Road Runner to Offer Worlds' 3D Internet Technology and Content
Story Filed: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 11:49 AM EST
BOSTON (April 28) BUSINESS WIRE -April 28, 1999--
Worlds Proprietary Music Oriented 3D Virtual World
Will Be Available on Road Runner in Late May
Worlds Inc. (OTC:WLDI; www.worlds.com), a pioneer in three dimensional (3D) internet technology
and content, announced that Road Runner, the high-speed online service owned by Time Warner,
MediaOne Group, Microsoft Corp., Compaq Corp., and Advance/Newhouse, would begin offering, in
late-May, a 3D virtual music environment created by Worlds Inc.
The Worlds agreement with Road Runner will permit all Road Runner subscribers to participate in an
entirely new, interactive online experience.
Worlds was tapped by Road Runner to create a Road Runner/Worlds.com co-branded area on the
Road Runner service. This co-branded area will highlight the latest technology in the Road Runner
music channel. This agreement with Worlds is the first entered into by Road Runner with a 3D
technology and broadband content provider for the Road Runner music channel. Financial terms of the
relationship were not disclosed.
According to David Gollob, Director of Business Development at Road Runner, "We are extremely
pleased to be working with Worlds on this highly interactive virtual reality experience. I believe efforts
like this further our strategy of showcasing innovative technologies in a high-speed environment."
Worlds' developers and graphic artists have just completed the final phase of a three dimensional
music-oriented virtual world for Road Runner. Worlds technology and content, created exclusively for
Road Runner's Entertainment Channel, is scheduled to launch in late-May. The three dimensional
space will contain eight different music genres - alternative, country, hip hop, soul, metal, blues, classic
rock and jazz. Road Runner subscribers will also be able to utilize streaming video and streaming audio
to listen to their favorite music videos within each music genre room, access the latest in music news
and be able to see live cybercasts in the first true three dimensional cybercast theater built for the
internet.
Thom Kidrin, President and CEO of Worlds, noted that "Worlds advanced 3D technology and rich
graphic content that will be delivered to Road Runner subscribers today is where the future of the
internet rests. The motion and animation that Road Runner subscribers will see and be truly immersed
in when they install the many Worlds music genre sites are something rarely seen on the internet today,
and Road Runner's broadband service makes all of this accessible to its subscribers today. The
relationship between Road Runner and Worlds clearly reinforces Worlds' cutting edge position in three
dimensional internet technology and content and takes us a step closer to establishing Worlds as the 3D
internet channel."
Road Runner subscribers who access the various Worlds three dimensional genre music spaces have
the ability to select an avatar (one's alter ego character) as an online identity. As an avatar, the Road
Runner subscriber can move into and out of different music environments. Entry will also be afforded
to Worlds Avatar Gallery and Worlds Gallery of Metamorphics. The Avatar Gallery contains over 100
different avatars, including more than 70 that are polygonal and are very easily user controlled for
performing more than 17 different actions and behaviors, including walking, waving, nodding yes and
no, flipping, twirling, expressing happiness and anger, doing funky and rockin' roll dances and even
flying. About Worlds Inc. Three Dimensional Internet Technology and Content
Worlds' Internet software and content delivered and installed via broadband interactive cable networks
or embedded on traditional audio CDs, as an enhanced, value added feature, permits animation and
motion on the Internet. Worlds' proprietary software and content permit online users to experience
moving into and out of various spaces via the selection of an avatar (one's alter ego character) for
self-representation on the Internet. Worlds Avatar Gallery has over 100 different characters (avatars)
from which an online user may select his or her online character, be it a real person, an animal, a
cartoon character, or even a bird. These online users can also meet other avatars with whom they can
communicate in various ways, including, but not limited to traditional text chat or real voice-to-voice
chat; these users can even wave to and dance with one another and exhibit numerous other behavior
patterns, all in a highly interactive, real time, online environment.
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