Geomerics


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 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. The software was ported to Nvidia's CUDA platform in 2011.
The first system to incorporate the software is the Frostbite 2 engine, created by the EA DICE studio, used in Battlefield 3, and . Enlighten has also been licensed for a variety of other titles including Eve Online.
Advanced real-time global illumination system Enlighten has since become property of and further developed by Silicon Studio.

History

The company was formed by an LSE listed company in 2005. The project was led by Chris J. L. Doran as a spin out from Cambridge University. Since 2007 its Chief Executive has been Gary Lewis, who prior to joining the company was the Global Chief Operating Officer at Take 2 Interactive in New York.
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. 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."
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. The terms of the deal were not made public.
In July 2014 Geomerics was awarded £1 million from the United Kingdom's Technology Strategy Board to take the company's real-time graphics capabilities from computer gaming to film-making.