NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Immersion Corporation (Nasdaq:IMMR), a leading developer and licensor of touch feedback technology, is putting new apps designed with the company’s Haptic SDK on display alongside next gen UI concepts using high fidelity haptic technology. Immersion will demonstrate a wide range of apps and user interface concepts for haptics at its exhibition stand #4663.
Visitors to Immersion’s stand will have the opportunity to get their hands on a number of shipping handsets and tablets with Immersion’s embedded TouchSense® technology, concept handsets with next generation haptic technology, and the latest apps enabled with Immersion touch feedback.
Hands On with Tactile Apps
Since unveiling its developer platform last year, top tier developers have incorporated touch feedback as part of their mobile apps in intuitive new ways, including specialized effects in mobile games and alerts for navigation, communication and identification. By incorporating haptics, developers have used the sense of touch to create more realistic, engaging and informative user experiences. Immersion will showcase some of today’s most popular haptic-enabled apps, including:
- Grand Theft Auto III: 10 Year Anniversary Edition by Rockstar Games: The critically acclaimed blockbuster Grand Theft Auto III comes to mobile devices, bringing life to the dark and seedy underworld of Liberty City. Grand Theft Auto III is available with Immersion haptics today on Google Play.
- Sonic CD™ by Sega: Fight the past to save the future in this enhanced recreation of Sonic CD! Sonic CD is a blast on touch screen Android phones and tablets, and will be optimized for devices that feature Immersion haptic technology.
- ViBe by Base 2 Applications: This year’s winner of the CTIA Brand Scrum Mobile App Challenge, Base 2 Applications developed some of their most popular apps using the Haptic SDK, including ViBE, custom vibrations for incoming calls and text messages. Think ringtones but with vibrations! You can experience ViBe in the Immersion stand, or at Base 2 Applications’ booth #4473 or you can download the app from Google Play.
Next Generation Haptic Concepts
Also on display will be next-generation high fidelity haptic solutions that offer OEMs and Carriers unique and distinctive features based on Immersion’s TouchSense and Integrator software solutions. Demonstrations will include multimedia games, music and video enriched with haptic feedback, as well as ambient communications, which transmits information to the user subtly through the sense of touch, for more intuitive and informative phone interactions.
Games, Giveaways and Haptic Candy
In addition to demonstrations, visitors will have an opportunity to pick up some “haptic” candy (can you guess what kind?) and win prizes including gift cards, handsets and tablets, awarded daily at the Immersion booth. The Immersion booth will also be one of the select locations where CTIA attendees can pick up their ticket for AT&T’s Developer Man Interactive Mobile Adventure, taking place on Tuesday, May 8th at 5:45PM. Participants in the mobile adventure will receive a Developer Man t-shirt and a chance to win $100 in Amazon Cash for each member of the winning adventure team. Learn more about AT&T’s Developer Man at www.apidaily.com.
To download Immersion’s Haptic SDK, visit: http://bit.ly/HapticSDK
For more information on Immersion’s HD Haptic solutions, visit: http://bit.ly/HDintegrator
About Immersion (www.immersion.com)
Founded in 1993, Immersion (NASDAQ: IMMR) is the leading innovator in haptic technology; the company's touch feedback solutions deliver a more compelling sense of the digital world. Using Immersion's high-fidelity haptic systems, partners can transform user experiences with unique and customizable touch feedback effects; excite the senses in games, videos and music; restore "mechanical" feel by providing intuitive and unmistakable confirmation; improve safety by overcoming distractions while driving or performing a medical procedure; and expand usability when audio and visual feedback are ineffective. Immersion's TouchSense technology provides haptics in mobile phone, automotive, gaming, medical and consumer electronics products from world-class companies. With over 1,200 issued or pending patents in the U.S. and other countries, Immersion helps bring the digital universe to life. Hear what we have to say at blog.immersion.com.
Forward-looking Statements
This press release contains “forward-looking statements” that involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that, if they never materialize or prove incorrect, could cause the results of Immersion Corporation and its consolidated subsidiaries to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.
All statements, other than the statements of historical fact, are statements that may be deemed forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, statements regarding developers creating more realistic, engaging and informative user experiences from the use of haptics, statements regarding Immersion technology providing unique and distinctive features for OEMs and Carriers and more intuitive and informative phone interactions to users.
Immersion's actual results might differ materially from those stated or implied by such forward-looking statements due to risks and uncertainties associated with Immersion’s business, which include, but are not limited to: unanticipated difficulties and challenges encountered in product development efforts by Immersion and its licensees; adverse outcomes in any future intellectual property-related litigation and the costs related thereto; the effects of the current macroeconomic climate; delay in or failure to achieve commercial demand for Immersion's products or third party products incorporating Immersion’s technologies; and a delay in or failure to achieve the acceptance of force feedback as a critical user experience. Many of these risks and uncertainties are beyond the control of Immersion.
For a more detailed discussion of these factors, and other factors that could cause actual results to vary materially, interested parties should review the risk factors listed in Immersion's most current Form 10-Q and Form 10-K, which are on file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements in this press release reflect Immersion's beliefs and predictions as of the date of this release. Immersion disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements as a result of financial, business, or any other developments occurring after the date of this release.
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