visage|SDK 5.5 released

13.11.2007.

Visage Technologies AB releases visage|SDK™ 5.5, with new body animation samples, added support for CubeMap textures in the code and in the AFM file format, a new FDP class to handle facial feature points and other improvements.

visage|SDK 5.4 released, fully integrated with VS2005.NET

03.08.2007.

Visage Technologies AB releases visage|SDK™ 5.4, further improvement to our unique Software Development Kit for real-time character animation, now fully rebuilt in the Visual Studio 2005 .NET development environment, enabling even easier integration with any real time application requiring character animation.

Major character animation SDK now more accessible

21.06.2007.

Visage Technologies AB adopts a new licensing policy for its powerful visage|SDK™ real-time character animation software development kit. The major motivation for the new policy is to make sophisticated real-time character animation more accessible for a large population of interested developers. Full body characters with skinning and facial animation controlled through standard MPEG-4 Face and Body Animation Parameters are now available in extremely competitively priced visage|SDK BASE package, with other packages providing higher level functions such as lip sync and animation driven by speech synthesis. The BASE package is available starting from EUR 349 for a single-developer Standard Edition license that allows development and testing, but no redistribution. The Redistribution licenses start from EUR 1745. This model allows to start developing and testing without immediately investing in a Redistribution license. Furthermore, for independent game developers special promotional conditions are available based on paying the full product price out of future royalties - in practice, this means you can develop and distribute your game using the full range of visage|SDK technology by paying only EUR 349 up front, and covering the rest up to the full price of the chosen package out of future royalties. Find out more about the products at www.visagetechnologies.com and don't forget to try the demo. Basic licensing conditions are available in the product brochure. For further details, contact Visage Technologies at info@visagetechnologies.com.

15.12.2006.

Visage Technologies releases visage|SDK™ 5.1, further improvement to our unique Software Development Kit for real-time character animation, now with even better lip sync, improved documentation and samples.

29.01.2006.

Visage Technologies releases visage|SDK™ 5.0, the new release of our unique Software Development Kit for real-time character animation. The inclusion of full body animation with skinning, and improved real time lip sync function confirms visage|SDK as the most complete face animation SDK on the market with SAPI-4 and -5 TTS support, real-time and off-line lip sync and of course full MPEG-4 FBA support.
Simultaneously, Visage Technologies released visage|interactive 4.0, the new generation of its interactive virtual character animation application, including on-the-fly speech synthesis- or lip sync-based animation.


26.11.2004.

Visage Technologies releases visage|SDK™ 3.0, the new release of our unique Software Development Kit for real-time face animation. The inclusion of new lip sync function makes visage|SDK the most complete face animation SDK on the market with SAPI-4 and -5 TTS support, real-time and off-line lip sync and of course full MPEG-4 FBA support.


01.11.2004.

co-lab projects, UK, releases their Karaoke me project - an interactive virtual karaoke with facial animation driven by Visage Technologies' software. This artistic and original on-line project has already been nominated for the prestigious BAFTA award in the interactive arts section.


01.04.2004.

Visage Technologies releases visage|SDK™ 2.0, the new release of our unique Software Development Kit for MPEG-4 face animation. The new release includes new features such as SAPI-5 support and on-the-fly animation with TTS, as well as major improvements in documentation and examples leading to even easier integration of face animation functions into any product.


19.09.2003.

Visage Technologies releases visage|SDK™ 1.0, the first Software Development Kit for MPEG-4 face animation. visage|SDK™ allows to integrate animated characters into any software product. Read the press release.


10.04.2003.

visage|toolkit™ 1.3 released, including a new visage|edit tool with largely extended functionality, and new user interface for the visage|toolkit main shell.


10.10.2002.

An article related to Visage Technologies appears in Mainichi Shimbun, the 2nd largest Japanese daily newspaper.


23.09.2002.

visage|toolkit™ 1.3 released, including a brand new 3ds max plugin with full face animation editing capabilities.


23.05.2002.

visage|toolkit™ 1.2, visage|mail™ 1.0, visage|AI™ 1.0 and visage|news™ 1.0, have been released.