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[In Japanese] Tactus Technlogies' Forklift simulator is for actual reenactment of the forklift tasks...

Using a NIOSH grant, a company named Tactus Technologies has developed a virtual reality training program for forklift operators that the company's leaders believe will reduce injuries and deaths associated with forklift accidents...

Tactus Technologies has developed a first-of-its-kind virtual reality training program for forklift operators, a product that company officials expect will reduce work-related injuries and deaths...

The Wall Street Journal (September 7, 2011) | Schools are trying to keep up with the multiplex, keen to find ways to engage students in an age of 3-D movies and gadgets that make traditional classroom materials look dated. And the technology and equipment makers are eager to create a new market for their 3-D products...

Amherst Chamber of Commerce (Amherst, NY) | Since its foundation, Tactus has been a pioneer in Virtual Reality solutions and has developed the next generation of physics based software libraries that allow for real-time interaction, simulation and visualization. Specializing in Virtual Reality applications in education, medicine an industry, Tactus Technologies continues to revolutionize the current state-of-the art for learning in these fields.

Business First (Buffalo, NY) | A little media attention can go a long way – even if yours isn’t the company receiving the press attention. At least that’s what Jim Mayrose, Tactus Technologies Inc, CEO is finding. That’s because the company’s website continues to get hits from people looking for more information on virtual frog dissection versus cutting open a real slimy critter...

Business First (Buffalo, NY) | James Mayrose sits down in an office chair and rolls up behind a video game console. It includes a steering wheel with a stick shift mounted to a desktop and is flanked by the latest flight simulator joysticks. At his feet are gas and brake pedals...

TenLinks.com | Protean Clay, released in January of 2010, has found wide applications in disciplines such as industrial design, digital art and virtual prototyping. Protean-created 3-D models can also be conveniently imported into widely used commercial packages, such as 3-D Studio Max, to serve as an integral part of larger-scale animation or product design projects...

A graduate thesis examining the effects of V-Frog versus an actual frog dissection, when measuring student achievement on a pre- and post-test, showed that students scored statistically higher on the post-test when they participated in the V-Frog program.

Business Journals | The prototype spaceships created by Tactus Technologies in Getzville are pretty cool. In the palm of his hand, CEO James Mayrose points to detail on one: radio towers, cone-shaped exhaust ports and a bridge, modeled after a Star Destroyer used by the Imperial Starfleet in “Star Wars” movies. The other is rounder and more cartoony, something George Jetson may have test-driven...

Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY) | One of the country most vocal animal rights groups is spreading the word about a virtual dissection program developed and sold by a University at Buffalo high-tech spin-off company. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, a Virginia-based activist group that works, among other goals, to end what it considers needless dissections of laboratory animals in schools across the country, provided the introductions and a $5,000 grant so that a North Carolina community college could test the invention of Getzville-based Tactus Technologies in its biology classes this year...

Physorg.com | Students can now cut, probe and investigate the inner organs of frogs without smelly formaldehyde or sharp dissection tools. V-Frog, a virtual reality frog dissection software developed by Tactus Technologies in Getzville, was put on the market earlier this year. Kevin Chugh, president and chief scientist of Tactus Technologies, believes V-Frog offers educational advantages that dissection of a real frog cannot...

ZDNet.com | Computer scientists at the University of Buffalo have developed V-Frog, the world’s first virtual-reality-based frog dissection software designed for biology education. Contrary to previous virtual frog dissection kits, this software is a real simulation product. As says one researcher, ‘other products out there are multi-media, not true virtual reality.’

Physorg.com | A provider of virtual reality, visualization and simulation products and services, Tactus Technologies is a spin-off of the University at Buffalo Virtual Reality Laboratory. “Other products out there are multi-media, not true virtual reality,” explains Kevin P. Chugh, Ph.D. ’01, president and chief scientist at Tactus Technologies, based in Getzville, a northern suburb of Buffalo...