Laurent Ach

About this web site

Laurent — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

This is my personal web site. You will find here a few links and some information about the projects I was involved in and the companies I worked for.

You may also want to view my LinkedIn profile

Virtual Characters at Cantoche

Laurent — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:13:00 +0200

Since end of 2004, I am CTO at Cantoche. Just have a look at Cantoche web site. We are the best at creating virtual characters and avatar technologies for web and video communication.

3D advertisement

Laurent — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 20:43:00 +0200

End of 2003, I created the visual part of 3D interactive software for advertisement, using hardware shaders and gesture recognition.

Mobile Phones at Sagem

Laurent — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 20:39:00 +0200

In 2004, I was manager of technical requirements from mobile phone operators, at SAGEM Communication.

3D Streaming at Visiospace

Laurent — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 21:01:00 +0200

From 2001 to 2003, I was in charge of 3D visualization technologies in Visiospace, a start-up company that developed 3D streaming software. The technical results were amazing. You could zoom indefinitely to see more details in 3D or images across Internet much like Google does now.

Virtual Reality at Thales

Laurent — Wed, 01 Aug 1990 21:17:00 +0200

From 1990 to 2001 I worked at Thales as a software developer and project manager. Beginning with military projects using Neural Networks, I later joined a team of 3D pioneers coming from TDI (see history of Maya) to form the Virtual Reality group where our customers included the Industrial Design Department of Renault (France) and Honda R&D (Japan). I also participated in the “VR for Europe” project funded by the European commission.

You can see here a presentation of the Virtual Reality group of Thales, at that time.