SANTA MONICA, Calif.-DDD Group plc, which provides three-dimensional software and content, said it signed a development agreement, as well as a two-year software licensing agreement with a large mobile handset manufacturer.
The development agreement is valued at $900,000 for the first handset, said the company.
The agreement calls for DDD to integrate its software with a 3D handset that is currently under development. The DDD Mobile software allows the presentation of photos, animations and movies in a 3D format on mobile phones.
Completion of the software development phase is expected in the third quarter, after which DDD will earn a per-handset royalty for handsets shipped with its technology.
In a separate announcement, DDD said it has reached a licensing agreement for its software with Jamster. The content provider will offer 3D images from its portfolio that DDD technology will convert to 3D content.
Jamster will act as DDD’s aggregator for the content, offering it in markets in Asia and Europe. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but DDD will convert the images at its own expense, and the two companies will share profits from sales of the content.
“As DDD secures handset licensees for DDD Mobile, Jamster’s existing distribution network should yield rapid and cost-effective access to the 3D mobile telephone subscribers from which DDD can expect to derive incremental content-based revenues,” said Nigel Hawkes, DDD’s director of European business development.
