Black Diamond and Live Picture join forces to provide RealSpace Panoramic photo/viewing tools & services for the World Wide Web.LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 10, 1997--INTERNET WORLD Black Diamond Consulting, Inc., and Live Picture, Inc., today announced a strategic alliance whereby Black Diamond will bundle and distribute Live Picture's PhotoVista image stitching Image stitching or photo stitching is the process of combining multiple images to produce a panorama or larger image. Computer software is often used to interpolate the final image where the component images are not in precise alignment. This is usually done in three stages. tool and RealSpace viewer with Black Diamond's Surround Video Microsoft announced Surround Video as a vaporware competitor to Apple's QuickTime VR. It was breathlessly evaluated by reviewers as an equal to Quicktime VR, despite having never shipped as an actual product. product suite. Furthermore, the alliance makes available the engineering and consulting resources of Black Diamond to corporate customers requiring development guidance and assistance with the integration of Live Picture's RealSpace products into Internet and Intranet environments. "We saw a natural fit between Live Picture's PhotoVista and Surround Video products, said Lyle Speirs, President of Black Diamond. "Surround Video is used by developers to create dynamic desktop and Internet-ready multimedia titles with viewing, navigation and manipulation of 360 panoramic images. PhotoVista fills out our product suite by providing users the ability to use any camera, 35mm, digital or 360, to capture photographic images, easily stitch them together and import the file to the Surround Video editor for the addition of hot spots hot spots acute moist dermatitis. , text, sound and other special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques. ." The combined Live Picture and Black Diamond solution also provides customers with the option to use the Live Picture RealSpace viewer software for web site creation or for viewing RealSpace enabled sites on the Internet. Eric Chen, Vice President of product development at Live Picture said, "We are very pleased to provide exciting new technology and tools to assist web developers in the creation of panoramic images that can take advantage of the Surround Video product. The bundling of Live Picture's RealSpace technology with Black Diamond products brings one of the best tools and options available to developers creating visually exiting web sites." Chen adds, "the contemporary engineering expertise and enterprise consulting experience Black Diamond brings to the joint effort provides customers with a dynamic solution to the integration of Live Picture's RealSpace technology and products into their environments." About Black Diamond Black Diamond is committed to providing Internet and multimedia panoramic imaging software products and contemporary software engineering services. Current products include Surround Video, a collection of tools that developers can use to add 360 panoramic images to an application, as well as an ActiveX control A software module based on Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM) architecture. It enables a program to add functionality by calling ready-made components that blend in and appear as normal parts of the program. to allow the use of Surround Video images in HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. documents, Web pages or Office97 (including Word, Excel and PowerPoint), from Microsoft. Surround Video supports progressive rendering, real-time image correction, hot spotting with URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. links, sound and cursor-sensitive text for the development of Internet and native multimedia titles. Roger Dunn and Lyle Speirs, formerly of KPMG KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (accounting firm) KPMG Kaiser Permanente Medical Group KPMG Keiner Prüft Mehr Genau (German) KPMG Kommen Prüfen Meckern Gehen Peat Marwick, founded Black Diamond in 1994. The company is privately held with headquarters in Portsmouth, NH, and offices in San Mateo, CA and Kirkland, WA, and can be seen on the web at www.bdiamond.com . About Live Picture Live Picture, Inc. is the leading provider of Internet imaging solutions that enable photorealistic Having the image quality of a photograph. interactivity for the next generation of the Web. The company's RealSpace solutions transform Web sites into photospacial environments where customers can interact with products, images, and services in a revolutionary manner that is both visually entertaining and highly informative. Photospacial experiences mark a significant advancement in Internet interactivity and equip customers with the level of information they need to make informed business decisions and confident purchases on the Web. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Scotts Valley, California Scotts Valley is a small city located in eastern Santa Cruz County, California, United States, about ten miles (16 km) south of San Jose and six miles (10 km) north of the beach in the upland slope of the Santa Cruz Mountains. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 11,385. , Live Picture is on the Internet at www.livepicture.com . Black Diamond Consulting, Surround Video and Surround Video SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Black Diamond Consulting, Inc., in the United States and/or other countries. Microsoft, ActiveX, Visual Basic, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Office97 and Windows NT are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Live Picture is a registered trademark of Live Picture, Inc. RealSpace and PhotoVista are trademarks of Live Picture, Inc. CONTACT: Black Diamond, Inc. Andrew Lickly 603/430-7777 andrew@bdiamond.com Live Picture, Inc. Holly Fisher 408/430-4315 holly@livepicture.com |
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