VM Labs

VM Labs was a semiconductor and platform company, founded in 1995 in Los Altos, California. The company's technology and NUON brand was used in DVD players from Toshiba, Samsung and RCA, as well as the Streamaster IP set-top box from Motorola. The NUON platform was featured in the specialized media for the 3D video game titles it would bring to DVD players and set-top boxes, as well as for the features that were not available on other DVD players when playing standard DVD-formatted titles. Notable embedded features included Jeff Minter's Virtual Light Machine for music, real-time zoom, gamma-correction and smooth reverse shuttle. Although NUON was initially supported by various Hollywood studios with plans to release several enhanced DVD titles, only four were ultimately released, including Bedazzled and Planet of the Apes. The founder of VM Labs, Richard Miller, was a former vice president of Atari Corporation, and several prominent VM Labs employees were also associated with Atari Corporation. After critical funding collapsed shortly after September 11, 2001, VM Labs was sold to Genesis Microchip after a brief period in Chapter 11.