January 08, 2015
Stream TV Networks/for PhillyVoice
Rendered art of the Ultra-D technology in action.
Stream TV Networks, a Center City-based glasses-free 3-D TV technology company we reported on earlier this week, announced at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas that it has sent software development kits (common reference: SDKs) to major video game developers. Stream TV is currently showcasing the technology through a CES show-floor booth that's running Ultra-D-enabled demos of "Elemental," "Matinee Fight Scene," "Origins of Malu," "Northern Shadow," "Ether One," "Solus" and "Refunktion."
Stream TV Networks is working in a "strategic alliance" (according to the press release) with Epic Games, the maker of popular titles like "Gears of War" and "Unreal Tournament" and the creator of the widely used Unreal Engine, which developers use as a tool to create graphics for video games. (For example, "Final Fantasy"-maker Square Enix announced in October that its high-profile 2015 title "Kingdom Hearts III" will be produced using Epic's Unreal Engine 4.)
According to The Los Angeles Times, SuperD Technology Co., a China-based, glasses-free 3-D company that focuses on mobile 3-D, is the closest competition for Stream TV, which is headquartered at 20th and Chestnut streets.
For the moment, 3-D technology is back in the spotlight after a rough past few years of the market swinging away from its presence in the living room. (Forbes went as far as to dub 3D's flailing as "The Great 3D Fiasco" -- yikes.) Will it actually catch on, though? We'll see.
See for yourself how the company's pitching the technology to game developers.
