LivingArcana.com Announces Open-Source 3D Game Engine for Apple iPhone
Salt Lake City, UT (PRWEB) November 14, 2007
Gregory Ray, a lead organizer of LivingArcana.com announced today that he has hired the Brazilian programmer, Gutemberg Ribeiro, of “Conceptus” an open source game engine, to port his engine over to Apple’s iPhone platform. The port of the game engine will remain open source and will be available under LGPL license to allow true 3D game development on the iPhone.
When asked why Gregory would make this available for free and pay for it out of his pocket he was quoted “I am trying to stay true to the LivingArcana.com ideal of having a free community ran online game. The 3D engine is vital to the project but it is also only a very small part of a very large project and once we integrate it into the LivingArcana.com project I have no other plans of using it for other projects. Why would I want hundreds of hours to goto waste?” The first public release of Conceptus for the iPhone is scheduled for early 2008.
The Conceptus game engine which already runs on the Windows, Mac, Symbian and even the Nintendo DS platforms will bring ParticleFX, BSP, Octree, PagingLandscape, Zip Compression, GlGenerator, GlPostProcessor, OpenAL, and an Extension Loader to the new iPhone. This benefits of these is that it will enable game developers to focus on writing game code and will leave the low level hardware code to the Conceptus engine.
It should also be mentioned that this project is being done without the support of Apple. Apple has said they will be offering official 3rd party support for native applications February 2008, however, the developers behind LivingArcana.com have been developing for the iPhone platform using a community released SDK for the iPhone. Gutemberg was quoted “We will need to update our engine to run off the the official Apple SDK when made available. Until then we will continue to use the community based SDK and just cross our fingers that Apple will appreciate what we are doing for their mobile platform.”
About LivingArcana.com:
LivingArcana.com is a community based free MMORPG (Multi Massive Online Role Playing Game). It is different from traditional MMO’s because the game is being designed (by the community) to be played in real life using GPS to track where the player’s location is and allow them to interact with the environment or other players using their internet enabled mobile device. LivingArcana.com’s mission is to free game players from their couch and computer chairs and to get them outside and participating in real life adventures and treasure hunts. Any player can add content to the game in their local area which will provide players with a rich unending game play experience.
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Indiagames Announces Plans to Develop Next Generation Mobile 3D BREW Games at the BREW 2005 Developers Conference – India
(PRWEB) October 28, 2005
Indiagames, a global leader in mobile entertainment content, today announced that the company is developing its latest next-generation mobile 3D games for QUALCOMM’s BREW solution. These 3D BREW games will be optimized for QUALCOMM’s Mobile Station Modem™ (MSM™) Enhanced Multimedia Platform chipsets, including the MSM6550™ and MSM6275™. Indiagames will be featuring its new titles, Bruce Lee – Iron Fist 3D and Ashoka at the BREW 2005 Developers Conference – India being held October 26-27 at the Grand Hyatt in Mumbai.
As a testament to its success to date, Indiagames has surpassed more than one million BREW downloads, effective as of September 2005.
Indiagames is dedicated to bringing high-quality games based on widely recognizable brands worldwide. Indiagames has the development and publishing rights to various brands, including Bruce Lee, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Jurassic Park, Predator, The Scorpion King, Godzilla, Spy Kids, The Phantom and many more. Indiagames plans to leverage the strength of these brands with high-quality development of mobile 3D games for the worldwide market.
The BREW 3D games Indiagames plans to develop are:
Bruce Lee – Iron Fist 3D: Bruce Lee is back in this hard-hitting 3D fighting game. Indiagames will create a 3D fighting game based on martial arts icon, Bruce Lee. The salability of the Bruce Lee brand combined with martial arts fighting, as well as high-end 3D graphics will make sure this is a sure fire hit in the hands of the consumer.
