computer and video games founded 2005 founder chris j. l. doran headquarters cambridge cambridgeshire england key people chris j. l. doran coo gary lewis ceo products enlighten number of employees 25 2010 1 website geomerics.com geomerics is a software company based in cambridge uk that specialises in creating lighting technology for the video game industry . the company s main product is enlighten software code that calculates indirect lighting radiosity in real time for live action games running on systems such as the playstation 3 playstation 4 xbox 360 and personal computers . the company licenses this code to games companies for incorporation into their proprietary rendering engines . 2 3 4 5 the software has also recently been ported to nvidia s cuda platform . 6 the first system to incorporate the software is the frostbite 2 engine 7 created by the ea dice studio used in battlefield 3 2011 8 and need for speed the run 2011 . 9 enlighten has also been licensed for a variety of other titles 10 including eve online . 11 history edit a demonstration of quasi realtime radiosity from the frostbite 2 engine . the company was formed by angle plc an lse listed company lse agl in 2005 . the project was led by chris j. l. doran as a spin out from cambridge university . 12 since 2007 its chief executive has been gary lewis 13 who prior to joining the company was the global chief operating officer at take 2 interactive in new york . 14 enlighten has been in development since 2006 and will see major distribution with the release of battlefield 3 in 2011 and updates to ongoing massively multiplayer online game eve online . 15 according to the company enlighten s revolutionary technology ensures that for the first time lighting can be updated in real time in game on today s consoles . 9 in december 2013 arm a cambridge based mobile cpu and gpu designer acquired geomerics for a number of reasons but foremost was enlighten geomerics award winning technology for real time lighting said dennis laudick arm s vice president of partner marketing . 16 the terms of the deal were not made public . 17 in july 2014 geomerics was awarded 1 million from the united kingdom s technology strategy board tsb to take the company s real time graphics capabilities from the world of computer gaming to the world of film making . 18 references edit bio for jules davis previously cto tenshi ventures . accessed 7 july 2011 . codeshop step into the light edge 18 february 2008 game developer 16 11 december 2009 page 35 becoming enlightened guardian online 5 february 2008 . sam martin geomerics per einarsson dice a real time radiosity architecture for video games 2 in advances in real time rendering siggraph 2010 real time live siggraph 2011 kenny magnusson dice lighting you up in battlefield 3 gdc 2011 edge may 2011 p. 28 29 a b http www.geomerics.com enlighten press release geomerics sales progress angle plc 14 april 2011 . geomerics has secured ... sales for seven new titles with three major publishers in the first quarter . all the new titles are with large publishers and include some of the industry s most iconic and best selling computer games . in keeping with the games industry s standard working practices details of the individual titles and publishers will not be made public until those titles are released . at this time the only information geomerics is able to disclose is that three of these titles are scheduled to be released in calendar 2011 all of them well known and highly regarded game franchises . http www.geomerics.com news geomerics ccp.html game changers develop february 2008 financial times 2 february 2007 page 4 . patrick garratt gary lewis joins geomerics as ceo gamesindustry.biz 31 january 2007 . accessed via google cache 5 july 2011 http www.geomerics.com downloads londongraphics2011.pdf chapple craig 8 april 2014 . chris doran and dennis laudick discuss what developers can expect now that geomerics is part of arm . develop news in depth . retrieved 25 february 2015 . myslewski rik 13 dec 2013 . arm swallows graphics software biz geomerics to tart up mobile games . the register biting the hand that feeds it . retrieved 25 february 2015 . uk govt backs geomerics to revolutionize the movie industry . business wire . 10 july 2014 . retrieved 25 february 2015 . external links edit geomerics website geomerics on agl website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title geomerics & oldid 679660849 categories software companies of the united kingdomhidden categories use british english from july 2013use dmy dates from july 2011 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload 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