OpenGL on Symbian

Dallas, April 29, 2003
News posted May 27th, 2003 by webmaster
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OpenGL-ES (OpenGL for Embedded System) is developped by the Khronos group. It is likely to become a "standard" API for wireless 3D gaming since most active companies in this domain have joined the group: Symbian, Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, Motorola, ARM, Texas Instrument, MediaQ, Fathammer, SuperScape... (the list is too long!)

As reported by Infosync, TI and Symbian recently announced that they have developed a plug in library for the Symbian multimedia and graphics framework to enable eccelerated graphics handling on TI's OMAP processor family. TI's 3D Graphics Library is an early implementation of the forthcoming OpenGL ES standard which currently works on Symbian OS. This is a precursor to a fully compliant leading-edge, 3D graphics OpenGL ES 1.0 Library, expected to be available in July 2003.

Fathammer and Digia have already announced that their respective game engine would support this API (and then any compatible hardware accelaration).