ParaGraph International announces multimedia 3D World Creation Software for the next dimension in Web and Presentation Authoring; Virtual Home Space Builder 1.0, Commercial Edition, allows users to easily create 3D Home "Worlds" on the Internet with full audio, video and animation.CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 11, 1995--ParaGraph International today announced immediate availability of Virtual Home Space Builder 1.0 (VHSB) for the Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. OS family (95, NT and 3.1). VHSB allows anyone to easily create interactive 3D presentations or Web sites that include real-time, interactive 3D graphics and full multimedia capabilities (sound, video, animation, guided tours). An evaluation copy of VHSB is available at no charge from ParaGraph's Home Page at http://www.paragraph.com. VHSB 1.0 is the first software package to create a new paradigm New Paradigm In the investing world, a totally new way of doing things that has a huge effect on business. Notes: The word "paradigm" is defined as a pattern or model, and it has been used in science to refer to a theoretical framework. for online/interactive content creation and presentations: 3D "Home Spaces." Unlike text-oriented 2D "pages" the current standard on the Web, VHSB Home Spaces allow real-time, interactive 3D graphics and multimedia excitement for Web surfers. Presentations and Home Spaces on the Net take on new impact as users wander in real-time through virtual museums, galleries, buildings, even cities, limited only by the creativity and imagination of its creator. For Internet worlds, VHSB 1.0 enables any part of a created environment to act as a 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. link and users can easily incorporate text, sound, video or animations into their Home Spaces. VHSB 1.0 allows users with no programming background to quickly and effectively create rich, personalized environments that would normally take weeks of custom coding with any other software. To maximize the product's usefulness, VHSB can also be used as a multimedia presentation software package for sales, training or in-house presentations. Incorporating a simple, icon-oriented user interface with point-and-click, drag-and-drop tools, VHSB can be learned in only a few minutes and mastered in a few hours to create stunning interactive presentations and worlds. Users can also easily create pre-planned "walking tours" of a world or enable random exploration of an environment. To further enhance the appearance and creation of virtual environments and presentations, ParaGraph bundles hundreds of world templates, textures, movies and sound files with VHSB. Users can easily import their own multimedia (audio/graphic/video/animation) files directly into the program to add personalized content to their Home Spaces. 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. Features Home Spaces can be saved in the industry-standard VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language (virtual reality, language) Virtual Reality Modeling Language - (VRML) A draft specification for the design and implementation of a platform-independent language for virtual reality scene description. VRML 1.0 was released on 1995-05-26. http://vrml.org/. Wired. ) .WRL WRL Work Related Learning (UK education) WRL Western Research Laboratory (Compaq) WRL War Resisters' League WRL Worland, WY, USA - Worland (Airport Code) format or ParaGraph's own .MUS format for higher performance and complete multimedia functionality. VHSB is strictly compliant with the VRML 1.0 specification, meaning any world saved as a VRML file can be read by any VRML browser on any CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. platform. ParaGraph is providing its Virtual Home Space Viewer free of charge over the Internet and is working with Intervista Software Inc. (San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden ) and other browser companies to integrate the viewer into their VRML Web browsers The following is a list of web browsers. Historical Historically important browsers In order of release:
VHSB Applications and Capabilities -- Stand out from the 2D Web masses -- easy-to-create 3D Home Spaces provide a real competitive and audio/visual edge. -- Create fully 3D interactive multimedia business presentations -- rich, 3D interactive multimedia environments to host virtual communities on the Web. -- Bring advertising into a new dimension -- 3D messages enhanced with background music, voice-overs, animations and digital video. VHSB Advantages -- Easily create Home Spaces using an intuitive interface. -- Decorate Home Spaces with textures (including tiled and animated textures, textures with transparent colors) and pictures in a simple drag-and-drop environment. -- Audio functionality includes attaching sounds (WAV, RealAudio), recording sounds (WAV) and playing background music (MIDI). -- Animation functionality includes attaching and playing movies and video (AVI (Audio Video Interleaved) A Windows multimedia video format from Microsoft. It interleaves standard waveform audio and digital video frames (bitmaps) to provide reduced animation at 15 fps at 160x120x8 resolution. Audio is 11,025Hz, 8-bit samples. , FLI FLI - Flash Lights Impressively. ). -- Attach text and URLs to screen objects. -- Design and execute walking shows. -- Provide extended function attachments (launch executable modules, link Home Spaces). -- Support multifunction attachments (e.g. play sound clip, display text, and then launch to a URL). -- VHSB, Commercial Edition, includes an extended set of textures, movies, templates and sample Home Spaces. -- Automatically gather all media elements into a final distribution package. -- Export capability to VRML format with full VRML 1.0 compliance. ParaGraph and Industry Quotes "Beneath VHSB's