Stakeholder Newsletter: October 2006
Action 22: Specialist Facilities

Digital 2010 identifies Specialist Facilities as High Priority under Action 22: Support new and existing strategically selected centres to maximise the crossover of digital technologies, applications and skills into economically significant sectors such as design, engineering, logistics and healthcare. These centres should link to National Skills Academies, Centres of Industrial Collaboration, NTIs and CoVEs, though local delivery will be important where critical mass or competitive advantage is anticipated. Whilst meeting regional needs, these centres could attract a wider market.

The Action Plan recognises two key engagement and delivery mechanisms:

Centres – Specialist skills centres including:

  • Centres of Industrial Collaboration (CIC) and New Technology Institutes (NTI) in HE;
  • Centres of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) in FE;

Other ‘delivery pyramids’;

Steps towards implementing these “bricks and mortar” fundamentals to house forward-thinking technological equipment and initiatives are already in full flow.  Each newsletter will bring news of what’s happening in the broader region under action 22. In This issue: 

LETS DKE (Leading Edge Technology Solutions, Doncaster Knowledge Exchange)

 

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LETS

(Leading Edge Technology Solutions)

Doncaster Knowledge Exchange, (DKE)
Doncaster College High Melton campus

 

Backed by Objective 1 and American Technology leaders EON Reality and VBrick, the LETS project is unique.

Through the £4million European Interactive Visualisation Research Centre, LETS makes what was previously science fiction a science fact – offering businesses of all sizes previously unthinkable competitive opportunities while boosting the UK’s standing in the Knowledge Economy of the future.

Key Facts at a Glance

  • The Interactive Visual Research Centre which is home to the LETS project is unique in Europe – combining next generation 3D and visual imaging technology with active research within these fields.
  • The LETS project uses 4D technology, which frees three-dimensional images from the screen and depicts true-to-life or truer-than-life images which are interactive and can be moved, enlarged or reduced and integrated with other software.
  • LETS represents new ways for wide variety of organisations to communicate and business and had a particular relevance for organisations operating in the design, marketing, engineering, architectural and medical fields as well as education.
  • LETS represents a unique contribution to the future education and job prospects of people living in South Yorkshire – offering opportunities to develop skills in new and emerging technologies and subsequent careers with high-earning potential within the growing knowledge economy.
  • LETS offers business and organizations based in South Yorkshire affordable access to technologies which have, until now, been the preserve of major international corporations and significant blue-chip companies.
  • LETS has been created thanks to a unique collaboration between Doncaster College, South Yorkshire Objective 1 and American-based global technology leaders, EON Reality Inc of California and Connecticut –based VBrick.  As a result of the partnership the Doncaster-based European IRVC will have constant access to the very latest imaging technology including newly emerging applications yet to be seen in wide commercial use.
  • Via Eon Reality, LETS already has access to Microsoft’s newly released Touchlight software.  The new software allows computer users to interact and move 3D object around on screen with just a wave of the hand.

“The purpose of the Interactive Visual Research Centre (IVRC) is to bring the latest technological developments to the heart of the UK and place South Yorkshire companies in pole position to compete globally,” says Malcolm Kay, Strategic Advisor to LETS and Executive Director of the Doncaster Digital Knowledge Exchange.

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