Anybody see the Blaxxun/USAI deal today? Kinds sheds new light on the potential synergy prefaced by the Lycos deal, though I still don't like that one!
new blaxxun/ticketmaster deal(@ventures holding):
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 1999--
Fans of Live Events Can See 360 degrees Views From The Best Available
Seats Before Completing Their Ticket Purchase
blaxxun interactive today announced that they are providing blaxxun's
Contact(tm) 4.0 as the virtual reality interface for Ticketmaster Online's new
customized online ticketing service, My Ticketmaster.
My Ticketmaster features 360 degrees photographic images and virtual reality
seating charts of selected major stadiums and theaters allowing customers to
see the venue and sight lines to the stage from their chosen seat before
purchasing the ticket. Sponsored by the Microsoft Network, Levis, and IBM,
the service was developed by Ticketmaster in conjunction with Intel, Corp.,
and launches today at my.ticketmaster.com.
blaxxun interactive's plug-in Contact 4.0 allows customers to view the rich 3D
venues featured in My Ticketmaster. The service enables fans of live events to
see 360 degrees views from the best available seats before completing their
ticket purchase and to take virtual 'tours' of the venue. More than 75 venues
including New York's Radio City Music Hall, the Great Western Forum in Los
Angeles, and Chicago's Comiskey Park have been designed. The site also
provides event information such as show times, directions to the venue,
parking, and more. Customers can create personalized profiles alerting them to
ticket on-sales of favorite events including concerts, sports, family
entertainment, performing arts, and more.
Franz Buchenberger, CEO of blaxxun interactive said, "We're convinced My
Ticketmaster is defining the next generation of e-commerce applications. It
makes full use of the internet as an interactive visual medium. We're pleased to
integrate the blaxxun Contact 3D viewer into a product that makes ticketing a
user friendly, informative experience."
"We're extremely excited about the launch of My Ticketmaster," said Terry
Barnes, President and CEO, Ticketmaster Group, Inc. "The Internet is a
wonderful vehicle for expanding our core ticketing business and provides
another easy, convenient way for consumers to acquire tickets to their favorite
events. It also opens up a boundless opportunity for our clients to communicate
to a universal audience. Entertainment fans can keep tabs on what's going on in
their own city or in any city in the U.S. and can be among the first to get tickets
in hand to top events."
The solution architecture of My Ticketmaster as well as the user interface and
virtual venue views development were designed and managed by Intel based
upon content from Ticketmaster. The service utilizes technology wholly created
by Ticketmaster research and development and Intel as well as technology
from 3Name3D, and Interactive Pictures Corporation, blaxxun interactive and
R/GA Interactive.
My Ticketmaster is the personalized complement to Ticketmaster Online
(www.ticketmaster.com), the Internet's leading event ticketing and information
source, with more than 30,000 event listings. Ticketmaster, a USA company
(NASDAQ: USAI), is the world's leading computerized ticketing service. It
serves more than 3,750 clients Worldwide and sells more than 70 million
tickets per year. The company provides ticketing for 85 professional sports
franchises and hundreds of leading arenas, stadiums, performing arts venues,
and theaters. Clients receive comprehensive ticket inventory control and
management, broad distribution, and dedicated marketing and support
services. Consumers receive convenient access to tickets for more than
150,000 events a year, including a broad range of concerts, sports, family
entertainment, performing arts, and movies.
blaxxun interactive, based in San Francisco and Munich, is the global leader in
products and solutions for multimedia communication on the Internet and
intranets. Its technology platform ties multimedia with rich communication
features allowing the building of visually striking communities and venues where
users interact and network with each other in 2D and 3D. Applications are
tailored to commerce, to collaboration with online education/training forums
and virtual offices, and to communities like the award winning Cybertown
(www.cybertown.com). More information about blaxxun interactive can be
found at www.blaxxun.com.
CONTACT:
blaxxun interactive, San Francisco
John Golden, 415/437-6163
or
blaxxun interactive, Munich
Christiane von Stein, 49 89 544 628-0 |
