AGEIA Selected by OnHollywood as Top 100 Private Company Award Winner; Recognized for Leadership in Emerging Technology.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- AGEIA AGEIA America Germany Egypt India America (TM) Technologies, Inc., the pioneer in hardware-accelerated physics for video games See video game console. , today announced that it has been chosen by OnHollywood as one of the Top 100 Private Company award winners. The OnHollywood 100 is a power list of the top private digital media and entertainment companies. AGEIA was handpicked by the OnHollywood editorial team based on a set of five criteria -- innovation, market potential, customer adoption, media buzz and investor value creation. AGEIA and the OnHollywood 100 will be honored at the OnHollywood executive summit May 2-4 at The Roosevelt Hotel
The OnHollywood 100 was selected from over a 1,000 companies, peer-nominated by leading venture capitalists Venture Capitalist An investor who provides capital to either start-up ventures or support small companies who wish to expand but do not have access to public funding. Notes: Venture capitalists usually expect higher returns for the additional risks taken. , investment bankers and industry analysts. The OnHollywood 100 consists of private companies at all stages of development, from early to late stage. AGEIA's new PhysX(TM) processor, the first and only dedicated physics processor, delivers pervasive real-time physics to PC games for an entirely new gameplay
Gameplay includes all player experiences during the interaction with game systems, especially formal games. Proper use is coupled with reference to "what the player does". experience. With the hardware acceleration In computing, hardware acceleration is the use of hardware to perform some function faster than is possible in software running on the normal (general purpose) CPU. Examples of hardware acceleration include blitting acceleration functionality in graphics processing units (GPUs) and provided by the PhysX processor, PC games can now feature complex characters, objects and environments that fully interact with real-world, real-time properties for an unprecedented gameplay that changes every time you play the game. Now PC games will have stunning realism comparable to that created for feature films by Hollywood special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques. artists. "It is an honor to receive this prestigious award from OnHollywood," said Manju Hegde, founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of AGEIA. "The buzz around AGEIA's revolutionary physics technology has been tremendous. The highly-anticipated PhysX processor will provide unprecedented levels of action, strategy and visuals in next-generation games." A full list of all the OnHollywood 100 companies can be found on the AlwaysOn website at http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=12031. About AGEIA AGEIA(TM) Technologies, Inc., is the pioneer of hardware-accelerated physics for PC games and has developed the world's first dedicated physics processor, the AGEIA PhysX processor. The AGEIA PhysX processor powers massive and pervasive real-time interactive worlds that for the first time obey the laws of classical physics. AGEIA provides a world-class cross platform software development kit to simplify advanced physics programming for the PhysX processor, as well next-generation gaming consoles. AGEIA is changing the face of gaming by working with more than sixty leading developers and publishers to deliver the next generation of physically immersive entertainment. The company, headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is privately-held. For more information, visit www.ageia.com. About OnHollywood 2006: May 2-4 @ The Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood OnHollywood is where cutting edge technology from the backstreets Backstreets is a novel by Australian horror writer Rob Hood (Hodder Headline, 1999).It is is effectively an urban ghost story, its plot centering on a young man Kel who wakes from a coma to find that his friend Bryce is dead, and is thereafter plagued by strange dreams, which draw him to of Silicon Valley converges with Hollywood's media and entertainment elite. The two-and-a-half-day event borrows on the "film market" tradition by providing an open environment for digital media and entertainment entrepreneurs to meet the big-time studio, telco and consumer electronics executives, venture capitalists and media. OnHollywood delves into the challenges, opportunities and business models of the digital era, and showcases the most innovative private companies that are revolutionizing the way media and entertainment is created, distributed and consumed. About AlwaysOn Network AlwaysOn is transforming the communication business with its online blogging network See blog network. for technology, media and entertainment insiders, establishing it as a leader in the Open Media revolution. Borrowing from the underground traditions of blogging and social networking See social networking site. social networking - social network , AlwaysOn (http://www.alwayson-network.com/) was launched in 2003. Today, AO's annual Summit @ Stanford and OnHollywood events, print "blogozine" and online services encourage direct collaboration between global thought leaders and technology insiders. No other media brand has dared allow such openness amongst its readers and participants. AlwaysOn, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , is a privately held and virtually headquartered company born out of the heart of Silicon Valley. (c) AGEIA and PhysX are trademarks of AGEIA Technologies, Inc. PlayStation is a registered trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. All other products are trademarks of their respective companies. |
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