Rightware Announces its Flagship Product: Kanzi® UI Solution

Enabling stereoscopic 3D and taking the UI differentiation and innovation to a whole new level

Espoo, Finland & Las Vegas, NV, US – January 5, 2011 – Rightware Oy, the leader in 3D user interface (UI) technology, today announced that its flagship product, Kanzi® UI Solution, has been officially released and is available for licensing. Kanzi UI Solution is targeted to solve the implementation and differentiation problems of today’s 3D user interfaces and enable rapid design, development, testing and deployment of visually rich and intuitive 3D user interfaces in mobile, consumer and automotive devices.

Kanzi UI Solution consists of two product components: Kanzi Studio and Kanzi Engine. Kanzi Engine is an integral part of a device’s software platform, and Kanzi Studio is a standalone UI design software which enables rapid creation of innovative 3D user interfaces. Kanzi Studio works seamlessly with the leading 3D content creation tools, such as Autodesk 3DS Max, Maya and XSI and Blender. Once built, modifying and deploying UI designs to new devices and platforms can be done seamlessly and without additional engineering effort.

Stereoscopic 3D user interface rendering in mobile devices requires significant performance also from the UI engine. Given its years long work in field of graphics performance testing, Rightware has been able to optimize Kanzi Engine to make it capable to execute very complex UI designs with amazing performance. In addition to regular 2D UI technologies, Kanzi UI Solution supports stereoscopic 3D, transitions, animations, shadows, post processing effects, multi-touch, gestures and physics, that are all compatible with OpenGL ES 1.x and 2.0 open standards.

“We believe that mobile devices will be the best form factor to take stereoscopic 3D (S3D) technology to the mainstream, and we’re proud to introduce Kanzi UI Solution to tackle the user interface differentiation problems of these emerging S3D-enabled devices,” said Tero Sarkkinen, CEO of Rightware. "Stereoscopic 3D rendering technology will profoundly change the way consumers interact with and enjoy content on smart mobile devices, particularly when applied to innovative user interface (UI) designs,” said Fred Cohen, director, OMAP Wireless Ecosystem, Texas Instruments. “When combined with the right complementary solution, Texas Instruments’ OMAP™ 4 applications processor can uniquely deliver these breakthrough S3D UI experiences with the power and performance balance required by mobile form factors like Smartphones and tablets. We are pleased to work with Rightware and its Kanzi UI Solution, to help drive this capability into our customers’ hands, enabling the quick deployment of visually rich and highly customizable UIs.”

“The traditional way of creating user interfaces for embedded devices has been time-consuming, expensive, and often risky development process. With Kanzi UI Solution, device manufacturers as well as application developers can now slash the time it takes to create a UI, and provide the true-3D user interface that stands out from the masses,” stated Sarkkinen. “With stereoscopic 3D user interface, the content becomes even more crucial. We’re happy to work with our world-class UI/UX design partners, such as Fjord, to lift today’s user interfaces to a whole new level,” continued Sarkkinen. “3D is becoming a reality in embedded devices. Kanzi UI Solution is a great technology that helps Fjord implement our world-class designs rapidly,” said Christian Lindholm, Managing Partner at Fjord.

Kanzi® UI Solution

More information about Kanzi UI Solution is available at www.rightware.com/kanzi and downloadable Kanzi UI Demonstrations can be also found from Android Market: Search for Rightware.

Kanzi UI Solution provides out-of-the-box support for Android, various different Linux variants and MeeGo.

Availability and Licensing

Kanzi UI Solution is readily available and the trial version can be downloaded from the Rightware website: www.rightware.com/downloads/

If you want to see some example what Kanzi UI Solution can do, please download the demonstrations from Rightware’s website, or go to Android Market and search for Rightware.

For pricing and licensing information, please contact Rightware by emailing: sales@rightware.com

About Rightware

Rightware serves mobile, automotive and the embedded industries with their Kanzi® solution for rapid 3D user interface design and deployment. Rightware also develops industry leading system performance analysis tools. Their world renowned product portfolio includes Basemark™ product family for various benchmarking purposes. In addition, Rightware’s world-class roster of benchmark products includes 3DMark®Mobile for OpenGL ES 1.x and OpenGL ES 2.0, VGMark® for OpenVG 1.x, and SPMark® platform benchmark for Symbian, Android, Windows Mobile, Linux and mobile Java. Rightware is headquartered in Espoo, Finland and has offices in Palo Alto, CA, USA, Beijing and Shanghai in China. For more information, go to: www.rightware.com

Rightware, the Rightware logo, and Kanzi are trademarks or registered trademarks of Rightware Oy. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners.

Contact information

Sales enquiries:

sales@rightware.com

Tero Sarkkinen
Chief Executive Officer
Tel. +358-40-5577887

Ville-Veikko Helppi
Product Marketing Manager
Tel. +358-400-949001

firstname dot lastname at rightware dot com

Rightware Oy
Niittykatu 6 C
02200 Espoo Finland
Tel. +358-9-8554-322