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bjornkn · May 9th, 2008

It looks like Autodesk has bought Realviz
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet...&siteID=123112

It makes me sad every time a big company swallows a smaller one. It is really bad for the competition with just a few big actors, like Autodesk and Adobe, Microsoft and Apple.
I use ImageModeler from Realviz, so now this makes me an Autodesk user again (I also owned LightScape and Autodesk Animator) - but not by choice.
IMO Realviz was not a well-run company, Imagemodeler hasn't been updated in 3 years although it is quite buggy, but it is still sad to see that the big ones get bigger while the small ones die.
At least it looks like they will keep IM a standalone program, as opposed to MatchMover, ReTimer and VTour (which was promising, but very buggy when I tried it) which will be incorporated into Max or whatever?

May 9th, 2008	#1 (permalink)
bjornkn Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Kristiansand Age: 56 Posts: 206 Name: Bjørn Kåre Nilssen	Autodesk hungry again! It looks like Autodesk has bought Realviz http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet...&siteID=123112 It makes me sad every time a big company swallows a smaller one. It is really bad for the competition with just a few big actors, like Autodesk and Adobe, Microsoft and Apple. I use ImageModeler from Realviz, so now this makes me an Autodesk user again (I also owned LightScape and Autodesk Animator) - but not by choice. IMO Realviz was not a well-run company, Imagemodeler hasn't been updated in 3 years although it is quite buggy, but it is still sad to see that the big ones get bigger while the small ones die. At least it looks like they will keep IM a standalone program, as opposed to MatchMover, ReTimer and VTour (which was promising, but very buggy when I tried it) which will be incorporated into Max or whatever?