersive Visual Analytics Whitepaper
We have a new Immersive Visual Analytics whitepaper available to download from our website.
This white paper reflects on our experiences of data visualisation, following a journey from 2D and 2.5D visualisations to fully immersive 3D visual analytics. It builds not only the anecdotal experiences of ourselves...Read More »
Datascape Video Tutorial 1
Datascape Tutorial 1 – Survey Data from DadenMedia on Vimeo.
This basic intro video tutorial to Daden’s 3D immersive visualisation application Datascape shows you how to import a simple...Read More »
Data Visualisation Competition launched by Daden
Birmingham UK, 2nd October 2012: A competition for the best immersive 3D visualisation, using their ground-breaking application Datascape, has been launched by Daden Limited (Daden).
Datascape provides an immersive environment in which users can explore and interact with data from almost any source. The competition asks entrants...Read More »
Datascape - a ground-breaking application for 3D data visualisation
Birmingham UK, 20th September 2012: Analysts now have the ability to explore and make sense of their data in 3D with the launch of Datascape – a 3D data visualisation application – by immersive environments specialists Daden Limited.
Data visualisation is a powerful method for analysing and...Read More »
Daden asks - what makes a good data visualisation system?
Birmingham UK, 8th August 2012: A survey to find out what functionality users want in a visual analytics system has been launched by immersive data visualisation specialists Daden Limited (Daden).
This survey asks what the current “state of the market” is in terms...Read More »
Daden to represent West Midlands at the British Embassy ICT Global Business Summit
Birmingham UK, 25th July 2012: Daden has been selected to attend the British Business Embassy ICT global sector day during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. They are the only West Midlands company to be successful in their bid to exhibit on the 3rd August in one...Read More »
Visualising protein data using Datascape
I’ve been meaning to share these short videos I created using an earlier version of of our immersive visual anaytics tool Datascape.
The first two visualisation shows a network of experimentally verified protein-protein interactions in plants. There are 675 proteins and 2323 interactions shown. The proteins are sized by age, so the...Read More »
New 3D Teaching Environment For City Academy Norwich
Birmingham UK, 11th July 2012: Within weeks of being commissioned by City Academy Norwich (CAN), immersive solution specialists Daden have designed and delivered a new 3D virtual teaching environment for City Academy Norwich. The environment consists of a 1:1 model of the new City Academy building, and four satellite islands (or...Read More »
Easier building and deployment of immersive 3D learning scenarios with OOPAL
Educators and trainers can now create engaging immersive learning exercises more easily and rapidly using an innovative web-based application called OOPAL (Object Orientated Practice and Learning).
...Read More »3D EuroVisual Analytics - Around the world in 30,000 tweets
Outside of sporting events and royal weddings, Eurovision is an international live event that has people talking and discussing its merits and who votes for who. And like marmite you either love it or hate it but you can’t ignore it.
For people who follow my twitter...Read More »
Unity Internships at Daden
Daden may have a number of short-term (2-3 month) internships available in Unity. We are looking ideally for people with a mix of Unity3D skills, including scripting & programming (Javascript or C#) or 3D modelling (Unity placement and creation in Blender, Collada, 3D Studio Max or similar). If...Read More »
Immersive Visualisation of Door Security Swipe and Computer Cybersecurity Activity Data in OpenSim
Daden have created a short video showing some of the work they’ve been doing over the last couple of days. The video is about creating an immersive visualisation around the IEEE Vast Challenge 2009 data, with the focus on problems around the security of an embassy.
Daden asks industry - what makes a good interactive chatbot?
We have created a survey to find out what functionality users want to see when they interact with a virtual agent – or chatbot.
Soulla Stylianou, Daden’s Marketing Director said, ” We have clients who use our chatbots to provide customer support on websites, in virtual worlds and...Read More »
Daden release results of its Authoring Tools for Immersive Training survey
The results of an Authoring Tools for Immersive Training survey have been released by Daden Limited (Daden). The survey indicated that educators want to be able to easily create 3D training exercises themselves without needing the help of technologists nor expert knowledge of how to build the “sets”...Read More »
New Jobs Created by Daden in Birmingham
New jobs have been created in the Midlands by Daden as a result of recent investment in the company. The team has successfully recruited another three people bringing the compliment of staff to eight – a fourfold increase in the company’s size over the last two years.