HMI Engineering Tools Will Soon Integrate with Innovative Flash Platform
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO and Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 28, 2010 – Altia, Incorporated, a leader in human-machine interface (HMI) engineering tools and Animated Media Inc. (AMI), a software technology company focused on creating Adobe Flash-compatible multimedia software products, today announced a collaborative relationship that will strengthen Altia’s already powerful software suite by including the AMI Flash-compatible VGK platform. The VGK platform is a combination of Flash-compatible engines or players, content management and proprietary modules performance tuned to embedded systems. With this partnership, users of Altia’s software will be given the capability to add Flash content to their HMIs.
AMI has implemented a wide variety of advanced features into its Flash-compatible platform, which Altia users can apply to their development efforts — including advanced transparency, audio and graphics hardware acceleration, ActionScript acceleration, dynamic loading and display of multiple content sources and formats like Adobe Flash animations and videos, bitmap, jpeg or SVG.
Jason Williamson, Altia’s Director of Marketing stated, "Altia wants to empower HMI developers to re-use the brilliant content that their industrial designers create. We began this trend with PhotoProto, continued with FlowProto and we’re carrying that vision through by providing this new capability with AMI’s Flash-compatible platform. Flash brings considerable richness to the systems that can support it. Altia and AMI aim to push this capability onto the lowest power, lowest cost hardware possible."
Chris Brady, CEO of AMI added, "We wanted to partner with Altia given their dominant position in the HMI tools market and their work with automotive customers. The VGK platform will augment the Altia products by allowing designers to add Flash content to their existing user interfaces and allowing manufacturers a roadmap to support Flash content into the future. The VGK platform also provides accelerated ActionScript and OpenGL graphics."
About Altia, Inc.
Altia, Inc. is a software company that provides user interface design and development tools that can be used from concept to final product code. Altia was founded in 1991 and its customers include GM, Ford, Chrysler, Honda, Toyota, Guidant, Lockheed Martin and hundreds of other leading manufacturers. For more information about Altia, visit www.altia.com or contact Altia’s corporate headquarters at +1 (719) 598-4299.
About Animated Media Inc.
Animated Media Inc. (AMI) is based in Toronto and offers a family of multimedia software platforms that provide support for 2D/3D graphics, video, and audio applications using popular media formats such as Adobe Flash, SVG, and the Khronos Group’s Open APIs. AMI’s products extend Adobe’s Flash product by providing additional "eye popping" 3D features to the Flash player in embedded environments not currently supported by standard Flash players. AMI products support multiple vertical markets such as digital advertising, digital television, industrial control, 3D user interface authoring, internet and casino gaming, home automation controls, medical instrumentation, automotive control and infotainment displays. For more information, please visit us at www.animatedmedia.ca.
Altia and the Altia logo are trademarks of Altia, Incorporated. Animated Media and the Animated Media Logo are trademarks of Animated Media Inc. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners.
Contacts:
Altia, Inc.
- Jason Williamson, Director of Marketing
- Email: press@altia.com
- Phone: 719-598-4299
- www.altia.com
Animated Media Inc.
- Lisa Brady, Director of Marketing
- Email: pr@animatedmedia.ca
- Phone: 416-977-7187
- www.animatedmedia.ca
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