III Coached Team Gelly Bomb Games Wins the international award at Vision VR/AR Summit 2016 and Gains International Attention by VR/AR Product "Eleanor of Ayer"
Date: 2016/02/16
Supported by Industrial Development Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs, III coached team Gelly Bomb Games won the Best VR/AR Experience Award by VR/AR Product "Eleanor of Ayer". The picture above showed the live situation of the award ceremony.
Acclaimed by the U.S. press as the Godmother of VR, Nonny de la Pena appeared at the ceremony as the award presenter. Taiwanese team Gelly Bomb Games won the Best VR/AR Experience Award by VR/AR Product "Eleanor of Ayer". The picture above presents to viewers live image of the award ceremony.
A Taiwanese innovation team reached new heights once again! Guided by Industrial Development Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Digital Content Industry Promotion Office (DCIPO) has devoted itself to the development of the digital content industry in our country. Gelly Bomb Games, a III coached team, beat the other teams from 89 countries and its VR/AR product Eleanor of Ayer stood out of 250 competing items and won the Best AR Experience award at Vision VR/AR Summit 2016! This no doubt set off the domestic start-up waves once again.
Vision VR/AR Summit 2016 was held by VR engine big brand Unity on February 10th (February 11st Taiwan Standard Time) in Hollywood, California, USA. The summit lasted for 2 days. Not only did well known brands such as HTC, Microsoft, Oculus, SONY, and Google gave lectures and shared their insights into the latest trend in related industries, but also collect products concerning virtual reality before the exhibition. After rigorous evaluation, various important awards were announced in the exhibition including Best Game Award, Best Movie/Interactive Story Award, Best Live Action Experience Award, Technical Achievement Award, Artistic Achievement Award and Best VR/AR Experience Award!
Gelly Bomb Games, one of the start-ups of Dream Market, was supported by Industrial Development Bureau's "4G Innovation and Entrepreneurship Park Development Subsidiary Plan" in the coached field regarding startup acceleration, investment, and public funding. Laying its foundation on gamification, it is a research and development team which consistently devoted to applying the latest digital technologies to adding value of cross domain application. The team consists of 5 persons including Li, Yu-Cheng, Li,Chun-I, Chen,Tai-Wei, Chen, Hsuan, and Kao, Yu-Ju who are professionals of multiple years of experience in various fields such as game design, visual design, programming, Electronic Circuit, creative marketing, and event planning.
Coached and assisted by Industrial Development Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs, independent game developers from Taiwan continuously won big awards in Singapore, Korea, and Japan. As if participating in a relay race, Gelly Bomb Games joined international competition and carried on improving the reputation of Taiwan game developers by winning significant awards. Gary Gong, Director of Digital Content Industry Promotion Office (DCIPO), Ministry of Economic Affairs and Executive Vice President of III, indicated that emerging technologies usually drive the innovation and revolution of digital content. Under the latest VR/AR wave, the lean start-up team creatively combined the emerging AR technologies with VR games and won important awards in international competition. The cross domain value added application was extremely inspiring to professionals in related industries. In the future, cross domain applications combining VR and AR technologies could be the main stream in the fields such as gaming, audio-visual industry, exhibition and performance, cultural and creative industry, tourism, live broadcasting, and electronic sport, etc. The explosive innovation force stimulated by the latest technologies is worthy of long term observation and expectation. It is expected that Taiwanese teams could grasp more opportunities and exhibit solid expertise on international stages to consistently maintain the reputation of Taiwan developers!
Unity Technologies is one of the biggest game engine developing companies around the world and has achieved outstanding performance since beginning. The story of founding the company is also related to pursuing dreams. In Copenhagen, Denmark, 2004, three youngsters, Joachim Ante, Nicholas Francis, and David Helgason, who were fanatic about playing games, decided to collectively develop a easy-to-use, unique, and low-cost game engine for game loving youngsters to fulfill their dreams creating their own games. Now, Unity has 4 million developers and the number of users playing the games which are based on Unity has reached 800 million. There is no doubt that Unity has a significant global influence on game developing industry.
*Vision Summit 2016 VR/AR related information:http://visionsummit2016.com/
*Gelly Bomb Games creative studio official website: http://www.gellybomb.com/
*Gelly Bomb Games creative studio FB:https://www.facebook.com/gellybomb/
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