Kynogon

Kynogon was a computer software company that provided AI middleware to the video game and the simulation industries. The company was acquired by Autodesk in February 2008,[1] and its flagship product was titled Autodesk Navigation. Autodesk ended the sale of Navigation in July 2017.[2]

History

Kynogon was founded in France in 2000 by Pierre Pontevia and Jacques Gaubil. It also has offices in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and the UK. Kynogon has won many awards such as Red Herring 100 or Develop Industry Excellence.[3]

Kynogon partners

In the video game domain, Kynogon maintains partnerships with console makers (Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo). Kynogon is a member of Epic Games's integrated partner program and Kynapse is available as integrated into the Unreal Engine. Kynogon also works with other complementary middleware developers (Ageia, Emergent Game Technologies, Trinigy).[4]

In the simulation industry, Kynogon partners with MAK Technologies and is the developer of BHave, a plug-in to VR-Forces CGF.

gollark: ... no.
gollark: I think I'm somewhat safer than average due to running my phone without Google services and carefully monitoring apps' location use, but the phone network also leaks location data horribly.
gollark: t!profile
gollark: What level?
gollark: More "let us exchange our preferred one-sentence retorts against [OUTGROUP OPINIONS]" than anything which is actually likely to lead to anything good.

References
  1. "Autodesk Completes Acquisition of Kynogon SA". Archived from the original on 2012-04-19.
  2. 3DVF. "Autodesk cesse la vente de Scaleform, Beast, HumanIK et Navigation - 3DVF.com". www.3dvf.com (in French). Retrieved 2017-10-20.
  3. "Finalists for the Red Herring 100 Europe Awards" (PDF). April 2019.
  4. "Kynapse A.I. gets smoothly integrated into Trinigy's Vision Engine". GamesIndustry.biz. Retrieved 2019-04-07.
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