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News & Events > Press Releases 2001


December 13, 2001 - Paris, France - For Immediate Release -

Virtools™ and NewTek are pleased to announce the release of the Virtools™ Exporter for LightWave 3D®.

New plugin provides the smoothest transition from LightWave 3D® 6.5 and 7 to Virtools™ Dev 2.0 interactive 3D development software.



Dec. 10, 2001 - San Jose, CA - For Immediate Release -

Adobe Systems, Inc. Announces Agreement with Virtools™ for Adobe Atmosphere Player’s First Plugin.

Adobe Systems, Inc. and Virtools today announced an agreement to integrate the Virtools Web Player as the first plugin component for the Adobe Atmosphere platform.

Dec. 3, 2001 - Dusseldorf, Germany - For Immediate Release

VIRTOOLS™ wins the IST Grand Prize worth €200 000.

The European IST Prize (EISTP) is an award for groundbreaking products that represent the best of European innovation in information technology. It provides public recognition and a highly visible profile to entrepreneurial teams that excel in generating and converting novel ideas and R&D into marketable products. The Prize is organised by Euro-CASE with the support of the European Commission's Information Society Technologies (IST) research programme.


November 15, 2001 - Paris, France - For Immediate Release -

VIRTOOLS™ Releases the Virtools Behavioral Server 1.0.


VIRTOOLS™, market leader in the world of interactive 3D development solutions, announced today the release of the Virtools™ Behavioral Server 1.0., radically expanding existing capabilities to provide behavior-enriched interactive user experiences on the web.



November 12, 2001 - Paris, France - For Immediate Release -

Microsoft™ Grants Xbox Tools and Middleware License to VIRTOOLS™ for Xbox Prototyping Tool


The Xbox video game system from Microsoft (http://www.xbox.com) is paving the way for the most powerful, creative games ever experienced. To fulfill Xbox game artists' technical and creative development needs, Microsoft has granted an Xbox Tools and Middleware license to Virtools for the production of their innovative technology -- a smooth and successful game prototyping kit for the Xbox development community.



October 15, 2001 - Paris, France - For Immediate Release -

VIRTOOLS™ and Alias|Wavefront announce the release of the Virtools™ Exporter for Maya®


New plugin provides the smoothest transition from Maya® 3 and 4 to Virtools™ Dev 2.0 interactive 3D development software.



October 3, 2001 - Paris, France - For Immediate Release -

Carrefour© launches Oreomania, a game contest using Virtools™ Interactive 3D Development Solutions


Virtools™, market leader in the world of interactive 3D development solutions, announced that Sia Sistemas used Virtools technology for its Carrefour® and Nabisco® promotional campaign in Argentina.




September 21, 2001 - Dusseldorf, Germany - For Immediate Release -

VIRTOOLS™ Selected a Winner of the Prestigious 7th Annual IST Prize


Virtools™, market leader in the world of interactive 3D development solutions, was selected one of 20 winners in this year's IST Prize by the Euro-CASE and the Information Society Technologies Program of the European Commission. Chosen out of 294 entries from 26 different countries, Virtools™ and it's groundbreaking technology, Virtools™ Dev 2.0, win €5,000 in initial prize money and will be presented at the European Information Society Technologies Conference (IST 2001). Virtools is also nominated for the IST Grand Prize to be announced December 3rd.




September 20, 2001 - Paris, France- For Immediate Release -

VIRTOOLS™ Supports the Digital Arts with its Partnership with ART 3000 Workshop


VIRTOOLS announces its partnership with the ART 3000 Workshop as a valuable means of supporting artists working in the digital arts. As publishers of interactive 3D software solutions, VIRTOOLS hopes to promote new media creation by putting its authoring tool VIRTOOLS Dev 2.0 into the hands of artists in residence at the ART 3000 Workshop.




August 14, 2001 - Los Angeles, California - For Immediate Release -

Virtools™ launches Virtools™ Physics Pack for Dev 2.0, with integrated rigid body physics powered by Havok


Building on Virtools Dev 2.0 with Havok's real-time physics engine, the new Virtools Physics Pack brings the latest developments in games physics to the web, and makes them accessible to designers with no C++ knowledge.




August 14, 2001 - Los Angeles, California - For Immediate Release -

EDF chooses Virtools™ for e-learning applications with game-like interactivity


Virtools' superior interactive 3D technology has been chosen by EDF R&D to create e-learning applications. The training programs simulate operating procedures in nuclear power plants, and in particular the handling of polar cranes for reactor buildings.




July 15, 2001 - Paris, France - For Immediate Release -

Virtools™, market leader in the world of interactive 3D development solutions announces the release of Virtools™ Dev 2.0


The latest release of Virtools™ Dev allows you to produce exceptional game-quality applications for e-Marketing and e-Learning, as well as games, with increased productivity and maximum return on investement.




June 21, 2001 - Paris, France - For Immediate Release -

Hervé Yahi is named CEO of Virtools™


Paris, 21 June 2001 - Hervé Yahi has been selected as the CEO of Virtools, marking a new stage in the company's development. Virtools provides solutions for the development and deployment of highly interactive applications.




March 20, 2001 - Game Developers Conference - San Jose, California, USA

Paraworld presents Beyond3000™ at the Game Developers Conference in San Jose, a game Made with Virtools, The Behavior Company.

Beyond3000 is a massive multiplayer online game; a genre-mix of real-time strategy, action, and adventure game, where fast response and quick reaction times are just as important as tactical skills. Says Kay Kraemer, CEO of Paraworld "We wanted cutting-edge interactive 3D technology for Beyond3000, and we wanted it fast. Paraworld looked to Virtools for software solutions that have the flexibility to integrate with our client side technologies. With the smooth production process inherent in Virtools drag-and-drop behavioral scripting language and intuitive graphic user interface, the process from concept to delivery for Beyond3000 has been dramatically reduced."


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