Hybrid Graphics

Hybrid Graphics

Hybrid Graphics Ltd., often "Hybrid", was a graphics software technology company active from 1994 to 2007 in Helsinki, Finland. Acquired by NVIDIA in 2006NVIDIA press release: [http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_30518.html "NVIDIA Corporation to Acquire Hybrid Graphics"] ] , Hybrid Graphics is now NVIDIA Corporation's Helsinki office.

Company history

Until the year 2000, Hybrid was widely knownIn article: W3D ("Westwood 3D")] for its middleware solutions for computer games. Hybrid's other business sector was image-making using 3D graphics, this operation was spun off in 2004 as Fake Graphics Ltd. The company's most important product of that time was the OpenGL based graphics library SurRender 3D (1996-2000). In 2000 Hybrid launched the dPVS (dynamic Potentially Visible Set) visibility optimization middleware that is used in many MMORPGs, including Star Wars Galaxies or EverQuest IIRPGVault's [http://rpgvault.ign.com/articles/521/521504p2.html "interview with EverQuest Lead Programmer Jamey Ryan"] ] . In 2006 the dPVS technology was acquired by Umbra Software Ltd. Umbra Software press release: [http://www.umbra.fi/index.php?company&news=3"Umbra Software acquires dPVS"] ] .

Hybrid Graphics provided the first commercial implementations of the OpenGL ES Khronos Group press release: [http://www.khronos.org/news/press/Releases/hybrid-feb-17-04.html "Hybrid Graphics Delivers World’s First OpenGL ES implementation"] ] and OpenVG Khronos Group: [http://www.khronos.org/developers/resources/openvg/ "OpenVG Implementations, Tutorials and Sample Code"] ] mobile graphics APIs, and was actively involved in the development of the M3G (JSR 184) Java standard, in the context of the Khronos Group and Java Community Process, respectively. Hybrid also sponsored Helsinki University of Technology's [http://www.tml.tkk.fi/Research/3Dr/index.html Computer Graphics Group] ] academic researchHybrid's [http://www.hybrid.fi/main/research/papers.php list of published research] ] on computer graphics, including multiple papers published in SIGGRAPH.

References

External links

* [http://www.hybrid.fi Hybrid Graphics Ltd.]


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