WildTangent said Tuesday it has acquired Eclipse Entertainment
technology for an undisclosed sum of cash and WildTangent equity.
Eclipse Entertainment is best known for its 3D engine featuring real-time character animation systems and 3D world authoring tools. The Eclipse development team has relocated to WildTangent’s Redmond
headquarters where they have joined WildTangent in the task of fusing the
Genesis 3D engine with WildTangent’s Web driver.
The Genesis3D engine and its authoring tools enable developers
and Web designers to author 3D content and animation without
programming.
Combining these solutions with the hardware acceleration, data
compression, and support of standard scripting languages and development
tools offered by WildTangent’s Web driver will create a compact medium for
authoring and delivering leading edge hardware-accelerated multimedia content
over the Internet.
“WildTangent is making it possible for any developer to create incredible multimedia
applications and web pages,” said Mike Sandige, vice-president of technology development at
WildTangent and former vice-president of R&D at Eclipse.