TOKYO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–HI CORPORATION (Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan; President and CEO: Kazuo Kawabata)(JASDAQ:3846)(ISIN:JP3160860007) announced today that HI’s 3D rendering engine “MascotCapsule(R) eruption” has been adopted by SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. (Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan; President and Representative Director: Yoichi Wada) for their role-playing game “CHAOS RINGS(TM)” that was launched worldwide for iPad(TM) on August 12, 2010.
MascotCapsule eruption is the 3D rendering engine that was produced by combining HI’s technologies. It complies with the International standard Open GL(R) ES and features the high-speed rendering processing that maximize the capabilities of 3D hardware accelerators, the various flexible and scalable functionalities that are useful in video game development, and the graphical development tools that allow easy setup of a wide variety of representations. Beautiful high-speed graphics of the blockbuster game originally developed for iPhone(R)/iPod touch(R) has been equally reproduced on the more powerful and high-resolution large screen of iPad.
HI will make efforts to expand the use of MascotCapsule eruption in order to be used for more content development as well as to promote its worldwide dissemination and support.
* iPad, iPhone and iPod are trademarks or registered trademarks of Apple Inc.
* CHAOS RINGS is a trademark or a registered trademark of SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. in Japan and/or other countries.
* MascotCapsule is a registered trademark of HI CORPORATION in Japan.
* Other company names and product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of respective companies.
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[How To Obtain Software Development Kit]
To obtain the SDK for MascotCapsule eruption, you need to accept the commercial license agreement. (A license fee is required.) Please contact adinfo@hicorp.co.jp for more details.
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HI’s 3D rendering engine “MascotCapsule(R) eruption” is adopted for the worldwide release of SQUARE ENIX’s new RPG “CHAOS RINGS(TM)” for iPhone(R)/iPod(R) touch
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[About HI CORPORATION]
HI CORPORATION is a leading research and development company in middleware development for embedded devices. Its flagship product, a real-time 3D rendering engine “MascotCapsule,” has been adopted by five Japanese mobile network operators as well as by major mobile phone manufacturers for their global releases. As of the end of March 2010, MascotCapsule was shipped with more than 600 million units of mobile phones worldwide. A variety of console-quality 3D content and 3D user interfaces using MascotCapsule are widely distributed in China, Europe, Japan, South Korea, United States and more. HI will continue to actively provide MascotCapsule for electronic devices other than mobile phones. For more information, visit our website at http://www.hicorp.co.jp/english/index.html.
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