{"id":677,"date":"2010-11-19T10:01:26","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T00:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=677"},"modified":"2015-03-13T10:56:54","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T23:56:54","slug":"virtual-reality-in-delphi-with-forum8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=677","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Reality in Delphi with Forum8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"vrDelphi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/vrdelphi1.jpg\" alt=\"vrDelphi\" width=\"474\" height=\"179\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I spent the morning at <a href=\"http:\/\/forum8.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forum8<\/a>\u2019s Design Festival in Tokyo a couple of days ago. Forum8 build Virtual Reality solutions, mostly it seems for construction, automotive and railway design, traffic and emergency simulation. A couple of hundred of their customers were at the event, sharing the solutions they\u2019d built on Forum8\u2019s technology and getting a look at what Forum8 have coming in the new versions.<\/p>\n<p>Why am I telling you all of this? Well, Forum8\u2019s VR engine and application is written in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.embarcadero.com\/products\/delphi\" target=\"_blank\">Delphi<\/a>, and the SDK that their customers and partners can use to customise the VR solutions is also based on Delphi. There were a number of structural and automotive engineers and designers there who\u2019s first exposure to Delphi was by customising Forum8\u2019s system, and it was really cool to hear how enthusiastic they were about it and what else they can do with Delphi in general.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/photo33.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"Forum8's Delphi SDK manual\" src=\"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/photo3-thumb3.jpg\" alt=\"Forum8's Delphi SDK manual\" width=\"184\" height=\"244\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I got to test a few of the simulators they had on the conference floor, including one which was trying to measure my driving skills and response times in various driving conditions (rain, traffic emergencies, etc). Everyone was very polite, but judging by the anime-style sad faces that kept coming up on the screen after each test I\u2019m guessing I didn\u2019t do very well.<\/p>\n<p>Playing aside, I got to spend some time with some of the Forum8 engineers, both to discuss what they were doing with Delphi, and what they needed from us in future versions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I spent the morning at Forum8\u2019s Design Festival in Tokyo a couple of days ago. Forum8 build Virtual Reality solutions, mostly it seems for construction, automotive and railway design, traffic and emergency simulation. A couple of hundred of their customers were at the event, sharing the solutions they\u2019d built on Forum8\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-uncategorized","tag-embarcadero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1786,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions\/1786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}