Entries for June 2008

Mobile user experience software specialist, Digital Airways, introduces Kaleido 3D, an advanced graphic rendering solution for mobile phones. Building on the Kaleido UI software solution, Kaleido 3D allows 2G and 3G handsets manufacturers to create full 3D user interfaces quickly and cost effectively.

Taking advantage of the OpenGL-ES standard, Kaleido 3D responds to handset manufacturers’ challenges in developing sophisticated 3D graphics for user interfaces and product positioning by providing a multi-platform UI framework and a library of pre-integrated customizable functions all aimed at simplifying the creation of such UIs. These functions can be used as is, or rapidly extended to create any sort of innovative animation. The solution takes full advantage of platform resources such as graphic accelerator, 2D/3D engines, as well as image codecs.

HI CORPORATION (Headquarters: Meguro-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Kazuo Kawabata hereinafter "HI" today announced that Sun Microsystems, Inc. and HI are working together to deliver mobile solutions based on the MascotCapsule 3D rendering engine. Sun and HI plan to offer HI CORPORATION's MascotCapsule 3D engine to mobile customers along with Sun's Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME) implementation.

Under terms of this agreement, HI will optimize its MascotCapsule series starting with V4 (*1) with API (*2) supporting JSR184 (*3), followed by JSR239 and JSR297 (*3).

"3D content is increasingly needed to create compelling user experiences across mobile devices. We are pleased that HI's 3D technology will be optimized for Java ME mobile graphics APIs and that Sun and HI will be able to offer this solution jointly to our customers,” said Eric Klein, vice president of Java marketing at Sun.