(COMTEX) B: Road Runner to Offer Worlds' 3D Internet Technology and C
B: Road Runner to Offer Worlds' 3D Internet Technology and Content
WLDI is just starting to respond to this news today.
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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