Ashoka: Ashoka is intended to be a cross-platform, current-generation, third-person, action/adventure game. Indiagames will focus primarily on porting the demo level of Ashoka onto QUALCOMM’s Enhanced Platform chipsets. Since this is intended to be a cross-platform game, Indiagames has gone to great lengths to ensure a consistent gameplay experience via console and cell phone. This will allow users to experience multi-platform play, in which a player might be able to play the game on the mobile phone, save game data and continue from where he left off on his console.
“We are pleased to be developing games for QUALCOMM’s superior 3D mobile platform,” said Vishal Gondal, CEO Indiagames Ltd. “The BREW solution’s flexibility and scalability has enabled us to create innovative wireless applications that continue to advance the realm of mobile games.”
QUALCOMM’s industry-leading MSM Enhanced Multimedia Platform chipset solutions provide hardware accelerated support for industry-standard OpenGL® ES 3D APIs integrated into a single chip solution, enabling cost-effective, fully featured, high-performance 3D games for 3G CDMA2000® and WCDMA devices.
“QUALCOMM is pleased to be working with publishers and developers like Indiagames who consistently push wireless gaming forward by bringing branded content to the 3D gaming space,” said Vishal Gupta, director of product technologies for QUALCOMM India. “The strength of the BREW solution lies in its ability to allow developers to focus on what they do best – the creation of advanced wireless content for mobile consumers worldwide.”
QUALCOMM’s BREW solution is designed to meet the distinct and varied needs of wireless operators, handset manufacturers, publishers, developers and end users around the world. BREW products and services include: an open, extensible client platform that supports robust system and application software including personalized and branded user interfaces for mass market devices; a J2EE™-based, modular delivery system that enables the distribution of content, applications and user interfaces to wireless devices across all air interfaces; a dedicated professional services team that supports the integration of customized implementations; and the wireless industry’s first global marketplace to support the monetization of applications and services developed in all programming languages. The BREW solution can make the wireless visions of innovative companies a reality.
About Indiagames Ltd.
Indiagames Ltd. is one of the leading global mobile content publishers. Indiagames is engaged in publishing and developing games across various platforms like Internet, PC, broadband, mobile phones, PDAs, handheld gaming devices and consoles. Indiagames products are published across leading platforms like Java™, BREW?, I-Mode™, Flash Lite™ and Symbian™. Indiagames has its distribution partnerships across the globe with major mobile operators across the world. Indiagames develops games across various wireless platforms like BREW, J2ME, and I-Mode & Symbian.
Indiagames’ key investors includes TOM Online Inc. (Nasdaq: TOMO; HK GEM stock code: 8282) which is a leading wireless Internet company in China providing value-added multimedia products and services, Macromedia, Inc. (Nasdaq: MACR), and Cisco Systems, Inc.
QUALCOMM and BREW are registered trademarks of QUALCOMM Incorporated. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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Alfamation Announces PXI-based Products for HD and 3D TV LVDS Applications
Austin, TX (PRWEB) August 3, 2010
Alfamation today released two new PXI-based modules for high speed video test applications – the FlexMedia VA-01 High-Definition LVDS Video Analyzer and VG – 01 HD Video Generator. Based on the NI FlexRIO product family from National Instruments, which provides flexible, customizable I/O for NI LabVIEW FPGA, the new FlexMedia V Series modules offer a high-performance, high-throughput approach for increasingly complex video test applications.
“With the evolution of flat screen display technology to high-definition and 3D TV, engineers face the increasing challenge of rapidly and accurately testing complex devices with high-resolution, deep colors, and higher frame rates,” said Mauro Arigossi, President of Alfamation. “The FlexMedia V-Series video test modules can perform tests at rates above 20 Gb/s on 3D and high-definition TVs and computer monitor mainboards, allowing electronics manufacturers to drastically reduce their test time while continuing to deliver a high quality end product.”
The FlexMedia VA-01Video Analyzer features high-speed LVDS acquisition for Full HD video pixel error analysis.It can test up to eight HDTVs simultaneously with a 1080p@240Hz single source test, including the latest 4Kx2K superwide displays. The VA-01 is based on NI FlexRIO FPGA modules that feature PXI and PXI Express devices with Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs, onboard DRAM, high-performance NI application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), and an interface to NI FlexRIO adapter modules that provide I/O to the FPGA.
