To: Scot who wrote (1841 ) 3/25/1998 1:20:00 PM From: Robert Floyd Respond to of 2319
HomeStyles Introduces HomeStyles Virtual Home Tour your dream home -- inside and out -- in virtual reality ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 25, 1998-- HomeStyles(R) Interactive introduces HomeStyles Virtual Home, a CD-ROM set that allows users to walk through 30 best-selling home plans. With the click of a mouse, users can see a home's exterior from every angle, obtain a 360-degree internal view of rooms and zoom in to get a closer look at particular objects. Each house on the tour has luxurious furnishings inside and spectacular landscaping outside. Four of the homes feature actual photographic walk throughs, while 26 of the homes are photo realistic, computer models. HomeStyles Virtual Home users can also tap into its database of 3,500 home plans -- 500 of which have never before been published -- by America's top architects and designers. The database is searchable by such criteria as budget and lifestyle needs, square footage, style, and desired number of bedrooms and baths. Users can tag and print comprehensive summaries of their favorite plans and estimate building costs based on where they live by using the HomeStyles budget calculator. HomeStyles Virtual Home also features Internet access from AT&T WorldNet Service. HomeStyles Virtual Home, listed at $39.95, is exclusively distributed and available in software stores nationwide through GT Interactive Software Corp. (Nasdaq: GTIS - news), a leading interactive entertainment and edutainment publisher. For more information on New York-based GT Interactive, visit gtinteractive.com . HomeStyles Interactive is the multimedia publishing arm of HomeStyles, the Home Plans People. HomeStyles represents designers and architects by marketing and publishing top-selling home designs in magazines, books, videos, CD-ROM's and on the World Wide Web. HomeStyles is the largest provider of home designs in North America. Founded in 1946, the company is headquartered in St. Paul, Minn.