Credo Brings Character Motion to Active Worlds; The Active Avatars Collection Enhances Online Experience.NEWBURYPORT Newburyport, city (1990 pop. 16,317), a seat of Essex co., NE Mass., at the mouth of the Merrimack River; settled 1635, set off from Newbury and inc. 1764. Its silverware industry dates from colonial times; textiles, scientific instruments, and electronic equipment , Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 7, 1999-- Activeworlds.com, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board OTC Bulletin Board An electronic quotation listing of the bid and asked prices of OTC stocks that do not meet the requirements to be listed on the NASDAQ stock-listing system. : AWLD)- Credo Credo A Latin word which means "a set of fundamental beliefs or a guiding principle.” For a company, a credo is like a mission statement. Notes: For example, Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart, established the "Three Basic Beliefs” as his company's credo. Interactive, The Character Motion Company, announced Active Avatars, a scaleable Avatar solution for Active Worlds builders. An avatar is a computer representation of a user on the computer and Active Avatars brings Credo's character motion technology to Active Worlds. Active Avatars enhance the experience of real-world motion in virtual space. Actions supplied with the Avatars include: sit, spin, flip, cheer, shrug and more. Appealing to all levels of 3D Worlds Builders, the collection is available in a variety of file formats that provide everything from simple drag-and-drop In computer graphical user interfaces, drag-and-drop is the action of (or support for the action of) clicking on a virtual object and dragging it to a different location or onto another virtual object. to fully editable solutions. Bart Noun 1. Bart - a member of the British order of honor; ranks below a baron but above a knight; "since he was a baronet he had to be addressed as Sir Henry Jones, Bart." baronet aristocrat, blue blood, patrician - a member of the aristocracy Copeland, president of Credo Interactive Inc., described the Active Avatars collection "as part of Credo's ongoing contribution to the growth of the 3D experience on the web", and emphasized the need for good character motion solutions in the space. "User friendliness is what makes Active Worlds so appealing to our user base and the Active Avatars collection complements this concept by giving our users a simple way of adding new motions to their avatars" said JP McCormick, Chairman of Activeworlds.com, Inc. About Credo Interactive Inc. (http://www.CharacterMotion.com) Credo Interactive Inc. is a leading developer of 3D character motion technology. Recently identified as one of Canada's top-25 up-and-coming software companies by the Financial Post, Credo Interactive continues to create new and exciting character motion products, including the PowerMoves, the ultimate 3D animation library, and Life Forms, an innovative 3D character movement tool. About Activeworlds.com, Inc. (http://www.activeworlds.com) Active Worlds unique technology allows thousands of simultaneous users to build and explore 3D content on the internet in the same shared environment, ideally suited for such applications as e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. , chat, and distance learning. Activeworlds.com, Inc. has a worldwide user base of over 900,000. Activeworlds.com, Inc. offers a complete range of client, server, and development applications in a turnkey See turnkey system. approach that enables the individual and business users to create rich and compelling online 3-D worlds. The company's 3-D multi-user environment, Active Worlds, is leading the trend towards "social" computing computing - computer in 3-D, to create a sense of virtual reality. Unlike many other 3D technologies, Active Worlds is totally internet based and does not require CD-ROMS or high bandwidth connections to display rich 3D content over the web. |
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