simple interface lies enough power to satisfy the most creative imagination," said Dr. Stepan Pachikov Stepan Alexandrovich Pachikov (born February 1, 1950 in Vartashen, Azerbaijan) is the co-founder of ParaGraph Intl., Parascript, EverNote Corp. among other software companies which contributed heavily to the development of Handwriting recognition and VRML technologies. , president and chief executive officer of ParaGraph International. "Our goal is to extend the Web into a 3D universe where anyone can easily create and distribute stunning, personal worlds without tedious programming." Dr. Pachikov also noted, "VHSB is the first important step in ParaGraph's long-term vision: our Alter Ego A doctrine used by the courts to ignore the corporate status of a group of stockholders, officers, and directors of a corporation in reference to their limited liability so that they may be held personally liable for their actions when they have acted fraudulently or unjustly or when project aimed at joining the East and West using online 3D technology as a cultural bridge. VHSB is a unique product for communicating ideas and concepts across the Internet in a visual natural manner. "VHSB can not only redefine how we present ourselves in business, but also how we educate our children -- and that is something we can all be proud of." "VHSB, together with our WorldView world·view n. In both senses also called Weltanschauung. 1. The overall perspective from which one sees and interprets the world. 2. A collection of beliefs about life and the universe held by an individual or a group. browser, delivers the 3D promise of the Web as a graphic medium for business and personal expression," said Tony Parisi, president of Intervista Software Inc. and co-creator of the VRML standard. "Our cooperative efforts will enable WorldView users to experience VHSB's multimedia features within the browser environment. All VRML worlds are fully and accurately rendered in WorldView and we look forward to offering our customers the fastest, most complete VRML browser for personal computers." Availability and Hardware Requirements VHSB 1.0 Commercial Edition, which allows unlimited distribution rights for developed content and includes extensive media files and templates, is available at a price of $495. VHSB Final Beta is available for non-commercial (personal) use at a price of $49.95. Both products may be ordered by calling 800/810-0055. An evaluation version of the Final Beta (time-limited) may be downloaded at no charge from the ParaGraph Web site. The Virtual Home Space Video, ordering information for all ParaGraph products and a number of examples/links to VHSB worlds are all found at the ParaGraph site: (http://www.paragraph.com). VHSB 1.0 requires a minimum 386/33 CPU, 4 MB of RAM and a VGA (Video Graphics Array) The display standard for the PC. All PC display adapters support VGA, and Windows machines boot up in "VGA mode" before switching to higher resolutions. graphics board, and ParaGraph strongly recommends a 486/50 or higher and 8 MB of RAM for best rendering performance. In a marked departure from "bloatware Software that is so overloaded with functionality that its performance suffers. At the very least, it takes a long time to load the program. Software vendors have the perception that more is always better, or at least more marketable. See software bloat. " products, VHSB takes up less than 2 MB of disk space (.EXE Exe (ĕks), river, c.55 mi (90 km) long, rising in the Exmoor, Somerset, SW England, and flowing S across the Cornwall peninsula, past Exeter to the English Channel at Exmouth. and .DLL (1) See data link layer. (2) (Dynamic Link Library) An executable program module in Windows that performs one or more functions at runtime. DLLs are not launched by the user; they are called for by an executable program or by other DLLs. files). Company Information ParaGraph International's product line bridges a number of technologies, including 3D and VR applications, pen software, handwriting recognition Handwriting recognition is the ability of a computer to receive intelligible handwritten input. The image of the written text may be sensed "off line" from a piece of paper by optical scanning (optical character recognition). and compression technologies -- all centered around the company's unique understanding of algorithmic design and implementation. ParaGraph International's mission is to identify innovative software technologies throughout Russia, incubate incubate /in·cu·bate/ (in´ku-bat) 1. to subject to or to undergo incubation. 2. material that has undergone incubation. in·cu·bate v. 1. them in Moscow, and market them worldwide. During the early days of Perestroika, an entrepreneurial group of Russia's top scientists came together with the goal of building a technological and cultural bridge between Russia and the West. This eventually led to the founding of a U.S. company, ParaGraph International, in 1991. In addition to 3D technology, ParaGraph has also developed the world's leading cursive handwriting recognition technology and is a leader in voice/data compression technologies. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: Virtual Home Space Builder, Virtual Home Space Viewer and Home Space are trademarks of ParaGraph International. All other trademarks and registered trademarks previously cited are hereby acknowledged and recognized. Color photography for VHSB is available from Horizon or ParaGraph. CONTACT: ParaGraph International John Poluektov, 408/364-7740 email: john@paragraph.com http://www.paragraph.com or Intervista Software Tony Parisi, 415/434-8765 email: info@intervista.com http://www.intervista.com or Horizon PR for ParaGraph and Intervista Jonathan Hirshon, 408/982-2555 email: jh@horizonpr.com http://www.horizonpr.com |
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