TEL AVIV, Israel and TAIPEI, Taiwan/PRNewswire/ -- Leveraging market leading motion game expertise,
advanced sensor UI technology, an extensive developers' community and
rich content catalog, AppSide (www.app-side.com) has launched the first content marketplace for entertainment devices that use innovative motion-controlled user experiences.
With AppSide's central marketplace, manufacturers of
motion-controlled entertainment devices can ensure the best user
experience by giving players easy access to browse and purchase the
greatest motion controlled games and apps. AppSide's end-to-end solution
helps developers monetize their investment by distributing and selling
games and apps to a wider user-base of consumers. The AppSide solution
is tailored to each device's audience and brand, and also includes a rich SDK, tools and APIs.
The first motion controlled entertainment device featured in the
AppSide marketplace is the ASUS WAVI Xtion entertainment center for the
PC (www.asus.com), a next generation
device that extends PC usage into the living room with a controller-free
experience. WAVI Xtion offers easy access to limitless enjoyment with
total integration of living room entertainment, social networking and
gaming. It redefines the way of enjoying internet entertainment,
movie-watching and photo viewing, simply by waving the hands and moving
the body to navigate on larger fonts, icons and livelier graphics on the
TV. Better still, WAVI Xtion provides various PC, online and gesture
games in racing, adventure and family genres. AppSide's white-label
SaaS solution (platform and content) will be embedded in WAVI Xtion to
allow users to easily find games and apps in a customized and
player-centric buying experience.
AppSide and ASUS will showcase the marketplace in Nangang Exhibition
Hall 4F, booth no. M1009 during Computex Taipei 2011, taking place May 31-June 4 in Taipei, Taiwan.
"AppSide's mission is to become the premier content marketplace for
motion-controlled entertainment devices, for users and developers alike.
We are proud to introduce our end-to-end games and apps marketplace at
Computex, as well as to be the first central location of content to
ensure the utmost satisfaction for WAVI Xtion users," said Jonathan Ya'ari,
Co-Founder and CEO, AppSide. "The motion controlled entertainment
market is reach a significant size over the next two to three years and
ASUS is leading the transformation to an interactive living room."
"ASUS combines its WAVI Xtion, which extends gesture-based PC
entertainment to TV, with AppSide's innovative, intuitive, marketplace
for motion controlled games and applications. We are confident that our
collaboration with AppSide will enable the best experience for users and
promote the on-going usage of WAVI Xtion's capabilities," said Kent Chien, General Manager of Multimedia Business Unit, ASUS.
About AppSide
Founded in 2011 AppSide is the first end-to-end content marketplace
for motion-controlled entertainment devices. With years of experience in
the motion field, AppSide provides the "missing link" between hardware
manufacturers, developers and end-users, in the fast growing market of
motion-controlled/Natural Interaction entertainment devices. AppSide
end-to-end marketplace (platform and content) gives users easy access to
innovative motion controlled games and apps using the best device
experience possible. The company is based in Tel Aviv, Israel,
and is backed by Wekix, a technology and new-media start-up
accelerator, as well as high-profile US and European private investors.
Media Contacts:
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SOURCE AppSide