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Petites Boîtes à Expériences:
Building an Online Science Kit for Arte Television's Website
 ARTE
and the Virtools Behavior Lab
ARTE, the French-German public television station, offers a host
of programs designed to explain scientific topics in straightforward
language to audiences of all ages. As an extension of the channel's
television programming, the website www.arte-tv.com
expands on existing content and also produces its own in-depth special
features and forums. To make science more accessible to its audience,
ARTE-tv.com chose Virtools™ to create a series of applications
using interactive real-time 3D.
The Virtools Behavior Lab
is our in-house development studio. Our team anticipates the needs
of our clients and responds with consulting, training and innovative
behavioral 3D applications.
 Challenge:
Use Interactive 3D on the Web to Explain Complex Scientific Concepts
The producer of ARTE's online science features was looking for an
innovative way to let visitors interact with scientific objects and
data. The goal was to provide a series of hands-on activity modules
to give visitors a chance to gain new understanding of various concepts
– especially topics that are difficult to grasp or phenomena
invisible to the naked eye.  Creating
this type of project called for a powerful toolset, capable of managing
both elaborate 3D graphics and rich interactivity. The resulting
application had to furnish an intuitive interface as a reusable
framework for the entire series. Interactivity within each module
had to be optimized to give immediate user feedback. Finally, the
development platform had to ensure efficient, streamlined deployment
online.
Solution: Virtools for Instinctive and
Educational Interactive Modules
Interactivity is at the heart of Virtools software solutions. By
putting Virtools authoring tools to work, ARTE's interactive modules
successfully provide users with a fun and comprehensive educational
experience.
Each module is divided into a linear EXPLANATION section with animated
demonstrations that furnish valuable background information. The
graphical quality and general flow of the application carry over
into the EXPERIMENT section, which lets users put their newfound
knowledge to work.
Users interact directly with real-time 3D objects, making learning
more intuitive and immersive – two of the advantages inherent
in applications made with Virtools solutions.
Key Benefits
 The
interactive applications are produced by an 4-person team doing
full design, graphics and Virtools scripting. Thanks to the production
hub provided by Virtools Dev, team members moved forward simultaneously
and effectively.
- Rich user experience thanks to complex interactivity made possible
by Virtools solutions.
- Fluid interactivity and transitions for more complete, contextual
understanding of scientific concepts.
- Effective development and online deployment.
- Superior real-time 3D graphics performance.
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Experience the Online Demos 
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Customer Quote
"We have several interactive games online at ARTE-tv.com,
but for scientific topics our goal was to find something that
would really immerse visitors. We wanted to give them a chance
to do hands-on experiments, to recreate or transform scientific
phenomena in an interactive 3D environment. We chose Virtools™
to create these projects so we could offer intuitive learning
experiences and let our visitors visualize scientific concepts
that are otherwise invisible to the naked eye."
Susanna Lotz
Producer
arte-tv.com
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Virtools Product Advantages
Original and instinctive interface design
Rich, complex interactivity
Stunning 3D graphics with the best rendering available
Small file sizes for fast downloads
Completely interactive website
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For further information, contact sales@virtools.com
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