| Oculus Technologies Corporation is based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA and was formed in June 1999. Originally Oculus, a privately held company, implemented and supported a commercial version of the MIT CADLab Distributed Object Modeling Environment (DOME). The company now offers consulting services, training, custom information technology solutions, and off-the-shelf software tools. In particular, Oculus Technologies specializes in the mapping, process design, linking, integration, modeling, simulation, and optimization of distributed information. Oculus Technologies was originally funded in the year 2000 by Ford Motor Company so that Oculus could develop a commercial distributed object-oriented decision support environment for modeling and simulation. |
Oculus developed its flagship integration and decision support environment product CO® to enable the easy plug-and-play integration of component information into a system model or process. CO's architecture enables companies to create dynamic data links between spreadsheet, database, legacy, analysis, and CAD applications, while controlling on a case-by-case basis what and how information is shared. CO allows real-time trade-off analyses to help users understand the impact of individual design changes on the larger product, and optimization of interdependent values to determine a product's preferred performance. CO allows people to integrate disparate and distributed software applications without coding or with minimal coding. The product also allows granular data-sharing (i.e., a single cell of a spreadsheet rather than the entire file). CO allows for both synchronous and asynchronous information sharing. CO is a cross-platform tool for building distributed system models. It is standards-based (XML, CORBA, COM, SSL); runs on major operating systems (MacOSX, Win32, AIX, Solaris, IRIX, HP-UX, Linux); extensible (Java, C++, C); and integrates with engineering applications (Excel, Pro/ENGINEER, I-DEAS, Unigraphics, SolidWorks, AutoCAD, MATLAB, ANSYS, Oracle, Access, other ODBC databases).
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