Author: dsellers

Luxology is introducing a new Studio Lighting & Illumination Kit (SLIK) created by Yazan Malkosh. It’s an US$125 collection of presets, scenes, items, materials and video tutorials to help customers light computer-generated (CG) creations.

Designed specifically for users of modo, Luxology’s modern 3D modeling, painting and rendering application, SLIK provides realistic lighting of scenes that mimics those found in the real world of photography, says Brad Peebler, president of Luxology. ”

Global IP Solutions (http://www.gipscorp.com/), a provider of HD voice and video processing solutions, has announced the availability of video chat technology for iPhone developers to incorporate video conferencing/video chat into their mobile applications.

With GIPS VideoEngine Mobile, iPhone developers can integrate y real-time video chat or multi-point video conferencing into iPhone applications that resolves the issues related to IP networks such as delay, jitter and echo, says Joyce Kim, GIPS’ chief marketing officer.

The DiscCloud Social Network (http://www.disccloud.com) has announced the release of “Flurry”, the desktop cloud infrastructure for Mac OS X. DiscCloud’s Mac desktop cloud offers Mac users access to their desktop from any Mac device on the network.

DiscCloud Flurry extends enterprise class business continuity to the Mac platform via VMware infrastructure, according to the folks at DiscCloud. Flurry is built on VMware and works as a plug-in into the VMware infrastructure. VMware service provider partners can deploy the cloud for Mac OS X 10.5 and higher.

Sugar Games has released Matchmaker: Joining Hearts (http://www.sugargames.com/matchmaker/), an US$9.95 game that’s compatible with Mac OS X 10.3 and higher.