Accelerometer technology amazes users of latest Nseries devices all around the world. The complete new intuitive and simple kind of controlling an application is one of the latest breakthroughs in the Symbian world.
We have seen so many interesting concepts by developers like Samir or Tong Reng who had a simple idea behind all their applications: they facilitated the control of ordinary functions for which you would normally need a lot of key presses and trudge through different menus, by executing them with a certain movement which is detected by the accelerometer previously.
Maybe you remember my report about the “Application of the Week” this time, “Bluetooth Switch”.
“Bluetooth Switch” is a very useful application for all the people who often use the Bluetooth connection of their phone to share files. A little click on the icon of “Bluetooth Switch” enables the Bluetooth connection, another click disables it again.
I think you all know the very talented developer Sittiphol Phanvilai about whose projects I have written numerous times. Not only because he has become a good friend of mine, mainly because he is just a very talented developer who released various applications with completely new and innovative concepts.
There is somebody pretty talented called “AcidSonic” who is the creator of some very nice looking graphic stuff for S60. He is the author of the great Windows Media Player skin for “OggPlayer” and also the nice 3D Python icon for “pySnake”.
This was not the only icon he created, there are a lot of great looking ones available on the Internet and indeed worth to be posted here.
I just found information about the very first “real” game which combines impressive 3D graphics with accelerometer control.
We have only seen very simple games using the accelerometer of the N82, N95 and N95 8GB which weren’t really fun to play a long time, because of a boring game principle and poor graphics.
I reported about the lack of 3D acceleration in N-Gage games. A real shame, because devices like the N95 are so much more powerful: They can display amazing graphics, much better ones than normal devices.
Now there are very interesting new from the N-Gage Blog:
In a talk this afternoon, Nokia’s Peter Lykke Nielsen — with an assist from the guys at Digital Legends Entertainment — showed interested game developers how the OpenGL ES 1.1 standard will be incorporated into the N-Gage Software Development Kit (SDK) in the near future. Nielsen is the product manager of the N-Gage SDK.
Phones like the N82, N95, N95 8GB or also E90 are running with the great CPU Texas Instruments OMAP 2420. This CPU has an integrated 3D accelerator which can execute highly expensive graphical operations.
This topic is especially interesting considering the thing that the phones mentioned ahead are all real power phones being able to display very impressive graphics. That is actually the perfect condition for the new N-Gage platform to create games in an optical dimension never seen before on a mobile handset.
There really seems to be something moving about the great N-Gage title “ONE”. After the launch of its own site this morning, a great making of has appeared.
The video focuses especially on the record of the amazing 3D animations and also interviews with the developers from Digital Legends.
The animations aren’t created by the developers, but recorded by the real fighter “Tommy Carruthers” using motion capturing. That’s why there are three further videos which are showing how his moves were recorded.
Wow, I just found an impressive video about a navigation engine which seems to make a large step in mobile navigation.
“Carmenta Mobile” is a high performance map engine for mobile phones, targeting companies that want to provide advanced Location Based Services applications around maps, routing and geocoding.
Maps are able to show real 3D buildings and landmarks and can be zoomed and turned steplessly – amazing!
Furthermore, the video at the bottom doesn’t show a normal map overview, but a Google Earth like look of the landscape. Only the close up view when the particular streets must be seen reminds of a normal navigation system.
Maybe you have heard, that the famous PC game S.T.A.L.K.E.R is developed by Qplaze as mobile version for your S60 device. S.T.A.L.K.E.R is an impressive story based 3D shooter.
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