I received this email today. Esperient Creator is the new name of the engine formerly known as Cosmos Creator and Deep Creator.
Release of Esperient Creator 3.0 Community Edition
Free fully featured Community Edition aimed at encouraging technology adoption
among hobbyists and students
Ramona, CA – August 29, 2008
Esperient Corporation, a pioneering developer of 3D authoring tools for visual computing and next generation web applications, is pleased to announce the release of Esperient Creator 3.0 Community Edition. Esperient Creator is widely used by creative media developers in leading manufacturers and service providers - including Boeing, United Technologies, KBR, Serco and Lockheed Martin - for its ability to author cutting edge interactive 3D visual computing applications. The software provides an integrated development environment that includes real time modelling, animation, rendering and advanced Visual Effects authoring tools, in addition to a freely distributable run time viewer.
The free Community Edition of Esperient Creator 3.0, available for download from
www.esperient.com from 1 September, is identical to the full edition except that it has a file limit size of 4MB and is watermarked. In common with the full edition, users of the Community edition will enjoy access to the Esperient Forum and benefit from regular point releases. Since releasing Esperient Creator 3.0 in May, 2008 with revised pricing of just $500 for a 12 month subscription license, the Company has released three further point releases and added numerous new improvements.
Ben Vaughan, CEO of Esperient Corporation, said:
“Releasing a free Community Edition of our software is a vital part of our plans to enable everyone – students, educators, professional media teams and creative individuals – to start experimenting with interactive visual computing and explore the innovations that are available with our software. To date, widespread use of interactive 3D tools has been constrained by the price of the software packages, complexity of use and sales strategies that are targeted at Fortune 1000 companies. It is our intention to remove these barriers and encourage smaller, creative companies to explore the tools and see how easy it is to create highly compelling applications.”
About Esperient Corporation
Esperient was founded in October 2007 to create a new platform for visual computing and next generation web applications. In April 2008, the Company signed an Asset Purchase Agreement with Right Hemisphere Inc (RHI) to acquire the Deep Creator Software technology and the re-named Esperient Creator v3.0 was released the following month. The Company’s founder shareholders includes four former employees of RHI, led by Mike Bailey the original architect of Deep Creator, and Ben Vaughan, the Chief Executive Officer, who has been involved in the 3D visualization industry since 1990.
