June 10, 2009

Nyon, Switzerland - Force Dimension announced today the latest version of its powerful Haptic Device API for professional development of high-end haptic applications. The SDK 3.2 introduces significant performance improvements for multi-threaded, multi-device applications and is provided on a wider range of platforms. New ports to Windows 64-bit editions (XP64 and Vista) and Apple OS X (10.4 and later) complement the existing range of operating systems currently supported, including real-time solutions (QNX, Linux-rt) aimed at medical and advanced system developers.

In combination with the real-time capabilities of release 3.2, Force Dimension is introducing a new robotics control layer built on top of its CORE Haptics foundation library. With an extended set of powerful new API functions, the new robotics framework allows applications to precisely control the position and velocity of the device along an arbitrary trajectory. The new SDK makes it possible to seamlessly integrate haptics and robotics control schemes in the same applications. This combination of both Haptics and Robotics CORE foundation libraries into a unified SDK opens new opportunities to develop more powerful, collaborative interfaces between people and machines.

The new SDK is compatible with all existing Force Dimension devices (PCI support on select platforms only). The 3.2 release retains full back-compatibility with previous 3.x versions and is available to all existing customers.