Be Here Announces Streaming Agreement With Intel Internet Media Services; 360-Degree Streaming Internet Video To Provide Richest Viewer Experience.

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CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 11, 2000

Be Here, the leading provider of Internet 360-degree video technology, today announced that it will use Intel(R) Internet Media Services as a streaming media provider. Be Here is fundamentally changing the way in which news, sports and entertainment is presented by providing turn-key solutions for distributing 360-degree Internet video. Be Here plans to use Intel's Internet Media services in order to provide a full range of video hosting services to its customers and to deliver rich 360-degree Internet video content onto Be Here's "360-Degree Gallery Website," ensuring the best user-experience for consumers.

"Our mission is to deliver the highest quality and most satisfying user-experience with our technology," said Ted Driscoll, Be Here's founder and CEO. "We look forward to augmenting our technology with Intel Internet Media Services to provide our customers' audiences with a high quality interactive and personalized experience when viewing 360-degree Internet video. Our agreement with Intel Internet Media Services will help us offer a reliable, scaleable and global solution to deliver high-quality video and audio content over the Web," Driscoll added.

"We are building a highly reliable, global and scalable network designed expressly to stream audio and video over the Internet," said Mike Witteman, director of service technology, Intel Internet Media Services. "We are happy to be working with Be Here to help make robust streaming media over the Internet a reality."

Streaming Video Reaches New Heights

The combination of Intel's Internet Media Services and Be Here's technology platform, will offer consumers a high level of personalized interactivity while visiting Be Here's 360-degree Gallery. Also, Be Here's customers' audiences from around the world will be ensured the richest viewing experience of 360-degree Internet video. Be Here's open platform technology is ideal for both narrowband and broadband users. Be Here's patented, "360lens" optical system captures the full 360-degree environment in a single, seamless image. The company's software transforms the single, seamless image, in real time or batch mode, into video that can be edited with industry standard tools such as Adobe Premiere and/or encoded with RealProducer, Windows Media Encoder or Apple's QuickTimePro.

About Intel Internet Media Services

Intel Internet Media Services is part of Intel's New Business Group, which was formed to grow new Internet-related services and products in support of Intel's mission to be the building block supplier to the worldwide Internet economy. The Intel Internet Media Services business will enable companies worldwide to deliver content such as live concerts, feature films, talk radio, training and financial briefings over the Internet with a higher level of reliability and quality.

About Be Here

Be Here Corporation is the leading provider of Internet 360-degree video technology used worldwide by entertainment, news and sports Webcasters. Be Here delivers live and recorded streaming 360-degree Internet video with levels of personalization, context and involvement that other mediums or technologies simply cannot achieve. Be Here-powered Internet programming makes good on the promise of interactive viewing by enabling viewers to "look around" at an event at will -- just as if they were at the event itself. Viewers control personalized 360-degree camera angles independent of other viewers to gain an impactful, "be here" experience. Be Here's easy-to-use, open platform solutions have been employed by the National Football League to webcast the Superbowl XXXIV, ESPN for the Summer and Winter X Games and by BMG for the Sundance Film Festival Music Studio. The company is headquartered in Cupertino, Calif. For more information about Be Here, visit its World Wide Web site at http://www.BeHere.com.