Declarative 3D: Community Group Leads Real-time 3D + Web Rationalization

Mountain View, CA (PRWEB) August 08, 2011

The Web3D Consortium has joined forces with the W3C and Khronos standards organizations to launch a new open Community Group chartered to examine the requirements, options, and use cases for an integration of interactive 3D graphics capabilities into the W3C technology stack. While imperative graphics APIs are powerful and necessary , a Declarative 3D description can provide web authors an easy way to add interactive high-level declarative 3D objects through the HTML Document Object Model (DOM). For example, this description should support web authors to easily create, share, and experience interactive 3D graphics using Javascript and HTML documents. The community group was launched with a meeting at the annual ACM Web3D Conference 2011 in Paris, France.

Platforms for 3D delivery over the web have been evolving for almost two decades. Recent developments such as the HTML5 canvas tag and WebGL open up a huge new audience and channel for interactive 3D since no plug-in is required to visualize complex 3D data and build rich 3D-enabled web applications. Throughout the development of HTML5, the Web3D Consortium provided key input regarding motivation, goals and examples of how the ISO standard X3D scenegraph can be integrated with the DOM.

X3D DOM (http://www.x3dom.org), developed by Fraunhofer IGD, is one such open-source solution leveraging the existing ISO standard of Extensible 3D (X3D) with the W3C DOM and WebGL. The release of X3DOM 1.2 will be showcased though demos in the Web3D Consortium Booth (# 814) including features like Flash integration as well as new developments in an asymmetric data approach to support large data-sets in declarative 3D scenes. In addition X3DOM content and examples will be presented at several BOFs including WebGL and the X3D/HTML5 BOF.

SIGGRAPH Event Schedule

Join the Web3D community at their Tech Talk (Wednesday Aug 10 from 5:00 6:00 PM) showcasing their incredible X3D innovations you wont believe its real time! Come network with leading Web3D technologists at the Tech Talk and join the revolution! This is a must-attend event to educate and engage yourself in the latest 3D Web developments. In addition, Birds of the Feather sessions at SIGGRAPH include: X3D and HTML5, Medical Visualization, Augmented and Mixed Reality, a Consortium Town Hall meeting, and a meeting of the Web3D C Korean Chapter. More information on all the Web3D Consortium events at SIGGRAPH 2011 is available at: http://www.web3d.org/events/details/web3d-at-siggraph-2011.

About the Web3D Consortium:

The Web3D Consortium is a member-driven organization involved in many technical initiatives across the 4D value chain. The Web3D Consortium is a member-funded industry consortium committed to the creation and deployment of open, royalty-free standards that enable the communication of real-time 3D across applications, networks, and XML web services. The Consortium works closely with the ISO, MPEG and has active projects with OGC, DICOM, IMS, KHRONOS and W3C standardization bodies to maximize market opportunities for its membership. More information on Web3D and Consortium membership is available at http://www.web3d.org.

Contact Information:

Anita Havele, Executive Director

Web3D Consortium 650 Castro Street, Suite #120-490, Mountain View, CA 94041

Phone: 248 342 7662 Fax: 248 457 8018

Email: anita dot havele at web3d dot org

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Flurry Raises $7 Million Series B to Accelerate Mobile Analytics Firm's Rapid Growth - InterWest Partners leads round of financing

San Francisco and New York (PRWEB) January 12, 2010

Flurry, Inc., a leading mobile application analytics provider, today announced it has closed a Series B financing round of $ 7 million. Led by top-tier venture capital firm InterWest Partners, the round included existing investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Union Square Ventures, First Round Capital and Draper Richards.

InterWest general partner, Doug Pepper, also joins the Flurry board of directors. In addition to a decade of technology investment experience focused on digital marketing and advertising, Mr. Pepper brings board level experience with relevant companies including Marketo, INVIDI Technologies, Brand.net and Offerpal Media, as well as professional experience with Amazon.com.

Since launching its service in January 2009, Flurry has quickly emerged as one of the worlds largest mobile application analytics and monetization platforms. The company now tracks over one billion end user application sessions per month across iPhone, iPod Touch and Android devices. Over 15,000 developers have chosen to integrate Flurry Analytics within their applications, which have been downloaded to more than 80% of all iPhone, iPod Touch and Android devices.

Smartphone application download growth is skyrocketing like nothing in recent consumer tech history, dwarfing even early Internet adoption, said Flurry chief executive officer, Simon Khalaf. With its significant reach, Flurry is positioned to play a significant role in leveraging the measurement of consumer behavior to accelerate the sale of applications and virtual goods.

The financing will be used to aggressively build out new services that increase application developer revenue, hire new employees and scale its infrastructure. Flurry AppCircle, currently in private beta, is the first of a series of revenue generating services designed to use data to intelligently target consumers and increase sales in the App Store.

Flurry has built one of the industrys most widely deployed and powerful tools for measuring and monetizing mobile application usage, said Doug Pepper, general partner, InterWest Partners. "This is an exciting time of innovation and growth for the mobile industry and we're thrilled to be involved with the passionate and experienced team at Flurry.

With Apples announcement last week that more than three billion apps have been downloaded, the App Store is growing at a rate 15 times faster than the iTunes store over the same time period. Piper Jaffray senior analyst, Gene Munster forecasts that Apple will sell an additional 36 million iPhones in 2010, a 40 percent increase from 2009 estimates. Additionally, more than 50 Android handsets, including the recently launched Google Nexus One, are expected to ship in 2010. Looking forward, Frost & Sullivan forecasts that Android OS devices will hold the third largest market share of the smartphone market by 2014, among the fastest rates of growth for a mobile product in the history of the mobile industry.

To learn more about the Flurry Analytics and Flurry AppCircle, please visit http://www.flurry.com.

About Flurry

Recently merged with Pinch Media, Flurry is among the largest smartphone application analytics and monetization platforms in the world, now tracking more than 80% of all consumers across iPhone, iPod Touch and Android devices. Each month, Flurry tracks over one billion end user sessions per month across iPhone, Android, Blackberry and J2ME devices.

Flurry Analytics, its flagship service, is designed to help developers make better applications to increase retention and grow revenue. Flurry AppCircle, now in private beta, is designed to help developers acquire the most valuable users, faster and for less money. Flurry is venture backed with offices in San Francisco and New York. For more information, please visit http://www.flurry.com.

About InterWest Partners

For 30 years InterWest (http://www.interwest.com) has partnered with exceptional entrepreneurs to build winning technology and life sciences companies. With more than 200 years of combined operating and investing experience, InterWests team has raised $ 2.8B, completed more than 70 IPOs, and participated in nearly 60 upside acquisitions. As the firm invests InterWest X, a $ 650M fund, InterWest continues to believe that providing capital is just the beginning of a long-term collaboration with entrepreneurs to turn their vision into a thriving company.

The firm's past successful investments in information technology include: CIENA (CIEN), Copper Mountain Networks (CMTN), Crystal Semiconductor (acquired by Cirrus Logic, CRUS), Cyrix (CYRX; acquired by National Semiconductor (NSM), Lightera (acquired by CIENA), PlaceWare (acquired by Microsoft, MSFT), SiTera (acquired by Vitesse, VTSS), Silicon Graphics (SGI), Stratacom (STRM; acquired by Cisco, CSCO) and Xilinx (XLNX).

Note to Editors

iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and J2ME are trademarks of their respective companies. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the companies with which they are associated.

Media contact:

Peter Farago

VP Marketing

Flurry, Inc.

peter(at)flurry(dot)com

510-461-4450

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