CARBON GRAPHICS ANNOUNCES THE IMMEDIATE AVAILABILITY OF GEO 1.4 AND DEVELOPMENT OF NEXTGEN PROJECT

San Jose, CA, December 20, 2006 -- Carbon Graphics is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Geo Version 1.4 - this is the fourth post introduction release of the leading visual simulation real-time modeling and animation package. This release focuses on productivity improvements & bug fixes (pending the upcoming release of our NextGen flagship product)

NextGen Project

Carbon Graphics is also pleased to announce the existence of our NextGen product development project. NextGen is a completely new architecture for 3D product development and deployment. Main technology approaches are as follows...

• Written completely in C# and .NET 2.0
• True Windows-native, powerful and modern User Interface
  • skin-able (choose between Office, XP, Vista and more look and feels)
  • docking windows, toolbars - high degree of interface customization
  • VISTA-tested
  • Beautiful application :-)
• Data-driven architecture
• Schema description language used for defining Data Object Model (DOM)
• XML-based intermediary file format
• Shader-based rendering
• Plugin based architecture
• Support for a mix of traditional Visual-Simulation and gaming file formats...
  • OpenSceneGraph
  • COLLADA
  • XAML
  • OpenFlight
  • Aechelon
  • Geo
  • Designer's Workbench
• Built with Visual Studio 2005

The NextGen platform draws upon our experience from both the Visual Simulation and Gaming markets and will provide both a framework for scene construction, layout, level-editing, animation, testing and debugging as well as associated runtime elements. Please contact us if you have specific feature requests or plugin suggestions for NextGen.

About Carbon Graphics

Carbon Graphics LLC is an innovative company specializing in software products & services for the Visual Simulation market. Their flagship product is Geo - a 3D modeling and animation tool used for building, editing & animating dynamic real-time models and scenes. Visit the Carbon Graphics Web site at http://www.carbongraphics.com

For further in formation regarding this press release or Carbon Graphics, please contact:  

Alison Weckler, Director of Marketing
Carbon Graphics LLC
(408) 866-6381
alison@carbongraphics.com

Carbon Graphics and Geo are trademarks of Carbon Graphics LLC. Any other trademarks or trade names mentioned in this press release are the property of their respective owners.