ParaGraph International, Inc. and Cybertown Announce 3D Virtual Reality Web
Partnership

CAMPBELL, CA - MAY 14, 1996 -- ParaGraph International, Inc. and Cybertown
today announced that ParaGraph's acclaimed Virtual Home Space Builder
(VHSB) the first easy-to-use consumer authoring /publishing tool for
creating 3D multimedia Web spaces, will be featured for Cybertown
residents to create 3D Virtual Reality Home Spaces in the Cybertown
community. A "mini" version of VHSB will be available for Cybertown
residents to create their own personal 3D VR residences in the Internet's
largest 21st Century interactive 3D VR community. Additionally, ParaGraph
will establish its corporate presence in Cybertown with the unveiling of
its virtual downtown office complex. For more information, link to:
http://www.cybertown.com/colonies/vhsb.html

VHSB is acknowledged by industry experts to be the simplest and most
powerful tool to build and publish content-rich multimedia 3D Spaces for
Web sites. VHSB's unsurpassed ability to render rich textures enables
users to quickly create visually stunning scenes, and its exceptional
rendering speed gives users the ability to move through spaces and see the
results of their work while building. The software's integrated multimedia
capability includes sound, text, and animations, which combine to create
exciting content-rich 3D Spaces. VHSB saves files that are fully VRML 1.0
compliant, allowing anyone with Netscape Navigator Atlas browser or any
VRML Browser, downloadable freely from many web sites, to access and
navigate through the 3D Home Spaces.

"We are very pleased to be working with Paragraph International in
providing our thousands of Cybertown Colony residents with the ability to
both create and customize 3D Virtual Reality apartments in Cybertown. This
is something that our residents have been requesting some time. An
important factor was to be able to provide this capability but at the same
time make it very easy for our residents to implement. With Paragraph's
custom version of their very popular Virtual Home Space Builder, we are
able to effectively do this." said Tony Rockliff, Cybertown's President.

"Cybertown is definitely a cornerstone in the Internet's progression from
2D Web pages into a 3D VR universe, " said Leonid Kitainik, Vice President
and General Manager of ParaGraph's Consumer Division. "They have organized
an enormous number of Internet users into a large sustainable community.
The end goal has always been to create a 3D VR world, and now that every
resident can realistically build their own personal part of the world
using VHSB, we will see this goal being quickly achieved"

"We chose Paragraph's software for our residents because of the tremendous
ease of use and the very short learning curve. " said Cybertown Creative
Director Pascal Baudar.

"At Cybertown we are creating multi-user 3D Virtual Reality connected
worlds that residents and visitors can enter, explore and communicate with
others using avatars (3D digital representations of themselves). We are
designing these worlds for full interactivity so that there will be
worthwhile things for people to do in them and working with Paragraph is
speeding up our development of these worlds considerably." added Tony
Rockliff

PARAGRAPH INTERNATIONAL, INC.

Founded in 1989, ParaGraph International, Inc. has long been a leading
provider of complex software solutions for the high tech industry. The
company's corporate mission is to be the leading provider of Internet VR
authoring/publishing tools by combining technologies in 3D rendering,
behavior languages, compression and image recognition. These tools enable
end-users to build and publish exciting Internet spaces - rooms,
buildings, cities, landscapes, worlds and universes - for people to visit
communicate and work with each other easily and quickly around the world.
ParaGraph International holds a leadership position in a number of
critical Internet technologies that demand preeminence in algorithmic
design, including 3D and VR applications, 2D pen software and compression
technologies.

For more information on ParaGraph International and its products, contact
the company at 1688 Dell Avenue, Campbell, CA 95008, (408) 364-7700;
Fax(408) 374-5466. Web sites: http://www.paragraph.com and
http://vrml.paragraph.com.

CYBERTOWN

Founded in March of 1995 when its creators fell in love with the World Wide
Web, Cybertown is set in the 21st Century and is designed just like a real
town. Cybertown includes an entertainment complex with music clubs, a game
arcade, concert halls, movie houses, a business center, a reference
library, meeting places, amusement parks, interactive science museums, and
shopping malls. Cybertown, the most awarded site on the Web, is currently
receiving 3 million accesses a month and is located in Cyberspace at
http://www.cybertown.com. Cybertown can be reached in the terrestrial
world at 800-777-7631 or by E-mail at cybermail@cybertown.com
 
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