GEC NEWS WIREWILL enables users to capture, shape and share ideas; regardless of place, time and technology platforms
Introducing WILL- the Wacom Ink Layer Language – Wacom invites the industry to join the initiative to make the world a more creative place. WILL offers a new universal standard that creates a natural and high quality ink experience. It guarantees cross compatibility of ink data that enables users to freely communicate and collaborate across hardware, ecosystems, as well as the Cloud. WILL will bring digital inking to people as the most powerful tool of personal creativity and expression.
“Ideas are going to change the world, not the hardware or software. People’s ideas are the real content that shapes the future”, said Masahiko Yamada, President and CEO of Wacom.
WILL is delivered by Wacom to partners as a Software Developer’s Kit (SDK) to integrate into their hardware or software, ecosystem or enterprise infrastructure – enabling everyone to speak the same universal inking language. WILL will also come with an ink engine with a variety of graphical tools and features that will run consistently on most existing platforms. Its innovative ink data format is an abstract language that describes strokes independent from any particular input technology. WILL contains a set of development Application Programming Interfaces (API), to make use of hardware features. This, in particular, is one of the strengths that Wacom has developed over 20 years in pen input technology.
Being a high level referential framework – a computer language – WILL is open to different input technologies including finger touch, various Wacom pens, as well as third-party pen technologies. Upcoming Wacom technologies will also include WILL support as an integral part of their feature set.
In addition to individual note taking, idea sharing and group collaboration; WILL could be used to create an unlimited canvas space for a global brainstorming, collaboration and project management.
