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| ULTIMedia
designs, manufactures and markets a global offer of interactive
terminals and information screens, and offers a wide range
of complementary services from the secured Internet browser
to accessories dedicated to interactive technologies and
other terminal application software. It would seem that there is only one step from the architecture to the interactive terminals, the step taken by Eric Dumouchel, (Creator of ULTIMedia), a man with a personality bubbling with activity and teeming with ideas. Architect and designer, he has an impressive record of achievements, thanks to his talent, his training (ENSAD and ESAG) and his energy, his creativity, his sense of what is functional and the control of the industrial process. In 1987, he founded his agency as an architect, the ED agency. With a passion for new technologies and encouraged by an incredible ability to create and generate ideas, he takes an interest in “everything that is in the forefront, especially new computer technologies, everything that stimulates the spirit without ever cutting off ties with reality”. It is therefore perfectly natural that he has used interactive technologies since 1987 to present his architectural projects, together with the hyper-realist 3D virtual animations, which at that time were pioneering tools. Around 1990 Eric Dumouchel found himself entrusted with the development of a variable-geometry mobile unit containing the first interactive touch screens. He devised a ready-made solution for this 12 meter-long mobile unit (80 square meters, spread out), which in a way was his first giant terminal ... Eric Dumouchel makes a point of never separating what
is functional from what is aesthetic, but rather of
blending both concepts through action, a challenge
he met with ULTIMedia, which he created in 1997. The
Davos week is symbolic in the history of ULTIMedia.
Some 100 terminals are arranged in the station for
the spectacular brainstorming organized by the World
Economic Forum (WEF).
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