POWERVR Insider SDK by Imagination Technologies®

The POWERVR Insider mobile 3D graphics SDK is used to build advanced LBS applications with smoothly rendered 3D mapping and navigation features using 3D visual content from NAVTEQ. Take full advantage of Imagination's graphics acceleration technology using the standard OpenGL® ES2 API to create advanced graphics effects like lighting and shading on a map, 3D visual objects and fully textured 3D city models from NAVTEQ rendered at high speed.

Benefits of using the POWERVR Insider SDK

  • Market-proven solution with thousands of professional users
  • Support for over 450 million POWERVR graphics enabled devices already in the market
  • Demonstrates how to achieve highest level of performance in mobile 3D graphics on embedded devices from leading handset manufacturers
  • Helps you respond to the demands of tomorrow's graphics-rich, high frame rate applications
  • PC emulation enables development to start ahead of hardware availability
  • Integrated into many industry leading third party tool chains
  • Built around industry standard content creation tools and APIs
  • Solid tools built for stability

The SDK contains step-by-step tutorials on how to get started with Khronos OpenGL ES 2.x development, including texturing, lighting effects, use of shaders, alpha blending, etc. as well as graphics demos, including a 3D navigation demo and source code for implementations of different 3D navigation rendering techniques.

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