SUPERSCAPE JOINS NETSCAPE AND SILICON GRAPHICS TO SUPPORT EMERGING VRML
STANDARD

PIONEERING VIRTUAL REALITY COMPANY TO BRING 3-D TO THE WORLD WIDE WEB

12 February 1996 -- Superscape Inc., the leading provider of software tools
for creating interactive three-dimensional virtual worlds on personal
computers, in conjunction with Silicon Graphics, Netscape Communications
Corporation and 56 leading World Wide Web companies, today announced its
support for the next generation implementation of virtual reality markup
language, or VRML 2.0, the emerging open standard for creating and viewing
three-dimensional virtual reality worlds on the World Wide Web.

Virtual reality is a medium where a virtual world (a computer-generated,
real-time, three-dimensional environment) can be explored and examined
continuously and interactively from any perspective.

With the new VRML 2.0 standard, Web designers and surfers alike will be
able to design and explore powerful, interactive 3-D virtual reality
worlds in real-time on the Internet using standard PCs. The new
specification promises to bring virtual reality on the Web to a new level
by incorporating 3-D interactive animation, multimedia and characters and
objects with life-like responses and behaviors not previously available to
Internet users.

"Its exciting to see that Superscape -- a pioneering virtual reality
company with third generation technology -- is supporting the proposed
VRML 2.0 standard," -- said Mark Pesce, one of the original creators of
VRML.

"The company's endorsement underscores the virtual reality community's
commitment to moving from proprietary to open systems that will increase
interactivity, availability and ease of use for explorers of 3-D worlds on
the Internet."

VRML 2.0 will have a broad use in virtual reality applications ranging from
real-time 3-D data analysis and virtual reality games to virtual reality
shopping, showrooms and collaborative design projects across the
Internet.

"At Superscape we believe that virtual reality software will unlock the
potential of the Internet," -- said Robert Lowe, President and CEO of
Superscape Inc.

"As 3-D tools are becoming more powerful and easy to use, users are
beginning to demand the rich interface and experience that 3-D virtual
reality brings to computing. Soon the mass of static 2- DWeb pages will be
replaced by interactive 3-D home pages created by home designers. We
support the development of the VRML 2.0 standard as a means of empowering
the coming generation of Web users to begin building those pages now."

BRINGING POWERFUL VIRTUAL REALITY AUTHORING TOOLS TO THE INTERNET

The new VRML 2.0 specification will allows users on standard PCs to create
and explore 3-D worlds on the Internet with a level of interaction and
flexibility that more closely models the powerful capability to create
rich interactive worlds using Superscape's VRT 4.0, the company's
award-winning suite of virtual reality authoring tools.

This ability to export portions of Superscape's rich 3-D worlds to VRML 2.0
will allow for greatly enhanced levels of 3-D publishing than currently
available on the World Wide Web. For example, intelligent objects with
behaviors easily created in Superscape's VRT 4.0 -- scenes with sounds
that change with location, animals that move on their own and characters
with built in actions and personalities -- can be quickly exported to VRML
for publishing on the Web.

Superscape's virtual reality authoring tools both import and export VRML
files, as well as create ultra-rich world's using the company's own file
format based on SuperVRML technology, which has a 10 year heritage as the
standard software for PC-based virtual reality modeling and application
development.

WORLD'S FASTEST 3-D WEB NAVIGATION

Superscape last month demonstrated a new software product, VisNet, that
will be distributed free over the Internet at the end of February. VisNet
is the world's fastest 3-D interactive viewer on standard Intel-based
personal computers and is designed to work with Superscape's SuperVRML
file format. By extending and enhancing the powerful capabilities of
viewers which are based on VRML, Superscape was able to develop VisNet to
be on average five to 10 times faster than the first generation 3-D
viewers.

The VisNet viewer features a control panel for consistent navigation
through the universe of virtual worlds on the World Wide Web and for
controlling the behavior of intelligent objects such as calculators,
clocks and cars.

NEW VIRTUAL REALITY PRODUCTS FOR CONSUMERS

In addition to the VisNet 3-D interactive viewer and VRT 4.0, Superscape
plans to introduce several new authoring tools for small businesses, web
developers and consumers to easily and rapidly create virtual reality
objects and environments. To that end, the company is embarking upon an
aggressive marketing and promotion program in the coming months.

The Superscape product portfolio includes VRT 4.0 (which provides both VRML
and SuperVRML output), Networks, Superscape Developers Kit and Visualiser.
All products run on a 486, Pentium or Pentium Pro computer with 8 MB of
RAM. An SVGA monitor, keyboard and a mouse complete the virtual reality
system. While not required, Superscape tools can work with a wide variety
of head-mounted displays (HMD's) for immersive applications.

Superscape software is presently distributed in over 26 countries and used
for applications that include marketing and sales, product design,
training, medicine, video game development and entertainment. The
Superscape customer list includes multi-national companies such as IBM,
Nortel (Northern Telecommunications), Motorola, Cisco, Hewlett- Packard,
Nabisco, American Express, Merrill Lynch, Land Rover and Rolls Royce.

Superscape's U.S. headquarters are located in Palo Alto, CA. The company
was founded in 1983 by Ian Andrew and employs 100 people. Superscape is a
public company and is traded on the London Stock Exchange. For more
information or to download at no cost, Visualiser, the company's desktop
virtual reality viewer, as well as a number of virtual worlds, contact the
Superscape World Wide Web home page at: http://www.superscape.com.
 
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