June 18, 1999

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

GHOST 3D CONTRIBUTES CREATIVE MEDIA CONTENT TO FIRST DEDICATED SONY PLAYSTATION STORE IN NEW SAN FRANCISCO SONY METREON ENTRTAINMENT CENTER.

June 18, 1999 (Oakland, CA) -- GHOST 3D, LLC contributes content to the first dedicated PlayStation(r) Store, the SONY Metreon Playstation Store at the new SONY METREON building in San Francisco, CA.

As announced in March 1999, Sony Development has opened the Metreon building in San Francisco, CA, the new Sony Entertainment Center, on June 16, 1999. The complex offers the Bay Area fifteen-screen, state-of-the-art Sony Theatres, Metreon movie complex; San Francisco's first SONY•IMAX® Theatre, several interactive adventures, restaurants and shopping stores - including the first dedicated PlayStation Store.

GHOST 3D, LLC is proud to announce it’s contribution of 3D content to the media walls, video, and plasma screens in the Metreon’s PlayStation Store. GHOST 3D collaborated with San Francisco design and media company, Dasein, to digitize, model and texture 3D artwork to contribute to this enormous collection of animated imagery for the store. GHOST 3D utilized its own proprietary technology, to generate three-dimensional imagery inside Autodesk’s 3D Studio MAX for animation. GHOST 3D additionally announces that these same proprietary 3D tools will eventually be released to the public as commercial tools for use as plugins for 3D Studio MAX.

The PlayStation Store will provide loyal PlayStation game enthusiasts to shop for "everything that is PlayStation" in a unique mutli-media experience. For more information about PlayStation visit http://www.playstation.com. For more information about the SONY Metreon entertainment center in San Francisco visit http://www.metreon.com.


ABOUT GHOST 3D, LLC

GHOST 3D, LLC is a California based 3D technology developer and production studio. The company is continually innovating 3D concepts and applications, culminating into unique products and productions. Founding members have continued development activities with leading technologies such as those from Autodesk and Discreet, having had prior roles on Autodesk development teams for products such as 3D Studio Max, AutoCAD, Character Studio. Part of GHOST 3D's team also contributed as design partner for Character Studio (the character animation technology behind the "Dancing Baby" phenomenon). Similarly, GHOST 3D collaborates with a variety of commercial partners to help bring their 3D solutions to life.
GHOST 3D develops both custom and commercial software solutions and techniques for industrial 3D productivity applications. Among others, GHOST 3D's products include the world's first fully interactive and integrated 3D digitizing, modeling and animation technology for leading 3D applications. Scribe-iT, the latest brand of this fully interactive/integrated 3D capturing, modeling and animation technology, will be shown to 50,000+ attendees at the world renowned 1999 SIGGRAPH convention in Los Angeles.
Additionally, while ever-testing and pushing the envelope of tools and production techniques, GHOST 3D produces impressive 3D content for various design, game, film, and television productions. From the development and marketing of industrial tools and solutions to the generation of creative productions and design, GHOST 3D is immersed in the 3-dimensional digital world.


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Trademarks: Sony Development is a division of Sony Corporation. Metreon is a service mark of Sony Development. PlayStation is a trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. SONY is a registered trademark of Sony Corporation. IMAX are registered trademarks of IMAX Corporation. GHOST 3D, Surf-iT, and Scribe-iT are trademarks of GHOST 3D, LLC. 3D Studio MAX is a registered trademark of Autodesk, Inc. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks are used solely for the purpose of identification and belong to their respective holders.