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MLS Laserlock	www.laserlock.com

Palm Inc.	www.palm.com
After several years of nothing, handhelds finally made a reasonable appearance at the GDC. Along with several wireless and cell-phone companies chiming in, handheld mainstay Palm was there to show off their new "developer alliance" at www.palmos.com/alliance/join

Motorola	www.motorola.com
Motorola was all about gizmos. Phones, pagers, tiny keyboarded internet thingies. Gizmos a plenty. They're itching for folks to develop for these, so get to work! Motorola's other thing was a very nice set-top box built on the NUON chipset. It's a video-on-demand box. It's a DVD player. It plays games (like the hypnotic arcade game shown). All it needs is a cable-based network to hook it up to.

Singular Inversions	www.FaceGen.com

Applied Microsystems Corporation	www.amc.com
Applied Microsystems is a maker of development technology for XBox and Nintendo GameCube. Their main product is a DVD emulator that helps you optimally lay out the bits on a DVD and test on a device without the expense of burning a DVD.

Soundelux Media Labs	www.soundelux.com

Jim Henson Interactive	www.henson.com

Arcade Planet	www.arcadeplanet.com
Arcade Planet was showing off their revenue-producing model for games and trying to get folks to deploy games under their system. If you're a small developer, you might want to check 'em out. If your game ends up running under their system, you get 12% of the money your game makes.

Oregon 3D
IT WILL BE MINE! Oregon3D showed off their new screen technology that gives you a 150-degree projection screen. It's not completely immersive, but it's pretty cool.

Giant Studios	www.giantstudios.com

Morgan Kaufman Publishers	www.mkp.com
Morgan Kaufman publishers is showing off their latest hit 3D Game Engine Design.

Pacific Media Worx	www.pacmedia.com

Codeplay limited

www.codeplay.com

CodePlay, the VectorC folks, were newcomers to the GDC with a no-nonsense booth with some impressive demos running on the outside. They've got a nice new C compiler with lots of new processor-specific optimizations. Nicest things is that they include lots of processor-sensing code, so it's easy to put all your math-code into a .DLL, so you can easily tailor your game for a specific processor, like Athlon, without abandoning the other processors. Other nice thing is that the compiler can be used as a drop-in replacement for Visual C++, so you don't have to lose a familiar environment.

House of Moves	www.moves.com

Paraworld AG	www.paraworld.com

Sony Electronics, Inc.	www.sony.com/aibo
Sony tried to evangelize the Aibo SDK as a possible solution to generalized robot control, but I don't think anyone was buying into the notion.

Technicolor	www.technicolor.com
Turns out Technicolor is more than just that movie credit you see. They've been soaking up royalties for 50 or so years, so they went into production! They're a full-service duplication house for magnetic or optical media, and they can do everything from simple CD duplication to complete turnkey product-boxing.

Developer's Choice Pavilion
The Game Developer's Choice pavilion was underwheming on all levels. Nothing but a few recent titles that you could play at will. It seemed to be a way of filling up space.

WildTangent	www.wildtangent.com
And these folks have an entry in the Independent Games Festival? Sheesh.

Numerical Design Limited	www.ndl.com