“The new FlexMedia VA-01 addresses a critical need for video display test by helping customers integrate real-time video processing into high volume production without the need for custom, home-grown solutions,” said Michael Schneider, Market Development Manager at National Instruments. “The VA-01 is a great example of how Alfamation uses the high-throughput capabilities of PXI Express and the high-end processing power of NI FlexRIO to deliver cost effective solutions for automated video testing.”
In addition to real–time, multiple UUT parallel processing capabilities, the VA-01 module’s compact and robust single-slot PXI design saves cost and fixture space. The FlexMedia VA-01 test instrument also features:
-HDTV image capture and real-time compare
-Real-time bit error test and pixel error test over noisy video
-Up to 1080p at 240Hz or 4Kx2K @60Hz
-Up to 30-bit color depth
-Up to 8 LVDS channels
-NI LabVIEW libraries for easy software integration
Working in tandem with the VA-01 HD video analyzer is the VG-01 HD video generator, which offers high quality video generation over composite, components, and digital interfaces, featuring:
-Up to 1080p@30Hz/48bit color ,1080p@60Hz /36 bit color
-3D , HEC and ARC support
-CEC,DDC & Content Type bits transmission
-Encoded,unencoded and PCM audio support
-YPbPr,RGB,RGBS,YC,CVBS analog video outputs
-PAL/NTSC and HDTV up to 1080p@60Hz
-Six channels video matrix
-Up to UXGA @75Hz support with EDID
-30 bit RGB color depth
The combination of the VA-01 and VG-01 modules provide a comprehensive, high performance, low footprint solution for high definition and 3D screens. For more information on the FlexMedia V-Series, readers can visit www.alfamationglobal.com.
About Alfamation
Alfamation (http://www.alfamationglobal.com) is a global provider of functional test products and solutions for the automotive, consumer electronics, telecom and medical industries. Alfamation challenges the traditional approach to functional test with technology innovations that address the test needs of continually changing markets, empowering today’s manufacturing teams to manage and run sophisticated and rigorous functional tests, without the high costs and set up time of traditional systems. With over twenty years of experience, Alfamation is a preferred vendor of test engineers at the world’s top companies, including Philips group, Pirelli group, Fiat group, Boston Scientific, Caterpillar, and Harman Becker. Alfamation has been a leading National Instruments partner since 2000, serving as one of only eight Select Partners globally.
About National Instruments
National Instruments (www.ni.com) is transforming the way engineers and scientists design, prototype and deploy systems for measurement, automation and embedded applications. NI empowers customers with off-the-shelf software such as NI LabVIEW and modular cost-effective hardware, and sells to a broad base of more than 30,000 different companies worldwide, with no one customer representing more than 3 percent of revenue and no one industry representing more than 15 percent of revenue. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 5,000 employees and direct operations in more than 40 countries. For the past 11 years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.
VA-01 is a trademark of Alfamation in the U.S. and other countries.
National Instruments, NI, ni.com and NI FlexRIO are trademarks of National Instruments. Other product and company names listed are trademarks or trade names of their respective companies.
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Lattice3D Announces Record Quarter and Over 30% Sequential Growth
LOS ALTOS, CA (PRWEB) July 13, 2005
Lattice3D, the leader in 3D Publishing and Communications, today announced that its second quarter sales in 2005 achieved a landmark level, growing sequentially by more than 30% over Q1 and more than tripling 2004 Q2 revenues. The company added prestigious customers in all its target markets Â? new customers in defense, aerospace and automotive industries including three Boeing Divisions, not previously Lattice3D customers and Mid-Western Aircraft, SEI, Seidenader, Heller and two additional Toyota companies.
Lattice3D develops and markets leading 3D Communication and Publishing applications on a robust platform to enable the rapid use of 3D data assets downstream of design. 3D CAD models and designs can be used directly in print and online user and employee manuals, parts lists, maintenance instructions, assembly instructions, IETMs and more.
