22 Dec 2003

Superscape Group says that following the official ratification by the Java Standards Community of JSR 184 -- to be known as the Mobile 3D Graphics API -- the company's Swerve technology is the world's first commercially available implementation of this standard for delivering rich media 3D on mobile devices.

The new award winning Mobile 3D Graphics API standard is the result of more than a year's development work by a highly experienced Expert Group of the Java community.

 

Superscape was a founder member of this Group, which also included Nokia, Vodafone, Siemens, ARM, Sony Ericsson and Motorola. Having been intimately involved in every aspect of the development of this new global standard,

 

Superscape has been ideally placed to develop a standards-compliant 3D engine, authoring tools and associated content -- branded as Swerve.

Superscape's Swerve software has been developed in close collaboration with ARM. Swerve Client (the engine) has been optimised to run on a single ARM 9 (or above) processor and can also use any available hardware acceleration on the handset using OpenGL ES.

 

It provides an elegant and cost-effective means of delivering console quality, high performance 3D applications, including games, on mass-market mobile phones.

 

Swerve Studio (the authoring tool) is a fully compliant development environment for creating console quality interactive 3D applications for wireless devices. It is based on the industry-standard design software, 3D Studio Max.

Recent agreements with Siemens, Samsung and Motorola, as well as a number of major content and brand organisations, including Sony, have provided strong endorsement of the leading position of Superscape's Swerve technology in the global mobile marketplace.

Kevin Roberts, CEO, Superscape Group plc said: "The final ratification of this standard represents a significant milestone for Superscape and the culmination of many months of highly focused development work together with other key players in the Java community.

 

The new standard -- to which our Swerve technology has been designed to be fully compliant -- will enable the over the air (OTA) delivery of console quality Java games, a sector that is predicted to account for 88.3 per cent of total mobile game sales of just below $7 billion in Europe in 2006."