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Topic 415 VRX - Virtual Realm Xchange
peg:visionary cyberculture zone 12:57 AM Aug 8, 1994
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.. Virtual Realm Xchange \\ M i c h a e l N e y
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.. PO Box 566 Milsons Pt
.. CD-ROM Authoring NSW 2061 Australia
.. Computer Graphics Tel. +61-2-692-8168
.. Network Consultancy Mobile. 0414-414-700
.. Sound Design
.. Photography Email. vrx@geko.com.au
............................visionary@peg.apc.org
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Subject: VRX Info v1. August 94 (200 lines)
VRX - Virtual Realm Xchange - is a multi-faceted production company
focusing on CD-ROM authoring, multimedia presentations and video
production for the development of new arts media, essentially for
educational and entertainment uses.
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* CD-ROM Authoring
VRX offers total concept development,
design and production services for use in
education, the arts, entertainment, advertising
and training applications.
Project 'content' typically involves a wide variety of media such as
video and stills photography, audio for voice, music and effects,
combined with textual information. The project 'design' provides
interactive links between all the different elements.
* Computer Graphics and Animation
Whether you would like VRX to design a brochure, book, poster
or any similar item, or create an integrated design for a group of items,
we can supply you with full production services ready for printing.
These services include image scanning, retouching, colour separations,
as well as special effects and animated display for CD-ROM or television.
VRX offers creative consultancy from the concept stage to final output.
* Photography - Film, Video and Stills
VRX has expertise in all areas of photographic production.
Whilst we specialise in photographic preparation for CD-ROM use,
VRX also provides photography for many other applications, such as
editorial illustration, product catalogues, sales brochures or stills
and video for television production. We also offer digital editing
for the stills or video footage used within your specific projects.
* Audio - Sound Design
VRX offers a sound to video mastering for your audio requirements.
Specialising in sound to picture, original world music can be created
for special projects. VRX also has an extensive Acoustic ~ Electric,
MIDI and DAT library encompassing natural sound and special effects.
Voice-overs link the many visual elements in any projects content
and are an integral part of the services VRX provides.
* Network Consultancy
An important part of VRX is the 'Virtual Realm Xchange' itself.
This involves data networking on numerous systems, local and globally.
Key personnel in VRX have extensive experience on Internet, FirstClass
and APC Networks (Pegasus) and have established forums there.
Networks enhance communications in many ways and VRX can show you
how to make best use of all the various tools available.
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The Rationale Behind VRX
The printed page has been a popular standard for the dissemination
of information for centuries. The emergence of television, and
more recently, computers had led us into the thick of the
"information age", and we now expect so much more from
the various ways that information is presented to us.
As the next millennium approaches the very nature of information transfer
is being transformed to include audio, visual, textual and
conceptual complexities.
Information is a dynamic medium in itself, and new technology
now offers many new ways to interact with it and to be selective
in what we receive, view or transmit to others.
To this end interactive multimedia offers the best solution...
by extending a single message with multiple layers of background material
presented in the best medium most suited to the theme.
For example, interviews need to show the person as if you are
meeting them face to face; thus video is required.
Brief texts require links to longer explanations with pertinent references;
therefore "hypertext" can present messages via audio, video or other texts.
Audio presentations, like music or voice-overs, can also be enriched
by the expressive medium of images, and vice versa.
"To bring learning alive, there is nothing like full-motion video
and sound. People remember almost three times more with
multi-sensory stimulation over reading alone."
...quote Compton's New Media Encyclopedia.
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VRX CD-ROM Production Services
VRX provides creative authoring, data preparation, and premastering,
using Macintosh systems, and output for playback on either Macintosh
and/or PC Windows environments. We'll arrange for mastering and disk
duplication at competitive costs. We can define a projects scope to
match your budget.
VRX can also design and arrange all pre-press production for
CD-ROM covers, brochures, booklets and other promotional items.
We can consult with you on local and international marketing campaigns
for your project too.
So, if your project requires interactive presentation involving...
* extensive video production, including original music and voiceover, or
* a catalogue of products or services with simple graphics and text, or
* a short, action packed, animated presentation for prospective clients, or
* long texts translated into visuals linked to photos, audio and/or video, or
* an integrated marketing campaign complete with television commercials,
press advertising, promotional materials and CD-ROM presentation
...then please call Virtual Realm Xchange 02-692-8168
for creative, cost effective solutions.
PROJECT PLANNING
VRX will consult with you from the first steps of project planning,
to the integrated presentation style, right up to final CD-ROM disk
delivery. We liaise closely with you to define a detailed brief
before project commencement, and will prepare sample pictures and/or
animations for approval before the final interactive presentation is
programmed. There are many considerations to be explored and we will
clearly define the options available, and provide budgets and
production schedules accordingly.
For proof of concept, VRX can prototype a sample presentation and
create a "Write-Once CD-ROM" disk for test purposes. We use Macintosh
tools for initial programming and transfer to IBM-DOS format with
equal interactivity.
VRX works closely with an excellent team of hardware and software
consultants. Therefore we offer expert information, according to your
brief, on the innumerable details which may be encountered in the
creation of new multimedia projects for delivery on a wide range of
playback computers.
PRODUCTION SERVICES
Some of the services that VRX provides include...
* converting word-processor files into ASCII text
and prepare it for "interactivity".
* convert text into picture, add graphics...
either original art or scan existing pictures
* digitise video for conversion into playback format for computers.
* construct interactive presentations
using a variety of creative software tools.
* perform the logical formatting and premastering
of project presentations.
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The VRX team is excited about the immense creative possibilities
inherent within the medium of interactive presentation, and
we look forward to involving you in this new communications tool.
* Interactive and animated presentations to prospective clients
* Many layered sales catalogs or instruction manuals
* Inspirational displays for trade shows, museums, or any public space
* Databases of company information can now include video and music
* Relate an associated group of companies via dynamic visual links
> Call Michael Ney on +61-2-692-8168 or 0414-414-700
> to discuss the specific requirements of your projects.
> Write to: PO Box 566 Milsons Pt, NSW 2061 Australia.
> Email: vrx@geko.com.au or visionary@peg.apc.org
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