CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
12 May 2008
Product News
Right Hemisphere Transfers Deep Creator Product Development to Esperient Corporation
Right Hemisphere® announced that it has signed an agreement with Esperient Corporation to outsource the development, maintenance and customer support of its Deep Creator™ 3D authoring software. Esperient has already assumed sales and support responsibilities for Deep Creator and its customers, and has developed a new 3.0 version of the software available today through its e-store. As part of the agreement, Right Hemisphere will retain its interest in Deep Creator by becoming a shareholder in Esperient and by ensuring the product's tight integration with Right Hemisphere's enterprise solutions. Right Hemisphere will also continue to sell Deep Creator to its Deep Server™ enterprise customers.
Esperient was founded in October 2007 by four former Right Hemisphere employees with a distinct passion for interactive 3D visualization and simulation technology. The Esperient technical team is headed by Michael Bailey, the original architect of Deep Creator.
"All Right Hemisphere customers will be better served by this agreement with Esperient," said Michael Lynch, CEO at Right Hemisphere. "With Deep Creator back in the hands of its original development team and visionary leader, the product will move forward much faster. At the same time, our core engineering team will be able sharpen its focus on advancing our graphics management and publishing solutions. This is the classic win-win."
Announcing Esperient Creator 3.0
Right Hemisphere and Esperient began their collaboration last October when the two companies signed an Interim Licensing Agreement. Since then, Esperient has been reviewing customer feedback and incorporating that feedback into its development of a new major release of the product. The new release -- formally renamed Esperient Creator 3.0 -- is available starting today and has more than 200 new features.
Esperient Creator 3.0 software now delivers:
-- A streamlined user interface.
-- Improved support for designers working on very large resolution, multi-screen based authoring.
-- A completely revamped in-built asset browser with new support for interactive 3D material previews and drag and drop scene authoring for applying materials, meshes and objects to an interactive 3D scene.
-- Industry-leading render to texture support, including advanced real-time water with real-time reflection and refraction effects as well as real-time shadow maps and over 100 pre-built pixel and vertex shaders.
-- Extended video support so users can include streaming media in interactive 3D scenes using popular video formats such as Apple QuickTime (.mov), Microsoft® Windows Media® Video (wmv) and Adobe® Flash® Video (.flv).
-- Support for the latest Right Hemisphere importers such as Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2008, Autodesk® Maya® 2008, and Google SketchUp 6.
Esperient Creator 3.0 is available for purchase and download from the Esperient Web site at http://www.esperient.com. Esperient has also established a new Creator user forum on its Web site.
CEO of Esperient Ben Vaughan said, "We are delighted to have signed this agreement with Right Hemisphere and extremely pleased that they have decided to maintain a long term interest in Esperient. We have exciting plans for the future development of Esperient Creator. In part, this is reflected in our decision to change the license terms to an annual subscription and to reduce the cost of the product to just $500."
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