Autostereoscopic 3D Pioneer Presents Attention-Grabbing ‘No-Glasses’ Content and Hardware that Attracts Audiences and Gives a Competitive Edge

Las Vegas, NV – November 18, 2009 –Global Gaming Expo (G2E)— Alioscopy® USA, a 3D visualization technology provider, today is attending the 2009 Global Gaming Expo (G2E) in Las Vegas (November 17-19, 2009) at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Located at the Real 3D Display Booth #1281, Alioscopy will demonstrate autostereoscopic 3D content playing on a proprietary HD LCD display. The mesmerizing ‘glasses-free’ 3D depth from the immersive images produced by Alioscopy, offers one of the most unique and cost effective ways for the gaming industry to create digital signage and content that will capture audience attention and bring them in for a closer look. more

Autostereoscopic 3D Pioneer will Present ‘No-Glasses’ Content with Information About its Community-driven ‘Preferred Content Producer’ Program, ‘Template’ Program, and Interactive Content Creation Tools

San Diego, Calif. – October 15, 2009 – Alioscopy® USA, a 3D visualization technology provider, today announced it will attend the annual Boards Summit 2009 (October 26-27, 2009) at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York. Offering one of the most unique and forward-looking ways to view 3D content without glasses, Alioscopy will showcase finished autostereoscopic 3D content playing on a proprietary HD LCD display at the event. Production artists and technical directors (TDs) attending the summit will learn how to extend their advertising, digital signage, and visualization business with autostereoscopic 3D content for play-back on Alioscopy LCD displays. more

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Ready for a ‘Green’ and ‘Sustainable’-themed PC game to balance out the vehicles, sports, violence, babes, beasts, and gore?

City Rain, the new PC download ‘game-with-purpose’ began shipping this week from Ovolo Corporation, Inc. (Montréal, Québec). Created as an initial student concept project, City Rain is a puzzle and simulation game based on urban planning and sustainability. Players must rescue cities that are being ‘black listed’ from the World Environment Protection Agency (WEPA) by quickly making decisions to establish and re-organize urban developments that will make cities more sustainable and ‘green’. City Rain is available now as a free trial and for purchase at: www.ovologames.com/cityrain. The game sells for US $9.95 as a PC download, and is expected to be available soon for Xbox Live Indie Games. more

SENSIO Technologies Inc. inventor of SENSIO® 3D technology, and Sagem Communications have joined forces to premier a new 3D video solution at IBC 2009 in Amsterdam. The Sagem Communications digital set-top box, with integrated SENSIO® 3D technology, will enable consumers to view 3D content at home in full HD. This technology is being demonstrated in the Sagem Communications booth (4.A080), and is a first step towards commercial availability of the product planned for 2010. more

At IBC 2009 today, Alioscopy® USA, a 3D visualization technology provider, premiered a new User Generated Content (UGC) tools platform for its Autostereoscopic ‘No-Glasses’ LCD displays. Located at the Autodesk booth (RAI Amsterdam Booth 7.D21), Alioscopy is showing IBC show attendees how its new template-based User Generated Content platform allows its customers to create and/or edit 3D content easily on any template, adding or removing information in real-time for ‘attention-grabbing’ autostereoscopic ‘no-glasses’ 3D results. more

StudioGPU continues to democratize the 3D production space for broadcast, cinema and design with the release of MachStudio™ Pro 1.2, a real-time 3D workflow and rendering package that leverages the horsepower of off-the-shelf professional graphics processing units (GPUs) to deliver real-time and near real-time workflow performance on a desktop workstation. Now available worldwide, MachStudio Pro 1.2 includes many dynamic new features powered by the new industry-leading AMD ATI FirePro™ V8750 professional 3D workstation graphics accelerator, which is included with the program. This powerful combination of hardware and software gives 3D artists a seamless way to create and interact with cinematic-quality 3D objects and environments in a non-linear desktop workspace.

The MachStudio Pro workflow is similar to a virtual real-time 3D studio environment, allowing artists, designers, engineers, directors, and technical directors (TDs) to work with lighting, camera views and more

Kickstand LLC, an innovator of advanced character animation and custom pipeline technology, today announced the worldwide availability of StretchMesh 1.5 software for Autodesk® Maya® software. For a limited time, StretchMesh 1.5 is being offered at the introductory per-seat price of $199. more

StudioGPU announced today that MachStudio Pro™, a professional 3D-workflow and rendering package created by artists for artists, now offers free exporters for Google SketchUp Pro and McNeel Rhino 3D modeling and animation software. With these new exporters, 3D assets from SketchUp Pro 7 and Rhino 4 can easily be transferred into MachStudio Pro, where users can create and manipulate lights, materials and HDR cameras in a real-time non-linear environment to achieve cinematic-quality results. more

3D Garage.com™, a leading producer of instructional training videos for 3D modeling and digital content creation, announced today Luxology modo® 401 Signature Courseware is now available at www.3dgarage.com. The DVD, created by Dan Ablan author of the “Official Luxology modo Guide” for modo 201 and modo 301, is a comprehensive instructional video for beginning to intermediate modeling and animation using modo 401. more

Character animation research and development company Kickstand today announced new features in StretchMesh 1.5, an innovative surface deformation plug-in that streamlines the creation of realistic character animation in Autodesk® Maya® software. more