News & Events > Press Releases 2000
July 25, 2000 - New Orleans, Louisiana
Siggraph 2000 - Stand #2249
Virtools and RTIME announce development and marketing partnership.
 Virtools and RTIME, Inc. today announced that they have begun integrating the RTIME Interactive Networking Engine™ with Virtools's family of products.
Virtools makes a powerful suite of products for creating interactive real-time 3D content, and RTIME is the leading provider of networking solutions for real-time, multiuser games and applications for the Internet and broadband networks.
Virtools produces a suite of interactive 3D development tools and is swiftly earning a strong reputation for itself. Virtools Creation allows users to create interactive applications through a building-block, object-oriented paradigm. The more elaborate Virtools Dev, with its open source model, enables high level programmers to create new building blocks that fit into the Virtools graphical interface. The two products are particularly suited to streamlined production, while allowing the flexibility necessary for creativity and innovation, particularly in the field of Web 3D.
"We believe that the ability for users to interact with each other is a critical building block to the internet experience, and the future of Web 3D. The collaboration with RTIME will allow us to offer Virtools's easy, quick access to this important component of rich interactivity" Bertrand Duplat, Virtools's CEO.
The RTIME Interactive Networking Engine™ is a runtime and delivery platform that enables real-time, multi-user interaction over the Internet and broadband networks. The product is packaged into four components :
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RTIME Communications Engine, a high performance, highly scalable client/server networking solution that provides real-time communications between users located anywhere in the world, |
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RTIME Broadband Engine, which enables multi-user applications to transparently scale from 28K modems through to high speed, broadband access, with immediate realization of the benefits of connectivity upgrades by each end-user, |
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RTIME Multimedia Engine, for bi-directional streaming of voice, music, video, graphics and advertisements to enable a richer interactive experience, and |
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RTIME Cluster Engine, for massively multi-user environments supporting several thousands of participants interacting in the same shared environment. |
For more information, please contact:
Virtools
+33 (0) 1 42 71 86 90
info@virtools.com
Julia Price / Amanda McNulty
Price Public Relations
+1 650 829 5800
jprice@pricepr.com
amcnulty@pricepr.com
Chip Overstreet
President & CEO
RTIME, Inc.
+1 206 281 7990 x102
chip@rtimeinc.com
www.rtimeinc.com
About RTIME, Inc.
RTIME, Inc. is the leading provider of commercial networking software that enables realtime, multiuser applications over the Internet and broadband networks. RTIME's platform came out of its founders' experience with SIMNET, a $250m U.S. government project designed to train soldiers in cyberspace. Founded in 1993, RTIME is a venture-capital-backed, privately held company headquartered in Seattle. The company's intellectual property is protected by U.S. Patent #5,841,980 and European Patent Application #0901657. Additional information can be found on the company's web site at www.rtimeinc.com.
About Virtools
Headquarted in Paris, Virtools SA produces a suite of interactive 3D development tools for creating game, entertainment and web 3D content - and is swiftly earning a strong reputation for itself. Virtools Creation permits non-programmers to create rich interactivity through graphs and behavior building blocks, and Virtools Dev gives cutting edge game developers access to the underlying code for the power, flexibility and control they need to bring creative ideas to realization. Both products streamline the production process, are well adapted to episodic content, and are used by industry leaders including Havas Interactive, Microids and TerraTools.
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