» 2006 Press Releases
Los Angeles, California 12/29/2006
WavGen proudly unveils its TextureLoader Pro version 2.0 technology to support OSX, all flavours of Linux, and ofcourse Windows (NT,XP,Vista). Also supported are 32bit operating systems and 64bit operating systems in predicting a successful MacInstosh/Intel duo Core and quad core hardware launch early in 2007.
Los Angeles, California 09/21/2006
WavGen Incorporated completes its game pipeline technology called WavGenTC (WavGen Texture Compression) by supplying a stand alone compression engine, a photoshop plugin, a batch compression utility, and its flagship product the Texture Loader Pro. Game developers are now empowering our technology to scale 4K runtime texures into UV coordinates and colorMaps, reducing 4K HD game assets from 200MB down below 1MB with almost no loss in quality and realtime access.
San Francisco, California 08/07/2006
WavGen Incorporated and Screampoint LLC (Google Earth 3D Studio Max Plugin) discuss UV Mapping and ColorMaps as a viable technology in distributing highest quality architectural visualizations. Classical game technology UV mapping techniques including color map compression might soon be used in a variety of verticals.
Detroit, Michigan 07/27/2006
State transportation and urban planning together with two subcontracting firms adobt WavGen's AutoDesk (3D Studio Max and AutoDesk VIZ) 3D runtime pipeline for there planning and engineering efforts. Interchangeable 3ds files with our embedded wavelet file formats enable our clients the ability to run large scale visualizations.
Boston, Massachussettes 06/16/2006
WavGen Incorporated once again will attand the SIGGRAPH 2006 in Boston MA further underlining its commitment to become a staple software solution provider in the media and entertainment industries. By leveraging its experience in the geospatial and defense sectors and coupling this experience with the media and entertainment industry, WavGen will continue to dominate in highest quality 3D animation of Terrain and Mapped content.
San Diego, California 05/19/2006
Earth Resource Mapping unveils its newest line of software called ERMapper MLB Light Edition. For $1200,- a csutomer can compress unlimited file sizes into an ECW or JPEG2000 image. Support for 8bit, 16bit, and 32bit files are guaranteed as well as signed and unsigned integer support.
Century City, California 04/20/2006
WavGen's legal representatives in Century City today successfully finished defending a trademark law suite initiated by ZI Imaging for there Terrashare product and simultaneously launches its next-gen software WavGen TextureLoader Pro version 1.8.
San Jose, California 03/17/2006
WavGen Incorporated introduces it's WavGenTC (Texture Compression) software as a commercial application at the Game Developers Conference in San Jose, California. WavGenTC is poised to become an extra high resolution application pipeline to standard DXTC (Microsoft DirectX Texture Compression) and Bink Game compression technology used in UV's and Colormaps.
International 03/02/2006
WavGen Incorporated signs individual release contracts with Alias (Toronto), Autodesk (San Francisco), Newtek (Texas), and AVID (Montreal) to allow efficient use of marketing materials in trade shows and online content. Thus effecting the WavGen technology as an official companion tool to Maya, Studio Max, Lightwave, and Softimage XSI.
San Diego, California 02/17/2006
As a solution provider to Earth Resource Mapping, WavGen now allows lossless and lossy texture compression. Customers can compress unlimited file sizes and textures in 8bit, 16bit, and 32bit (signed and unsigned) formats. In addition to the compression tools, the photoshop plugins have been updated to support CS and CS2.
Paris, France 01/20/2006
WavGen delivers its software to Trimaran for the ASO international Tour de France 2006 visualizations. WavGen couples efforts with the Institute Geographique National (IGN) and re-invents its original ties with the 52 photogrammetry departments of France to offer stunning high resolution mapping services to 72 international television stations.
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