“Q2 was a repeat of Q1 both in year over year and sequential growth. The 3D Publishing Market is growing well and Lattice3D is gaining market share,” said Alexander Garcia-Tobar, CEO, Lattice3D. “We are proud and delighted that our customers recognize the powerful combination of our ultra-compressed 3D XVL format, our 3D publishing applications, and our robust backend integration platform capabilities.It’s satisfying to see a balanced mix of significant new customers and substantial repeat business from existing customers – this bodes well for Lattice3D’s continued future growth.”
The 3D publishing market is quickly gaining momentum and is becoming a valuable and necessary addition to design and manufacturing processes. 3D publishing and communications solutions enable the rapid re-use of 3D CAD data for 3D design review, 3D parts lists, 3D technical documentation, 3D training materials, 3D manufacturing communications, 3D web sites and more.
“The accelerating adoption of XVL by Fortune 500 companies is introducing Lattice3D and its resellers to the partners and supply chains of those companies. As a result Lattice3D resellers, most recently Tedopres, Xeltec and Acadis, are rapidly expanding sales in North America, Europe and Asia,” said Jeff Drust, VP business development, marketing and channels, Lattice3D. “And XVL integrations, most recently with CoCreate, ImpactXoft and WebSphere, are facilitating ’3D Everywhere’® to drive better innovation, collaboration and communication in any application that could use 3D data. Bottom-line, XVL is the ultra-compressed 3D format of choice.”
For more information on Lattice3D solutions and products, visit www.lattice3d.com.
About Lattice3D
With over 250,000 users at over 2,000 companies, Lattice3D’s software enables customers to extend their existing 2D and 3D data beyond engineering and into the all aspects of their enterprise Â? ’3D Everywhere’. Lattice3D’s applications publish interactive 3D documents; printed, digital or web documents directly from CAD drawings and its unmatched compression ensures the documents are easy to transfer or share for communication and collaboration. These award-winning solutions increase productivity, improve processes and lower costs by enabling rapid re-use of 3D CAD data for design review, parts lists, procurement, tech documents, training materials, communications, assembly process definition, quality assurance, packaging design, web sites and more.
The company is part of a privately-held group founded in 1997 and headquartered in Silicon Valley and Tokyo. For more information, visit www.lattice3d.com.
Lattice3D, XVL and 3D Everywhere are registered trademarks of Lattice3D. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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3D3 Solutions Announces Breakthrough Academic Pricing for 3D Scanner FlexScan3D
Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) February 14, 2007
3D3 Solutions announces the availability of the FlexScan3D Academic Licensing Pricing for universities, colleges and teaching institutions worldwide. This special promotion allows educators to license an entire lab or department with the FlexScan3D Scanning Platform, giving educators access to a professional-grade 3D Scanner application at an exceptionally low cost of 9. Schools can also purchase 5, 10 and 15 user packs at additional savings so that all the students can have access to the scanning capabilities of FlexScan3D inside the classroom.
As part of this promotion, 3D3 Solutions is offering individual FlexScan3D Student licenses for just 9. This license is independent of licenses issued to the school, which means that students can purchase their own license for personal use. For the first time, students can have access to a commercial grade scanner at a price that they can afford.
Professors, students and researchers use FlexScan3D to quickly capture objects to create a 3D digital model for use in a variety of disciplines including engineering, research & development, architectural reconstruction, medical and dental reconstruction, games, art, and other applications. FlexScan3D acts as the core system to gather and capture objects in 3D space for further processing in downstream applications. FlexScan3D enables users to connect virtually any Digital SLR Camera and Standard video projector to capture 3D representations quickly and accurately.
The FlexScan3D Academic Licensing and Student Personal Editions are available worldwide from 3D3 Solutions and Reverse Modeling, it’s US reseller. For more detailed pricing information and to learn more about the innovative FlexScan3D scanner, please visit http://www.3d3solutions.com or call 800-732-6010 in North America.
