Alliance ProMotion Family Now Supports StereoGraphics SimulEyes VR 3D Eyewear; High-Performance 3D Graphics on Home PC Made Possible by ProMotion.SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 1996--Alliance Semiconductor Corporation announced today that its ProMotion graphics and video accelerators will support StereoGraphics Corporation's latest stereo vision eyewear product, SimulEyes VR for multimedia programs and games on home PCs. Alliance now provides a reference design for a ProMotion-based Multimedia User Interface (MMUI MMUI Multi Modal Paradigm User Interface ) adapter card with direct support for StereoGraphics eyewear. In addition, SimulEyes VR-ready ProMotion accelerators are sampling now to OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and graphics hardware suppliers. SimulEyes VR stereo vision eyewear transforms home multimedia PCs into stunningly realistic 3D environments with eye-catching visual effects by adding true depth perception for game play. SimulEyes VR eyewear fits over most glasses for maximum comfort, weighs only a few ounces and is simple to install. While SimulEyes VR is designed to operate with a variety of different graphics accelerators, the direct-connect reference design will allow a ProMotion and SimulEyes VR combination to be less expensive than one based on an ordinary graphics controller. "The movement in the PC graphics industry to integrate stereo vision support in silicon will facilitate unparalleled realism in 3D games and multimedia software at an affordable consumer price," said Dick Martin, StereoGraphics' president 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. . "Alliance's feature-rich ProMotion accelerator family with built-in SimulEyes VR support will help establish stereovision ster·e·o·vi·sion n. Visual perception of or exhibition in three dimensions. as a mainstream feature in PC systems." "Graphics adapters which combine Alliance's ProMotion acceleration with the SimulEyes VR system will make for stunning stereo vision 3D gaming on standard PCs," said Sid Agrawal, Alliance's vice president of marketing. "ProMotion's high-performance, low-cost graphics and game acceleration is an ideal partner to StereoGraphics' 3D eyewear." ProMotion Graphics and Video Accelerators Alliance's ProMotion family of graphics and video controllers are high-performance, integrated Windows accelerators with built-in hardware acceleration for MPEG-1 motion video playback and scaling. ProMotion controllers are designed to seamlessly accelerate graphics and multimedia applications under Windows 95, Windows 3.x and other operating environments. ProMotion controllers support high resolutions and refresh rates for displays of up to 16.7 million colors. They feature PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). Local Bus host interface, and support for 1 to 4 megabytes of DRAM memory. Even with only 1 megabyte of display memory, ProMotion controllers can accelerate full-screen, 1024x768x8-bit or 800x600x16-bit graphics and motion video playback. StereoGraphics Corporation, founded in 1980, pioneered and developed the market for modern stereoscopic stereoscopic /ster·eo·scop·ic/ (ster?e-o-skop´ik) having the effect of a stereoscope; giving objects a solid or three-dimensional appearance. ster·e·o·scop·ic n. 1. imaging equipment and is the world leader in sales of electro-stereoscopic shuttering eyewear. CrystalEyes, StereoGraphics' flagship product, has an installed base of over 20,000 users in scientific visualization, GIS/mapping, molecular modeling, CAD/CAM CAD/CAM in full computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing. Integration of design and manufacturing into a system under direct control of digital computers. , and commercial presentation. With new SimulEyes VR, the company now offers affordable stereo-vision eyewear for home PC game, multimedia, and edutainment markets as well. StereoGraphics is located at 2171 E. Francisco Blvd., San Rafael, CA 94901. Alliance Semiconductor Corporation, based in San Jose, Calif., is a leading supplier of high-performance memory products and memory-intensive logic products. The company designs, develops, manufactures (using advanced 0.6 micron and below CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. technology) and markets its high-performance memory, and memory-intensive logic products to the desktop and portable computing, networking, telecommunications and instrumentation markets. The company's common stock is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol ALSC ALSC Association for Library Service to Children ALSC Adirondack Lakes Survey Corporation ALSC Afloat Logistics and Sealift Capability ALSC American Lumber Standards Committee, Inc. ALSC Advanced Logistics Systems Center (AFMC) . CONTACT: Alliance Semiconductor Spencer Greene, 408/383-4900 sgreene@nimbus nimbus, in art nimbus (nĭm`bəs), in art, the luminous disk or circle or other indication of light around the head of a sacred personage. .com or Wuthman Associates for StereoGraphics Corp. Denise Whitecotton, 415/454-6599 cdwassoc@aol.com or Peak Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Mike Peak, 408/446-0407 peakpr@aol.com |
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