2001 Oculus CO , from Oculus Technologies Corp., helps design and product development teams overcome limitations of disparate systems by linking key information over P2P connections. CO lets team members select specific data elements to share from common design tools such as CAD software, databases, or mathematical modeling applications. Once these elements are shared, teams can adjust values across different applications and platforms. Providing this interrelated information can shorten a product's time to market.
Oculus then develops a custom CO application to exchange data among the existing tools.
The CO browser lets users expose only the necessary data, such as a database field, spread sheet cell, or design parameter. All other information can be kept secure. The data is always accessed from the source, so no replication to remote users is necessary. Team members can have edit or read-only access. Data security is maintained using X.509 certificates and 128-bit encryption.