It's a Head Up Display for your PC ..

Spectasia brings fighter-pilot technology to your PC to provide intuitive program, file and bookmark navigation. The "instantly lookable" 3D layout makes items easier to spot, increasing productivity.

Spectasia radically reduces the time you spend looking for items, and avoids wasted clicks and embarrassing retrieval uncertainties.

Take a look at the forthcoming Spectasia 6.0 ..

A Lookable User Interface ..

Spectasia is a new way to access content visually; named a Lookable User Interface.

Here, wide-angle perspective creates a fixed 3D location for every item. Pinpointing any link is then as easy as looking towards it, and you can select items much faster than with Menus and Lists !

Lost on your own PC ?

Consider the task of selecting an item from amongst the many 1000's of bookmarks, programs and files resident on your computer. People everywhere use Menus for these retrieval tasks. However, with Menus, it is all to common to spend several minutes searching around for a single item.

Menus were designed in the 1960's for navigating no more than around a dozen items. However when the number of levels or items exceeds this number, then Menus grow cumbersome. Two problems occur. Either the user must scan through each item on a long list, and scanning becomes tedious. Or else the desired item is burried deep inside another Menu level which you cannot find.

With Menus, the user wastes time reading and re-reading irrelevent options. And this kills browsing and navigation !

Lookablity ..

Menus are not very Lookable because they do not create a sense of place. Items are simply left to float around the screen, and without any fixed visual locations.

Spectasia's 3D perspective grid, on the other hand, has a distinct pattern. Here one place is clearly differentiated from another. The eye can then dart and flit unhindered from one item to another. Here you can go straight to interesting items without delay.

Spectasia's Lookable scenes guide the eye straight to item locations, and you can rely on your own visual memory to find items with ever increasing efficiency and hence speed.

Browsing and navigation become almost effortless as a result.

Say goodbye to aimless searching ..

Spectasia is absolutely the fastest way to find any item on your PC.

Memory tests prove that users can remember the precise 3D locations of many items. The need to search and then re-search the screen for the same items, over and over again, and day after day, is eliminated.

Here you simply look for what you want, and almost before you realize what has happened, you already have it.

Ergonomic Retrieval ..

With Spectasia item selection is faster also less fiddly than with other retrieval methods.

Gone is the requirement to squint hard to read long lists of text items. Gone also is the need to open up multiple menu levels searching for items whose location is who-knows-where.

With Spectasia you simply scan one or two broad panoramas, and before you know it you see what you are looking for.

It operates like a Head Up Display ..

Spectasia is in some respects similar to a "Head Up Display" used by a fighter pilot. The central aim here being one and the same, that is rapid and timely access to information, and in a 3D visual form that maximizes the direct perception of item locations.

By establishing a clearly distinguishable angle-of-view and also depth location for every item, Spectasia is able to amplify knowledge and memory of content.

Spectasia reduces eye and click fatigue ..

Spectasia reduces the commonly experienced problems of eye and click fatigue; being side affects which are the result of constantly looking at, and interacting with, long lists of items on the display screen.

With Spectasia the repetitive scanning procedures required to find any item are considerably reduced, thereby eliminating the need to peer or stare at the screen anywhere near as intensly as you must with lists of text.

Furthermore, with Spectasia the number and frequency of experimental "clicks" required to find any item are significantly reduced.

Spectasia software

Spectasia is priced at just 9.99 UK pounds (around 20 dollars US).

On principle, we supply the highest quality software at a price that is affordable by everyone.

To order Spectasia by PAYPAL click on the "Buy Now" button ..

Downloading Spectasia ..

Once you have purchased Spectasia using our PayPal shopping basket, you will be directed to a location where you can immediately download Spectasia.

Operating System Availability ..

You should refer to the Installation Notes prior to purchase of Spectasia.

Features of Spectasia ..

* Browse, navigate and select item choices inside a 3-D panorama

* Create 3-D links to all your stuff .. programs, media files etc.

* Drag and drop items directly into the Spectasia window

* Manouver up and down levels rapidly using the Clickstream Memory

* Switch between Gadget and Full-screen modes instantly

* Create an unlimited number of items and levels !

+ Lots more world-beating features ..

Why you need Spectasia ..

Right now, information presentation on PCs, mobiles and PDAs is pretty poor, and low levels of retrieval efficiency are the norm. The primary reason is an over-reliance on Menus and lists of text.

Menus force users to read and scan long lists of text, and items are obscured by visual clutter. Users have a tendency to become lost, and can forget both what they have seen, how to find it again, and even what they were looking for in the first place !

Spectasia accelerates retrieval ..

As an alternative, Spectasia allows you to explore content simply by directing your gaze towards interesting items.

Formerly static and linear content is brought to life by means of layered information galleries. Here rich panoramic scenes capitalize on our natural ability to rapidly survey a wide-field view prior to then focusing in on items in a snap.

Put simply, Spectasia takes the hassle out of locating items. It will also increase your knowledge of content locations with every session, helping you find items even faster the next time.

It boosts your productivity ..

Studies show that people waste up to 50 percent of their time scrambling to find information.

