ParaGraph's VRML Sales Surpass 150,000 Units in 1996; Virtual Home Space Builder Leads VRML Authoring Market.CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 29, 1997--ParaGraph International(R) Inc. today announced 1996 sales of over 150,000 units of its Virtual Home Space Builder(TM) (VHSB) software for creating 3D Internet Web sites. These strong sales, which include direct and co-marketing sales with partners such as Broderbund, Corel, and Mitsubishi/People World in the U.S. and internationally, make VHSB the industry's best selling VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) A 3D graphics language used on the Web. After downloading a VRML page, its contents can be viewed, rotated and manipulated. Simulated rooms can be "walked into." The VRML viewer is launched from within the Web browser. authoring tool. VHSB allows users to quickly and easily create 3D multimedia home pages for the World Wide Web. The software's VRML export means that multimedia 3D Spaces created with VHSB can be viewed by millions of Internet users using industry-standard VRML browsers, such as Cosmo(TM) Player from Silicon Graphics Inc. VHSB, which costs $49.95, is available for purchase directly from ParaGraph's Web site or by calling 800/810-0055. "VHSB's outstanding sales figures sales figures npl → cifras fpl de ventas shows that there is a vibrant VRML market developing and that ParaGraph is setting the pace in VRML 2.0 authoring tools," said Gregory Slayton, president of ParaGraph International. "ParaGraph is quickly moving forward in its VRML efforts: not only will we have the world's first integrated suite of VRML 2.0 authoring tools out later this spring, but we will introduce a fully scaleable, Living Worlds-compliant server solution that scales easily from Win 95 and NT platforms to high end UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). machines." "These people consistently build VRML apps that are both the fastest and the easiest to use in their class. The interface is highly customizable and, I think, quite brilliant," said Graeme Bennett Greame Bennett is the Director of Football at Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C.. Sometimes known as "Grassa", Bennett has featured regularly in the sports pages over recent years, as spokesman for the club commenting on the departure of the latest of a string of managers from the , Editor, VRML News. Besides VHSB 2.0, ParaGraph also markets the Internet3D(TM) family of VRML 2.0 authoring tools, which includes tools for 3D world authoring and will include tools for avatar authoring, behavior modeling, and a multi-user server component. Adding to VHSB's intuitive user interface, ParaGraph's Internet3D Space Builder (ISB), is a VRML 2.0 authoring tool for easily creating sophisticated 3D Internet worlds. ISB combines powerful 3D creation and publishing functions with flexible texturing of worlds using any image files or digital ink. ParaGraph's Internet3D Avatar Builder(TM) will allow anyone to easily assemble 3D avatars by simply dragging and dropping body parts and elementary movements, enabling avatars to demonstrate complex lifelike behaviors in Cyberspace Coined by William Gibson in his 1984 novel "Neuromancer," it is a futuristic computer network that people use by plugging their minds into it! The term now refers to the Internet or to the online or digital world in general. See Internet and virtual reality. Contrast with meatspace. . ParaGraph's Internet3D Behavior Builder(TM) will allow users to drag and drop A graphical user interface (GUI) capability that lets you perform operations by moving the icon of an object with the mouse into another window or onto another icon. For example, files can be copied or moved by dragging them from one folder to another. generic and customized behaviors to VRML 2.0 objects. ParaGraph's Internet3D Multi-User Server(TM) allows multi-user interaction within 3D environments, including motion, shared state and digital ink transmission, with easy scaling from 2 to 1000 simultaneous users. Company Overview Founded in 1989, ParaGraph International, Inc. is a leader in the development of Internet Virtual Reality (IVR (Interactive Voice Response) An automated telephone information system that speaks to the caller with a combination of fixed voice menus and data extracted from databases in real time. ) and Internet Digital Ink (IDI IDI ICC (International Cricket Conference) Development International Conference) IDI Israel Democracy Institute IDI I Doubt It IDI Initial Domain Identifier IDI In-Depth Interview ) software technologies and products that enable millions of home pages to have 3D and multi-user communications in a variety of formats. ParaGraph brought the first cross-platform VRML 1.0 and VRML 2.0 authoring tools to the PC's market (Virtual Home Space Builder 1.0 and 2.0). ParaGraph's engineers have taken a leadership role in the development of all three critical IVR standards and standards proposals, including VRML 2.0, VRML Avatars (Living Worlds) and the VRML Binary File A computer file format in which each character position can hold any one of 256 different binary codes. Binary files are contrasted to "ASCII files," which contain a smaller set of codes for only alphabetic letters, numeric digits, special symbols and a few control codes. format. ParaGraph's patented compression and recognition technologies enable efficient multi-user implementations of digital ink over the Internet. ParaGraph's team of 100 world-class scientists, engineers and digital artists is located in the Silicon Valley and Moscow. ParaGraph's corporate customers include many of the world's most respected corporations such as Apple, Disney Online, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Microsoft, Mitsubishi and others. To get more information on ParaGraph International, please visit ParaGraph's Web site at www.paragraph.com . CONTACT: ParaGraph International Inc. John Poluektov, 408/364-7700 john@paragraph.com or Horizon Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Josephine Mong, 408/982-2555 Website: www.horizonpr.com jmong@horizonpr.com |
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