About 3D3 Solutions
3D3 Solutions is the developer of FlexScan3D, a 3D scanner that lets anyone capture digital 3d models directly from physical objects in seconds. 3D3 Solutions’ novel approach to 3D scanning makes it an attractive option for those who have been looking for a powerful and cost effective 3D scanning solution. To find out more about how 3D3 Solutions can meet your digitalizing needs, visit http://www.3d3Solutions.com
About Reverse Modeling
Reverse Modeling, based in Los Angeles, CA, provides a suite of 3D scanning hardware, software and services to solve complex modeling problems. We specialize in the conversion of physical objects into 3D computer models. 3D scanning is widely used in the reproduction of architectural artifacts, pre and post medical and dental reconstruction, reverse engineering, legacy data update, quality inspection, rapid prototyping, animation, and various other applications. To learn more about Reverse Modeling, and to find pricing information please visit the company’s website at http://www.reversemodeling.com
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3-D Underwater Graphics, LLC Announces 3M to Create Specialty Adhesive for Swimming Pools
Orlando, FL (PRWEB) May 9, 2006
Geoff Ficke, President of Duquesa Marketing, Inc., managing consultants for the 3-D Underwater Graphics project, announced today that 3M has undertaken development of a specialty adhesive that will provide solid underwater adhesion for plastics. 3-D Underwater Graphics owns a patented process for viewing stylized poster art utilizing 3-D glasses.
Mr. Ficke said, “We have tested available compounds and they were satisfactory. However, the underwater art that will embellish the walls of swimming pounds will be exposed to added abuse from swimmers, UV rays and pool chemicals. We want an adhesion that will absolutely last through a full seasons use”.
Duquesa Marketing has hired Harrington Product Development, Cincinnati, to assist 3-D Underwater Graphics with technical aspects of product engineering. Harrington has collaborated with 3M in the past in creating specialty glues and adhesives necessary for unusual applications.
Jeff Kaehr, owner of 3-D Underwater Graphics said, “The progress made to date has been amazing. Technical issues have always been compounded by the confluence of pool wall variety: plastic, underwater adhesion, and chemicals. That is a difficult mix, and the plastic posters must be easily removable. Adding 3M to the team is great news.”
3-D Underwater Graphics owns patents that cover placement and viewing of stylized underwater art utilizing 3-d glasses. The Company is developing multiple series of plastic posters to add exciting art and color to swimming pools.
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Go2Productions USA, Experienced 3D Animation and Stereoscopic Animation Production Company, Announces Open House to Marketing Professionals and Advertising Agencies
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) January 13, 2010
Go2Productions USA (Go2ProductionsUSA.com), an experience 3D animation and stereoscopic animation production company, will be hosting an Open House at their offices on the Miracle Mile in Los Angeles on Friday, February 23, 2010.
This “Invitation Only” event will be an opportunity for advertising agencies, marketing executives and accredited attendees from the 2010 CES show in Las Vegas to see some of the 3D animation and stereoscopic animation Go2Productions USA has produced, discuss unique creative ideas for agency clients, and preview a television screen that does not require the viewer to wear 3D glasses to see steroscopic 3D effects.
“We were very surprised to see all the major TV manufacturers starting out with TV’s that require special glasses when it is so clear the maximum acceptance level by consumers will happen when the screen does not require 3D glasses. The screen we are previewing at our Open House is nothing short of incredible and does not require 3D glasses. When produced correctly, the content comes several feet out of the screen. This gives it tremendous appeal to venues wishing to add a lot of excitement for its visitors such as Casinos, Hotels, Bowling Alleys and companies who want a ton of foot traffic through their booth at trade shows,” says Mike Bremner, Senior Vice President of Go2Productions USA.
“There are a lot of companies who can produce nice 3D graphics but, it takes a special skill and mind set to produce good 3D Stereoscopic content and stand out from the rest. This Open House will help Marketing Leaders and Ad Agencies see that and also come away with some good ideas for their clients,” Bremner continues.
For more information about the event and how to be placed on the guest list, contact Go2Productions USA at their offices on the Miracle Mile in Los Angeles at 323.286.1695.
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