Video Demo: BumpTop App Shows Off 3D Graphics via New Open GL APIs on BlackBerry Storm2

on 10 Nov 2009 08:16 PM

[ youtube video link for mobile viewing ]

Following up on yesterday's Open GL support announcement by Research in Motion, we've now seen a few examples at DevCon of BlackBerry apps and games showing off 3D graphics in live working apps.

Xtreme Labs gave us a demo of the picture viewing / album app they have been working on with BumpTop.com that features oodles of 3D graphics love. Check out the video above to see it in action. It's still an early beta, but it's an encouraging sign for BlackBerry developers as the Xtreme Labs guys only had access to the new APIs for a short period of time leading up to the conference (less than two weeks).

Cool stuff. We'll let you know when the BumpTop app becomes available for download.

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19 Comments

Posted by Tsudeily Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 823 days ago

pretty sweet. Makes me a little tempted to get verizon and a storm. lol

Posted by skitchbeatz Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 823 days ago

cool idea.. looks a little laggy though.

Posted by Kevin Michaluk Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 823 days ago

yeah - super early build of this. wouldn't read into the speed of the app yet. no real optimizations in place yet... they barely played with the new apis before churning that out.

Posted by BeeRad Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 823 days ago

Kevin,

yeah, I was gonna say. This doesn't look super appealing in this form. We don't need our interfaces looking like Sony Xperias. haha That app needs to be sped up. It NEEDS to be fluid for anybody to take this and us seriously.

-BeeRad

Posted by John Yester Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 823 days ago

That is why Kevin stated it was beta...... very very very early.....

Thx for the vid bro.

Posted by FJimbo Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009 823 days ago

Is OpenGL purely hardware based, or is there some sort of software OpenGL that these things are running? I mean, I know the Storm and Storm 2's processor has a built in GPU, but it really doesn't seem like the OpenGL is using hardware to accelerate itself. The frame rate isn't what you might expect from full hardware accelerated OpenGL. Maybe this will improve with time.

Posted by peterr22 Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009 823 days ago

look at the lag

Posted by katiepea Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009 823 days ago

speaking of looking, look at previous posts (8F

Posted by hudss Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009 822 days ago

now that's funny

Posted by peterr22 Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009 822 days ago

Huh?

Posted by Shintocam Thursday, Nov 12, 2009 822 days ago

Now THAT's Funny - get a clue....

Posted by TallyHo Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009 823 days ago

This looks awesome. Just a small clue as to what this OpenGL availability will bring us. Loving it.

@ you guys complaining. You are obviously so clueless it is funny. The developer had the apis for 2 weeks and was nice enough to show a rough beta sampling what can be done. The onlt thing you say is that it lags. Buy a clue or gtfo.

Posted by TallyHo Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009 823 days ago

Double Post

Posted by Davidboon Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009 823 days ago

Love this phone, graphics of this phone are rocking through out the market. (David from www.businesswebhostingplans.com)

Posted by leoncc Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009 823 days ago

You can see major lag on that screen haha!

Posted by jbjarko Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009 823 days ago

Is theis the application offered by Wanderspot, LLC as version 1.0?

If so it is already in APP world.

Thanks

Posted by kinggeoff Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009 823 days ago

keep trying RIM