SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Immersion Corporation (NASDAQ:IMMR), a leading developer and licensor of touch feedback technology, today announced the first applications designed by third-party developers which incorporate haptic effects by using Immersion’s recently announced MOTIV SDK.
The MOTIV™ SDK provides easy-to-use tools for developers to integrate haptic effects into Android applications. While Android handsets and tablets offer a range of haptic experiences, Immersion’s MOTIV platform ensures that touch effects are optimized based on each device’s underlying technology and control software.
“What impressed me about the MOTIV platform was the user experience,” explains Ezra Smith of FridgeCat Software. “With Immersion’s UHL tool, the phone isn’t just buzzing at our users, the phone actually feels like a ball is colliding with an obstacle. And what also makes it easy is that the tools behave consistently across Android devices, so I don’t have to spend time fine-tuning the experience. I can maintain the same degree of realism across different phones.”
Neil Wilkinson at Measured Software agrees. “I’ve worked to incorporate haptics into my apps in the past, and the tools Immersion has provided have really expanded not only the quality of feedback available but also the number of devices that are supported.”
Currently available on the Android Market are a number of applications that utilize the MOTIV SDK, including:
- Antigen by Battery Powered Games – an attack-oriented puzzle game
- aTilt 3D Labyrinth and aTilt 3D Labyrinth Free by FridgeCat Software – a labyrinth-style maze game
- Beats, Advanced Rhythm by Keripo – advanced music-based rhythm game for Android
- Deadly Chambers, Deadly Chambers HD and Deadly Chambers Free by Battery Powered Games – an over-the-shoulder shooter
- DiceShaker D&D, DiceShaker 3D and DiceShaker 3D Free by Pallosalama – dice roller applications with beautiful graphics and advanced physics engine
- Enzo’s Pinball by Haptify, Inc – engaging pinball action
- Galataxi and Galataxi Lite by Measured Software – a space taxi adventure
- Hextacy and Hextacy Lite by Magnus Lorentzon - a hex-based color matching puzzle game
- Solo & Solo Lite by Coding Caveman – Android’s most popular virtual guitars
“We’re thrilled with the Android development community’s eagerness to adopt the Immersion MOTIV SDK. We continue to invest in our developer relations program to ensure that the community has the support and tools needed to develop quality haptic experiences for their applications,” explains Dennis Sheehan, vice president of marketing for Immersion. “Most importantly, we’re excited to see how developers immediately connect with our technology and see the possibility of how touch effects can enhance mobile apps. We look forward to helping mobile developers innovate as they experiment with our technology.”
To learn more about these applications and the Immersion MOTIV SDK for Android, visit http://bit.ly/MOTIV_Apps
About Immersion (www.immersion.com)
Founded in 1993, Immersion (NASDAQ:IMMR) is the leading innovator in haptics technology; the company's touch feedback solutions deliver a more compelling sense of the digital world. Using Immersion's high-fidelity haptic systems, partners can transform user experiences with unique and customizable touch feedback effects; excite the senses in games, videos and music; restore "mechanical" feel by providing intuitive and unmistakable confirmation; improve safety by overcoming distractions while driving or performing a medical procedure; and expand usability when audio and visual feedback are ineffective. Immersion's TouchSense technology provides haptics in mobile phone, automotive, gaming, medical and consumer electronics products from world-class companies. With over 1,000 issued or pending patents in the U.S. and other countries, Immersion helps bring the digital universe to life.
Immersion, the Immersion logo, MOTIV, TouchSense and Haptify are trademarks of Immersion Corporation in the United States and other countries.
Forward-looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that, if they never materialize or prove incorrect, could cause the results of Immersion Corporation and its consolidated subsidiaries to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.
All statements, other than the statements of historical fact, are statements that may be deemed forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, the statement that we continue to invest in our developer relations program to ensure that the community has the support and tools needed to develop quality haptic experiences for their applications.
Immersion's actual results might differ materially from those stated or implied by such forward-looking statements due to risks and uncertainties associated with Immersion's business, which include, but are not limited to, the effects of the current macroeconomic climate; delay in or failure to achieve commercial demand for haptified games or other Immersion products, or third party products incorporating Immersion's technologies; and unanticipated difficulties and challenges encountered in product development efforts involving Immersion’s products (including the MOTIV SDK) and Immersion’s licensees. Many of these risks and uncertainties are beyond the control of Immersion.
For a more detailed discussion of these factors, and other factors that could cause actual results to vary materially, interested parties should review the risk factors listed in Immersion's most current Form 10-Q and Form 10-K, which are on file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements in this press release reflect Immersion's beliefs and predictions as of the date of this release. Immersion disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements as a result of financial, business, or any other developments occurring after the date of this release.
The use of the word "partner" or "partnership" in this press release does not mean a legal partner or legal partnership.
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