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Graphical language aims to do away with proprietary digital styluses |
February 26, 2014
Wacom has grand designs for a new graphical language that, it says, will allow input and sharing of writing movements across multiple platforms, with or without one of its trademark digital styluses.WILL, short for Wacom Ink Layer Language, will store pen strokes in a Stroke File Format and allow them to be streamed using its Stroke Messaging Format. The file formats capture not only coordinates and pressure, but also who made an ink stroke, and when, said Heidi Wang, Wacom’s senior global product manager for consumer products, at a news conference at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Wednesday.The Japanese company plans to offer WILL SDKs (software development kits) for capturing and rendering the file formats for major operating systems including iOS, Android, OS X and Windows—and even for Web browsers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2102320/graphical-language-aims-to-do-away-with-proprietary-digital-styluses.html#tk.rss_all
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