Spectasia helps because it eliminates the need to continually search around your display screen, trying to find the same items, over and over again, and day after day.

More often than not, with Spectasia, you can spot items in an instant.

Spectasia versus the Mac Doc

Is Spectasia faster for retrieval than the Mac Doc ?

Well, it depends. If you are looking for one of 6-7 commonly used items, then Spectasia is just as fast or perhaps a little faster.

However, if you are searching through upwards of 10 - 100's of items then Spectasia is much more efficient than the Mac Doc, typically being an order of magnitude faster.

Why search when you can Look ?

The in-built search tools now found in OSX and Windows Vista are usefull utilities when you want to find something obscure or else locate an item that you have lost. However they are far too slow, fiddly and time-consuming to use several times a day.

Quickly remembering item names, giving correct spellings, plus typing speed / accuracy are major issues here.

Spectasia, on the other hand, provides a convenient way to lay your eyes (and mouse) on something in less than 5 seconds flat.

All things considered, you find items much faster with Spectasia !

Company profile

MATT Services is a Research and Development company.

Our first product is Spectasia, which is a Lookable User Interface. This is a new way to browse, navigate and retrieve content visually.

Managing Director Philip Radley founded MATT Services in 1994 to develop new technologies for the engineering industry.

Director Dr Alan Radley is the inventor of Spectasia. Alan has a Ph.D. in Physics from University College London.

Incorporation

MATT Services has been Incorporated since 1994, and is registered in England and Wales.

MATT Services UK company registration number is 2919015.

MATT Services registered address is 177 Warbreck Drive, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY2 9RA, UK.

Our mission

Our mission is to improve and transform the efficiency of information retrieval.

We aim to provide timely, novel and rich information views on a variety of platforms, both mobile and fixed.

Associations

MATT Services is an Associate Member of InfoLab21, the MIT-like enterprise at Lancaster University.

See http://www.infolab21.lancs.ac.uk/ for InfoLab21's website.

MATT Services is a member of the Virtual Maastricht McLuhan Institute, which explores Knowledge Organisation and Cultural Computing, being an organisation which is run by Dr Kim Veltman.

Visit .. http://www.eculturenet.org:8080/opencms/opencms/vmmi and http://www.sumscorp.com (Kim's personal site).

Demonstrations of Spectasia

2003 - The Computer Science Group, University College London

2003 - The Computer Science Department, Imperial College London

2003 - The Computer Science Department, University of Hawaii

2004 - The Vision Group, University of Toronto

2002, 2003, 2004 - The Maastricht McCluhan Institute, Maastricht

2007- CeBit Technology Fair, Hanover, Germany

2007 - FOSE Technology Show, Washington DC, USA

2008 - I-Tech Technology Show, London, UK

Our details ..

Alan Radley,

MATT Services Ltd,

177 Warbreck Drive, Blackpool, Lancashire,

FY2 9RA, United Kingdom.


alan.radley@gmail.com

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Sign up for a free Spectasia Account ..

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Spectasia Installation Notes ..

Spectasia is available as a stand alone application for Intel based computers running the operating systems listed below.

In the first instance, you should read the notes below which are specific to your own operating system, prior to then downloading the correct version of Spectasia.

Note that Spectasia requires a Java (JRE) and also Java 3D (both available free form SUN).

We also recommend that you first try installing a Trial Edition of Spectasia in order to validate the compatibility of your own operating system.

Spectasia for the Mac ..

Spectasia Mac Edition has been designed to run on the latest Mac OSX Leopard system (i.e. OSX 10.5 and above).

Note that Spectasia requires a Java Virtual Machine (JRE) and Java 3D to be installed on the system on which it will be used. These are both pre-existing installations on all modern Apple Mac computers, so users can forget about this requirement if thier machine is less than 2 years old.

Spectasia for Windows Vista and XP ..

Spectasia requires a Java Virtual Machine (JRE) and Java 3D to be installed on the system on which it will be used. Both of these software components are available for free from the Sun website.

We provide full instructions for installing these components and also Spectasia in the download package.

Spectasia for Linux ..

We provide a version of Spectasia for Linux operating systems, however due to the wide variation between operating system versions we suggest that customers first download and install the Trial version of Spectasia prior to making a purchase.

Spectasia requires a Java Virtual Machine (JRE) and Java 3D to be installed on the system on which it will be used. Both of these software components are available for free from the Sun website.

We provide full instructions for installing Java 3D and Spectasia in the download package.

The Spectasia Linux installer requires Java 6 to be installed.

You can obtain Java 6 for Linux from "http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp".

On some Linux installations the installer should be made executable as follows ..

1) Download the Spectasia Linux installer to the root location ("/") .. install.jar

2) Change into your root .. (i.e. cd /)

3) Run "sudo chmod 777 install.jar"

4) Run the install.jar (with the JRE 6 runtime) and follow the on-screen instructions.

To run Spectasia ..

1) Change into /usr/share/

2) Run "sudo chmod 777 -R Spectasia_Files". (only performed once)

3) Run "cd /Spectasia_Files"

4) Run "/bin/sh/ spectasia_linux.sh"