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Nearlife Invited to Participate in ACM1 Conference - Conference To Explore How Advances in Technology Are Shaping Our Future
Cambridge, MA – March 7, 2001 – Nearlife, Inc. is pleased to announce that it is one of a select number of entertainment/new media companies invited to participate as an exhibitor at the ACM1 conference in San Jose, CA, March 10-14. Sponsored by the Association For Computing Machinery, ACM1: Beyond Cyberspace will showcase extraordinary technologies from dozens of exhibitors representing leading-edge companies, institutions, and R&D laboratories. Other exhibitors include Microsoft, Boeing, Daimler-Chrysler, Disney, IBM, MIT Media Lab, and Sony PlayStation.
Nearlife has put together a special exhibit for ACM1 that will include a customized version of its popular Virtual FishTankTM exhibit. Visitors will be able to build their own fish and release them into a four-foot wide virtual fish tank. In addition, Nearlife will show two interactive elements from its brand new exhibit, NetWorld, a 5,000 square foot exhibit about how the Internet works which is opening at the Museum of Science & Technology in Chicago on March 2nd. Visitors to the Nearlife booth will be able to use a touch screen interface to change the flow of a virtual stream of 1's and 0's. The Packet Switching demo from NetWorld will let visitors use a touch screen interface to close network nodes and watch how data is automatically rerouted in a re-creation of how data flows over the Internet.
The Nearlife booth will include an Internet connection to demonstrate the new Virtual FishTank website. Online visitors to www.virtualfishtank.com are able to build their own fish online and release them into the actual museum exhibits at the Museum of Science in Boston and the St. Louis Science Center. There will also be an online sneak preview of a new project Nearlife is developing for the Chicago Children's Museum, called SuperMe.
ABOUT NEARLIFE, INC.
Nearlife is an entertainment company, seamlessly merging the latest technologies with traditional storytelling elements to create "Living Media" experiences. Living Media characters and environments travel, migrate, adapt, grow, change, and react based on user input. Nearlife experiences blend real and virtual world across a variety of media platforms including museum exhibits, pc's, interactive television, the Internet, wireless devices and electronic toys. Nearlife designs, manages, and implements all aspects of its highly successful exhibits, including character design, theming, content, graphics, interaction, user interface, software programming and technical supervision. Widely recognized for its award-winning interactive projects at noted museums, science centers, and other locations around the world, Nearlife is using Web-based elements to expand location-based exhibits into homes, schools, and beyond.
Additional information about Nearlife, Inc. is available at www.nearlife.com. A white paper about Networld will be available on the Nearlife website. Living Media and the Nearlife logo are registered trademarks of Nearlife, Inc.
For Information Contact:
Jim Brady
Nearlife Inc.
info@nearlife.com
(617) 491-3184 x124
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