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VR TOOLBOX, INC.™ ANNOUNCES SPECIAL COMPETITIVE UPGRADE OFFER. COMPANY'S NEWEST QTVR™ TOOL TO DEBUT ON WEB SITE.

Pittsburgh, PA, November 19, 1998 -- VR Toolbox, Inc.™ announced today that it has begun its Special Competitive Upgrade Offer, recently promised by the company, to celebrate the shipping of its first software products. VR Toolbox also announced that it will feature a Public Beta Demo of its newest tool VR SceneWorx™, available for download from the VR Toolbox web site at http://www.vrtoolbox.com.

The Special Competitive Upgrade Offer is in effect immediately. This offer coincides with the shipping of the company's first products, VR PanoWorx™ and VR ObjectWorx™. It's a limited time offer, running through December 19, 1998. Here are the details: for $39.99 plus s&h, customers can choose VR PanoWorx or VR ObjectWorx, when proof of ownership of a competing QuickTime VR™ authoring program, from any manufacturer, is faxed to the company at 412-767-4090. These are full working versions complete with registration numbers, manuals and tech support. Customers can call toll-free 1-877-878-6657 or e-mail sales@vrtoolbox.com to take advantage of this limited time special.

Beginning Friday, November 20, VR Toolbox will offer visitors to its web site a demo of VR SceneWorx™. VR SceneWorx is a multi-node scene designer, which combines elements such as QTVR panoramic and object movies, as well as still images and linear movies into a comprehensive interactive experience. This Public Beta Demo will be a full working evaluation copy with a time expiration of December 31st. It can be downloaded from http://www.vrtoolbox.com. Along with VR PanoWorx and VR ObjectWorx, VR SceneWorx will complete the QTVR picture.

The first VR Toolbox products are VR PanoWorx and VR ObjectWorx for the Mac OS™. They are authoring tools that produce the two basic elements of QuickTime VR, panoramic movies (VR PanoWorx) and object movies (VR ObjectWorx).

During October's PhotoPlus Expo, VR Toolbox unveiled and demonstrated the next two products in the line, VR SceneWorx™ for the Mac OS and VR PanoWorx for Windows™. VR PanoWorx for Windows represents the most comprehensive and intuitive QTVR pano tool that the Windows environment has ever seen. VR PanoWorx for Windows is the first of the product line to be released for the Windows environment, with VR ObjectWorx for Windows and VR SceneWorx for Windows to follow at the beginning of the year. Still to come is VR Toolbox's suite of QTVR tools, The VR Worx™, combining all the company's QuickTime VR solutions in a unique studio environment. Soon to be released, the company touts it as the ideal tool suite for the user who requires all that QuickTime VR has to offer. Like the other products in the VR Toolbox collection, it will debut for the Mac OS, with the Windows version quick to follow.

Both VR PanoWorx and VR ObjectWorx sell for $149.99 and VR SceneWorx sells for $89.99. All are available directly from VR Toolbox. A reseller and distributor program is being developed in order to make the product line readily available worldwide. The entire product line will be available for both Windows and the Mac OS. The first releases are aimed at the Mac OS with Windows versions beginning to ship in December. VR Toolbox offers full working evaluation copies of its software, available for download at www.vrtoolbox.com.

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.™, makers of high line object rotational devices and hardware for the Immersive Imaging photographic professional.

Apple Computer, Inc.™ 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 recent release of QuickTime 3.0, 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.

Interest by the Press in reviewing VR Toolbox products and/or including the products in relative articles and features will be given high-priority support. Please contact VR Toolbox at Company Information.

Look for VR Toolbox at Macworld San Francisco, January 5 through 8, 1999 in Booth # 3726.

Distributor, Reseller and Dealer inquiries are welcome.

Visit the VR Toolbox web site at http://www.vrtoolbox.com.

VR Toolbox, Inc.
P.O. Box 111419
Pittsburgh, PA 15238
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http://www.vrtoolbox.com

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