The others concentrate on lens design or on simulators, but not both design and simulation.įuture of Optis "We believe in utter realism for VR, and so we needed to add another dimension to excite another sense: hearing the sounds that are related to what we are seeing.
There are several, but none that do exactly what Optis does. At Solidworks World, the company is unveiling a new version of Speos for Solidworks that is focused on lighting. The number #2 market for Optis is electronics and lighting. We tell them that our software doesn't make their products look beautiful it makes products look real - because if it is not real, then it is not beautiful in the real world."Ĭustomers fall into two groups: suppliers of equipment (such as radios, GPSes, and dashboards) like Bosch and Continenal and OEMs who make the cars - like Bentley, Ford, Jaguar, BMW, Tesla, Honda, and Mazda - and who want to validate that the equipment from suppliers comes together in a way that is safe for the driver. "The manufacturers want to shorten the time to market by designing their cars without prototypes, and so we must reproduce the real world for them. "Our biggest market is in automotive," explained Mr Delacour. For instance, software from Optis is used to design the lenses of cell phones and projectors. It sees a third of its sales in its top market of Japan due to the country's big automotive and electronics industries. "One of our major differences is that we model human vision - we start with light and then create rendered images."Ībout Optis Headquartered near the Mediterranean Sea in southern France, Optis now has 230 employees, most of them engineers, and is growing at a rate of 30% a year. (See figure 1.) "What you see is light we want to generate the image from that," explained Mr Delacour.
Over the last 28 years, the company changed its focus to develop software that analyzes light, instead of optics - working with both visible and invisible light, such as infrared and ultraviolet. "We try to make it as easy as possible so that users do not need to be experts the designer just needs to specify the light sources," Mr Delacour told me over WhatsApp. The Solstis (later Speos) software initially ran standalone on DOS and then on Windows.īut then he found that designers wanted his analysis software to run inside their CAD programs, and so now it is integrated into Solidworks, Catia v5, Creo, and NX. He developed software for determining the path lasers take through optics. Optis was founded in 1989 by Jacques Delacour, who has a background in optical simulation, such as lens design. Interview by Ralph Grabowski with Jacques Delacour
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