January 3rd, 2000

[8:00 AM] New Products Helps Capture VR Models by Staff Kaidan and PictureWorks announce the PiXi Photographic VR Object Starter Kit for E-Commerce and the PiXi Manual Turntable. These tools help in the creation of QuickTime VR movies. According to Kaidan and PictureWorks: Kaidan Incorporated, announced today with PictureWorks Technology, Inc. two new products targeted at photographic VR object imaging for the Internet. The Kaidan PiXi Manual Turntable and the PiXi Photographic VR Object Starter Kit are the ideal ways for consumers to photographically capture collectibles, products, toys, sculptures and other objects in a 3-D form. With these new products consumers can quickly and easily create stunning VR objects for inclusion in documents, e-mail messages or web pages. The PiXi Manual Turntable is 15 inches in diameter and can support objects weighing up to 50 pounds. The turntable has click-stops every 10 degrees and has index markings for manual positioning in 5 degree increments. The PiXi Photographic VR Object Starter Kit includes the PiXi Manual Turntable and PictureWorks Spin PhotoObject software for both Macintosh and Windows 95/NT. Scheduled to ship in February, PiXi Photographic VR Object Starter Kit for E-Commerce will be available for US$179.95 and the PiXi Manual Turntable will be available for US$149.95. You can find more information about these products at each company's respective web site. Kaidan - PictureWorks