New Java Standard for 3D

RNS Number:6514R
Superscape Group PLC
04 November 2003

                                                               4th November 2003



                          SUPERSCAPE GROUP PLC

SUPERSCAPE FIRST TO MARKET FOLLOWING RATIFICATION OF NEW JAVA STANDARD FOR 3D ON
                               MOBILE PHONES



Superscape Group plc (LSE: SPS) announces that following the official
ratification today by the Java Standards Community of JSR 184 - to be known as
the Mobile 3D Graphics API - the company's Swerve technology is the world's
first commercially available implementation of this standard for delivering rich
media 3D on mobile devices.

The new award winning Mobile 3D Graphics API standard is the result of more than
a year's development work by a highly experienced Expert Group of the Java
community.  Superscape was a founder member of this Group, which also included
Nokia, Vodafone, Siemens, ARM, Sony Ericcson and Motorola.  Having been
intimately involved in every aspect of the development of this new global
standard, Superscape has been ideally placed to develop a standards-compliant 3D
engine, authoring tools and associated content - branded as Swerve.

Superscape's Swerve software has been developed in close collaboration with ARM.
Swerve Client (the engine) has been optimised to run on a single ARM 9 (or
above) processor and can also use any available hardware acceleration on the
handset using OpenGL ES. It provides an elegant and cost-effective means of
delivering console quality, high performance 3D applications, including games,
on mass-market mobile phones.  Swerve Studio (the authoring tool) is a fully
compliant development environment for creating console quality interactive 3D
applications for wireless devices.  It is based on the industry-standard design
software, 3D Studio MaxTM.

Recent agreements with Siemens, Samsung and Motorola, as well as a number of
major content and brand organisations, including Sony, have provided strong
endorsement of the leading position of Superscape's Swerve technology in the
global mobile marketplace.

Kevin Roberts, CEO, Superscape Group plc said:  "The final ratification of this
standard represents a significant milestone for Superscape and the culmination
of many months of highly focused development work together with other key
players in the Java community.  The new standard - to which our Swerve
technology has been designed to be fully compliant - will enable the over the
air (OTA) delivery of console quality Java games, a sector that is predicted to
account for 88.3 per cent of total mobile game sales of just below $7 billion in
Europe in 2006".



About Superscape

Superscape specialises in 3D technology for Java (JSR 184) and native wireless
environments. Swerve is a complete solution comprising a software-only 3D
engine, a powerful development tool (integrated into 3ds maxTM) and a catalogue
of 3D games available for licensing.

Superscape is quoted on the London Stock Exchange and has corporate offices in
Hook, Hampshire (UK) and San Clemente, California (USA).


For further information, please contact:


Superscape Group plc
Maggie Templeman
Director, Corporate Communications
Telephone:  [phone]
Email:  [e-mail]


Hudson Sandler Limited
Andrew Hayes / Jessica Rouleau
Tel: [phone]


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