Nurien will bring a highly realistic fashion game into the U.S. next year
Nurien Software has been wowing audiences over the past year with demos of its highly realistic fashion-oriented online virtual world. The characters that you can create within Nurien’s world will make your eyes pop out because they look so real. You’ll feel like you’re wandering through the world of fashion runways and hip urban environments.
The South Korean company plans to launch the game in the U.S. in 2010, once it Westernizes the content. Taehoon Kim,… Continue Reading
South Korea’s Nurien raises $10 million for fashion-oriented virtual world
Nurien Software has been making a splash with its demos of virtual characters dressed as fashion models striding down runways in virtual fashion shows. This strategy has helped the company raise $10 million in a second institutional round of funding.
The funding suggests that investors are still excited about virtual worlds. According to market researcher In-stat, virtual worlds are expected to hit 1 billion registered users and $3 billion in revenues by 2012. And since Nurien… Continue Reading
Nvision 08: Emerging Companies Summit highlights visual start-ups
Sixty start-ups gathered today to talk at the Emerging Companies Summit about how they’re using graphics technologies in their businesses. The summit was one of the many sub-conferences at the Nvision 08 Visual Computing conference in San Jose.
Jeff Herbst, (left) vice president of business development at Nvidia (sponsor of Nvision and the summit), said the company had many more applicants for the 60 presentation slots than it could accommodate. Those chosen came from 16 different… Continue Reading