A real-time 3D solution for the upcoming NVIDIA Tegra 2 devices coming out via Unigine Corporation. The Unigine Engine is being demonstrated at MWC 2011 this week in the NVIDIA booth, while some of us won’t be be there to watch, they did offer a benchmark demo of what they’ll be showing off. While this not the exact benchmark they’ll be using it’s what the new benchmark is based on, difference being the new one is mobile specific and engineered for the Tegra 2 chip.

Unigine is a multi-platform, real-time 3D engine for multi-core systems, that aids in the ability to create interactive virtual worlds. The Unigine Engine is already well known which such feats as their Direct 11 showcase using the Heaven Benchmark. The company is also licensed to develop tools and middleware for the Playstation 3 Platform.

More Information in the press release below. What does this mean for Android? Wicked games! Duh…

Barcelona, Spain – February 14, 2010 -  Unigine Corp. announced support of  NVIDIA Tegra 2/ Android-based devices by its advanced  Unigine engine. Unigine-powered demos will be demonstrated in NVIDIA booth #1C34 at  Mobile World Congress (Barcelona, February 14-17) organized by GSM Association.

An android version of the Unigine engine is showcased by two demos: mystic “Crypt” (a mobile version of  Sanctuary benchmark presenting visual excellence) and futuristic “Passage” (an interactive game demo efficiently exploiting multi-core architecture of Tegra 2 chips).

“NVIDIA Tegra 2 is a powerful tablet/superphone platform which brings a completely new level of 3D graphics for handhelds. The porting was smooth and easy for us thanks to flexible design of Unigine engine. We plan to add more supported platforms pretty soon”, commented Alexander Zaprjagaev, CTO of Unigine Corp.

“Rapidly emerging market of tablets creates a great opportunity for astute game developers so we are happy to provide our feature-rich engine to let them jump on the bandwagon. I’m very excited with the speed of tablet’s technology evolution, it seems to be a new face of personal computing in the nearest future”, added Denis Shergin, CEO of Unigine Corp.

Mobile SDK of Unigine engine is  available for licensing, as well as versions for Windows, Linux and PlayStation 3.

About Unigine Engine

Unigine™ is a multi-platform (Windows / Linux / PlayStation 3 / Android) real-time 3D engine, which unleashes the ultimate power for creating interactive virtual worlds (both modern games and virtual reality systems).

The engine is a complete out-of-the box solution:

• Photorealistic 3D render
• Powerful physics module
• Object-oriented scripting system
• Full-featured GUI module
• Sound subsystem
• A set of flexible tools

High scalability of Unigine engine is ensured by the efficient and well-architected framework supporting multi-core systems. It allows to successfully develop various VR projects and multi-platform games of various genres (RPG, FPS, RTS, MMORPG) on its base.

Unigine engine powers a well-known  Heaven Benchmark, which made a big name by showcasing the hottest DirectX 11 technologies with the breathtaking art content. The company is also reaching the finishing line of developing  OilRush naval strategy game that proves flexibility of the technology.

About Unigine Corp.

Unigine Corp. is an international company focused on top-notch real-time 3D solutions. The development studio is located in Tomsk, Russia. Main activity of Unigine Corp. is development of Unigine™, a cross-platform engine for virtual 3D worlds.

Unigine Corp. is a registered developer of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (previously ATI Technologies Inc.), NVIDIA Corporation and Creative Labs Inc. The company also has a license to develop tools and middleware for PLAYSTATION®3 platform.