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VR TOOLBOX, INC. SHIPS WINDOWS VERSIONS OF ITS ENTIRE PRODUCT LINE OF AUTHORING TOOLS FOR QUICKTIME VR.

Pittsburgh, PA, February 19, 1999 -- VR Toolbox, Inc.™ today officially announced that it would begin shipping the Windows™ versions of VR ObjectWorx™, VR PanoWorx™ and VR SceneWorx™, the second week of March 1999. This will put the company in the unique position of being the only maker of full-featured authoring tools for QuickTime VR™, whose entire product line is available cross-platform. VR Toolbox began introducing its line of QTVR™ tools in October 1998, when it shipped the Macintosh™ versions of VR ObjectWorx and VR PanoWorx. It rounded out the offering the first week of January 1999, when it began shipping VR SceneWorx™ for Macintosh. Now all three of these tools are available for Windows. This spring, the company will offer its yet-to-be-released suite of tools, The VR Worx™, for both Macintosh and Windows platforms.

The tools create files that are interchangeable between platforms. A user can begin a panoramic project with VR PanoWorx for Macintosh and finish the same project by opening the file in VR PanoWorx for Windows, and vice versa. The Windows versions encompass all but a few features of their Macintosh siblings. The built-in Image Editor is not yet available for Windows, and VR ObjectWorx does not support sound or blue-screening as its Macintosh counterpart does. VR Toolbox promises to include these along with features new to both platform versions, in future upgrades.

The VR Toolbox current product line is comprised of VR ObjectWorx, VR PanoWorx and VR SceneWorx. At the core of the line are authoring tools that produce the two basic elements of QuickTime VR, panoramic movies (VR PanoWorx) and object movies (VR ObjectWorx). It is rounded out with VR SceneWorx, a multi-node scene designer that creates photo-realistic, interactive, virtual environments quickly, simply and professionally on the desktop computer. VR PanoWorx produces interactive, 360-degree, virtual QTVR panoramic movies, allowing the viewer to turn in all directions to see a vista from every angle. VR ObjectWorx generates interactive QTVR object movies, which simulate the illusion of the viewer holding an object in the hand and rotating it to view it from all sides. VR SceneWorx combines panoramas, objects, still images and linear QuickTime™ movies into an immersive imagery experience for audiences on the Internet and in multimedia environments. Encompassing many QTVR capabilities along with features and functions that no other programs offer, VR Toolbox touts its product line as the ideal QTVR tools for content providers. Plus, VR Toolbox can now claim one other advantage, the products are the only ones available for both Macintosh and Windows.

Both platforms have the same retail pricing structure: VR PanoWorx and VR ObjectWorx sell for $149.99 and VR SceneWorx sells for $89.99.

VR Toolbox, Inc. is a young company that made its debut on July 21, 1998 at SIGGRAPH 98 in Orlando, Florida. The company's focus is the development and marketing of software tools for QuickTime VR. VR Toolbox aims to deliver precision, power and professionalism to all segments of the Immersive Imaging market, including professional photographers, web developers, multimedia producers, educators and hobbyists. VR Toolbox, Inc. has acquired this technology from its creators, Florida-based Econ Technologies, Inc. Pittsburgh-based VR Toolbox, Inc. promises to continually strive to be an exciting, important and influential force within the Immersive Imaging industry and its emerging technologies. VR Toolbox's financial strength comes from the same source as that of its sister company, Emery Manufacturing & Equipment, Inc.(TM), makers of high line object rotational devices and hardware for the Immersive Imaging photographic professional.

Apple Computer, Inc.(TM) developed QuickTime VR as an integral aspect of its QuickTime media layer. Through Apple's vigorous support of the technology's adoption as an industry standard, QuickTime is succeeding in becoming the cross-platform standard, worldwide. And now, with Apple's release of QuickTime 3.0 for Windows and Macintosh, QuickTime VR v2.1 and streaming QuickTime Plug-In v2.0, that standard's acceptance is being achieved. QuickTime VR is an extension of Apple's basic QuickTime technology and supports two different types of views, QTVR panorama movies and QTVR object movies.

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More information is available on the VR Toolbox web site at http://www.vrtoolbox.com.
VR Toolbox, Inc.
P.O. Box 111419
Pittsburgh, PA 15238
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