Bill Poirier 

Cyberscope - Press Release On

14 Mar 1994 15:00:29 GMT The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA 

Newsgroups: 
   sci.virtual-worlds 

                        FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
                Cyberscope Becomes Desktop VR Industry Standard

     The Cyberscope, the revolutionary new affordable stereoscopic viewing
system for home computers,  has already become the desktop virtual
reality industry's standard 3D output peripheral.  Since its release
last year, the $199 Cyberscope has been warmly embraced by software
developers of all stripes, who are invariably amazed by the Cyberscope's
full color high resolution 3D images.  They are also astonished by
how trivial it can be to make their existing software Cyberscope-compatible.
Although current applications run the gamut from animation to X-ray
analysis, the virtual reality industry has been the most responsive
thus far.

     Recently, the VIRTUS Corporation announced plans to introduce
Cyberscope support into the next version of their VIRTUS VR package.
Although all other major desktop VR vendors have already made the
same decision-including VREAM, Sense8, Dimension International, and
Virtual Reality Labs-the announcement is significant as the Edinburgh,
North Carolina-based VIRTUS Corp. is the largest supplier of VR walkthrough
software. Their decision has firmly established the Cyberscope's place as
the industry standard.

     Other applications that have recently been converted to run
with the Cyberscope include:

-REND386, the well-known 3D virtual world shareware that inspired
The Waite Group's recently published "Virtual Reality Creations" book.

-Vistapro 3.1, the long-awaited CD-ROM version of the renowned landscape
flythrough software from Virtual Reality Laboratories, Inc. of San Luis
Obispo, CA.

-MicroStation from Intergraph, the largest CAD/CAM company in the US (via
the "CyberVision" add-on software from Huntsville AL-based ModelVision,
Inc.)

-3D Workshop, the rendering and animation brainchild of LucasFilm's Paul
LaFevre.

-The Mac version of CyberSmash, Simsalabim Systems' popular 3D breakout
game.

-The StereoScopic Showcase, a Cyberscope "playhouse" that includes
an arcade game, 3D photos and 3D animation, from MicroMind, Inc. of
New York, New York.

     You can download a free demo of the Cyberscope and some supporting
software (requires IBM PC-compatible 386 or better with mouse and SVGA card.
SVGA card needs at least 512K of memory on the board) from the internet by
downloading cyberfun.exe (binary) and readme.1st (ascii) by anonymous ftp to
cogsci.uwo.ca from the directory /pub/vr/cyberscope_demo according to the
following instructions:

1. From your internet account, type:
        ftp cogsci.uwo.ca

2. You will be prompted for your name. Type:
        anonymous

3. You will be prompted for a password. Type in your full internet address.
   Example:
        scope@well.sf.ca.usa
4. Type:
        cd pub
   to change to the public directory.

5. Type:
        cd vr
   to change to the virual reality directory.

6. Type:
        cd cyberscope_demo

7. Type:
        binary
   to set-up for binary transmission for step 8.

8. Type:
        get cyberfun.exe
   to transfer the 1.01 MByte file to your account. This should take about
   1 to 2 minutes, so please be patient.

9. Type:
        ascii
   to set-up for ascii transmission for step 10.

10. Type:
        get readme.1st
    to transfer a 1.2KByte file to your account.  This should take 1 to 2
    seconds.

11.  Type:
        quit
     to close the ftp connection.

12. Transfer the files in your account to a directory on an IBM PC that
    uses DOS. You can do this by either using a file server, such as File
    Express, which will take a couple of minutes, or downloading by modem
    to your PC, which will take several hours.

13. From this directory, type:
        cyberfun
    which will extract all the neccessary files for the demo.

14. Type:
        demo
    and enjoy the show!

For more information,
        please call 510-528-2021.
        Sales: 1-800-3D-TODAY.
        FAX: 510-528-9499.
        Or write to: Simsalabim Systems, PO Box 4446, Berkeley, CA 94704.
        email: scope@well.sf.ca.us