Product Overview:

3-D Website Builder is the easiest WYSIWYG way to create the coolest "Virtual World" site on the Web without programming. Unlike flat HTML pages, VRML Worlds created with 3-D Website Builder allow visitors to walk through your site and virtually see where they're going and where they've been. This life-like spatial quality makes it easier and more exciting for visitors to navigate without getting lost among hundreds of flat pages. In addition, a 3-D World is several times more efficient than a flat Web page since each 3-D room has at least six 2-D surfaces to place content.

With 3-D Website Builder you can design your own virtual store, create a virtual family photo hall of fame, give the press access to your virtual press room, allow your distant family to take a virtual walk-through of your new house, encourage visitors to tour your virtual trade show, invite exploration of your virtual 3-D campus and more.

3-D Website Builder exports to VRML and includes a major feature subset of the award winning Virtus WalkThrough Pro ($495 SRP) with an easier drag-and-drop interface and six of the Virtus Galleries worth over $240--all for an anticipated street price of only $99.

Platforms:

Windows '95, Windows 3.1, Macintosh and Power Macintosh all on one CD.

Features:

• Ease of use -- Intuitive drag-and-drop graphical user interface makes creating and editing 3-D Web sites fast, easy and fun.

• Supports VRML standard -- Supports shading, in-line objects, textures, levels of detail, WWW anchor and more.

• Multi-Platform CD ROM -- The single CD contains separate optimized versions for Windows '95, Windows 3.1, Macintosh and Power Macintosh. The program file frormats are also compatible across Mac and PC platforms.

• FREE Virtus Voyager™ -- The world's first cross-platform VRML browser, Virtus Voyager, is included FREE with each package (a $29.95 value). Works as a helper application with Netscape Navigator™.

• FREE Virtus Galleries -- Includes six professional 3-D clipart galleries (valued at $39.95 each -- worth almost $240) with over 500 pre-built objects. Also includes sample 3-D Web templates with HTML links, images and more!

• Special Bonus -- Includes exclusive virtual reality worlds such as Virtual Las Vegas, Washington D.C., Undersea World, and more!

Competitive Position:

With the advent of the Internet and VRML, Virtus released the world's first shipping VRML modeling software for desktop computers, Virtus WalkThrough Pro, version 2.5.1 ($495 SRP). Now, with an even easier drag-and-drop interface and a $99 anticipated street price, 3-D Website Builder is the first cross-platform product specifically designed to build entire 3-D VRML Worlds and environments on the Internet.

Unlike other soon-to-be-released VRML programs that can only create boxy, simplistic walls or merely make 3-D objects that you can manipulate, 3-D Website Builder allows you to create entire on-line "worlds" using patented technology that only Virtus can provide. When it's time to add true real-life walk-through dimension to your site, 3-D Website Builder is the only real solution--everything else is virtually flat.

Press Quotes for Virtus Technology:

"This [Virtus WalkThrough Pro 2.0] is an incredibly powerful program for the price, turning 3-D still lifes into adventures in inner and outer space." -- Windows Magazine, May 1995

"WalkThrough Pro 2.0 is an exceptional program that lets you quickly and intuitively interact with your designs . . . No other 3-D design program does that as well as WalkThrough Pro 2.0." -- MacWorld magazine, April 1995

"Virtus WalkThrough [Pro 2.5] is a natural for VRML development, with its innovative approach to implementing navigable 3-D scenes and environments. WalkThrough's strength is its straightforward set of tools, which you use to create complex 3-D Worlds for the Internet using a relatively humble PC rather than a high-powered workstations." -- Windows Magazine, January 1996

Virtus Awards:

Although Virtus has spent much of its energy creating software for other publishers, it has still won numerous awards for its own commercial products including:

1990 - Breakthrough Technology of the Year -- MacUser

1993 - Best Computer Aided Visualization -- MacUser

1993 - Best Painting and Draw Program -- PC Computing, MVP

1994 - Windows Top 100 Best Products of the Year (Graphics Category) -- Windows Magazine

1994 - Grand Prix Editors Choice Award for Best Software of the Year -- Mac Life

1995 - Windows Top 100 Best Products of the Year (Graphics Category) -- Windows Magazine

System Specifications:

Windows '95 and Windows 3.1
80486-based PC (Pentium or later recommended)
8 MB RAM (16 MB+ recommended)
10 MB disk space
CD ROM

Macintosh, Power Macintosh
Apple Macintosh Powerbook, Centris, Quadra or Power Macintosh
8 MB RAM (16 MB+ recommended)
System 6.0.5 or later
10 MB disk space
CD ROM

Competitive Matrix:

The following comparisons were made between Virtus 3-D Website Builder, Paragraph Home Space Builder, and Caligari Fountain at the time 3-D Website Builder went to press. Caligari was still in beta with Fountain (now called Pioneer).

Contact Information:

Virtus Customer Service
(800) 847-8871

Virtus Corporation
114 MacKenan Drive, Suite 100
Cary, NC 27511
(800) 847-8871
http://www.virtus.com