Mr. John White, Chief Executive Officer, ACM Mr. Scott Owen, President, ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished guests Ladies and gentlemen Good morning. I am delighted to join you today at the opening of SIGGRAPH Asia 2008. Today’s event is highly significant as this is the inaugural Asia edition of The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGGRAPH Conference [...]

The Government has poured millions of dollars into research and development for the interactive media industry. The goal is for Singapore to become a thought leader in research in this area. Serene Luo from The Straits times looks at three funded projects that are yielding interesting results. Jazzing up the games sector

By Kenny Chee DARWINIAN theories are set to hit Singapore TV screens in the form of a cartoon entitled The Future Is Wild. The 3-D animated series – coproduced by Singapore Technologies (ST) Electronics and Canadian animation giant Nelvana, and co-funded by theMedia Development Authority – is based on an Animal Planet show of the [...]

SINGAPORE’S fledgling online video game industry has attracted European animation giant Rainbow, which is investing $25 million to create a new game here. The amount is the largest put into the industry since Singapore embarked on a drive to attract such digital media companies in 2000. Rainbow, an Italian outfit with some &yen60 million (S [...]

By Teh Jen Lee IMAGINE having to find a phrase that someone used in a YouTube video clip. Today’s search engines, which depend on words, will be able to find the clip only if it has been transcribed into text. Similarly for a photograph, it can’t be found if it has no caption. To help [...]

SINGAPORE’S attempt to become a port-of-call for digital media companies is starting to materialise with more gaming studios and animation companies docking their regional operations in the city-state. The latest to join the fold is Italian firm Rainbow SpA, the studio responsible for the popular Winx Club animated series. BizIT understands that the company has [...]

Out of 126 nominations submitted by 10 countries, Singapore emerged as the biggest winner with 3 submissions winning 3 out of 16 categories. 2 winners, PGK Media and Personal e-Motion are IDMPO funded companies. Singapore also received 6 merit awards for the other categories. All winners were being announced during the Gala Dinners and Award [...]

The finalists are based in 16 countries/regions including China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia and Vietnam. “The finalists we selected from across 16 countries and regions are all excellent contenders,” said Joel Dreyfuss, Editor-in-Chief of Red Herring. “They are exceptional companies who thrive on innovation and strongly define the important role of technology in Asia’s [...]

IMAGINE you are in a library searching for a book – and simply cannot find it. Imagine being able to call up a 3D map of the library which can give you the precise location of the book, and show you how to get there. Or imagine you are in the market to buy a [...]

SINGAPORE — The Media Development Authority announced Friday its Interactive Digital Media Research and Development Programme Office will provide S$12 million (US$8.1 million) in funding to 15 projects in interactive digital media R&D. The projects, selected from 55 proposals involving some 200 companies, range from new exploration in Immersive 3D, virtual and digital media to [...]