The company was formed by Angle PLC an LSE listed company (LSE:AGL) in 2005. The project was led by
Chris J. L. Doran as a
spin out from
Cambridge University. Its chief executive included Gary Lewis, who prior to joining the company was the Global Chief Operating Officer at
Take 2 Interactive in
New York. The development of Enlighten started in 2006 and saw major distribution with the release of
Battlefield 3 in 2011 and updates to ongoing
massively multiplayer online game Eve Online. According to the company, "Enlighten's revolutionary technology ensures that, for the first time, lighting can be updated in real time, in game, on today's consoles." The terms of the deal were not made public. In July 2014, Geomerics was awarded £1 million from the United Kingdom's Technology Strategy Board (TSB) to take the company's real-time graphics capabilities from computer gaming to film-making. ==See also==