I, err, received this message today and thought I'd pass it on for
people to do with what they will.  I haven't investigated it personally,
you understand.  :-)  Maybe it's the only thing that can save VRML.  :-)


		Rob.


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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 14:13:51 -0800
From: Anthony Kyle Monday <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Internet's First VR Sex Community Launches

To Rob Ingram: 
We thought both yourself and the UK VR-SIG would be 
interested in knowing about our current VR project. Included below is our 
official press release. XRave has been up for one week and has already begun 
to develop a 
consistent community of recurrent users. It's our hope that we can help 
VRML's visibility on the web and prove its commercial viability. XRave is 
and will be a continually evolving site, with personlized avatars and a more 
streamlined chat ability on the way in the coming months. 

Thanks for you attention, 

Anthony Kyle Monday 
Web Producer 
Berkeley Interactive Design



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
BERKELEY INTERACTIVE DESIGN RELEASES XRAVE™ 
THE FIRST MULTI-USER VIRTUAL REALITY SEX CLUB 
"The libidinous maze of fetish-targeted chat alcoves, naughty images, sound 
effects, and adult stories is the first 3-D virtual world to exclusively 
target adult users with sybaritic intentions." 
--Wired News, February 11, 1998, Joyce Slaton 
http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/17849.html 
BERKELEY, CA Feb. 11, 1999 - Announcing the release of Berkeley Interactive 
Design’s 3D adult-oriented community, XRave, located at 
http://www.xrave.com. The Web's first 3D sex club, XRave™ is an immersive 
virtual reality environment full of erotically-charged sex.bots, 
techno-music, chat rooms and an endless supply of adult-oriented images, 
stories and spatialized sound-effects. 
Developed by the Virtual Reality Laboratory of new media production firm 
Berkeley Interactive Design (http://www.berkeleyidesign.com) and its roster 
of avant-garde writers, musicians and VR architects, XRave's™ fully-rendered 
3D storyworld creates a unique social environment guaranteed to stir up 
controversy in the Net culture. 
"XRave™ radically reconfigures our understanding of what human sexuality on 
the Net can be," says company CEO Caroline E. White. "Our immediate aim is 
to create a 3D Webspace for erotic play that is more compelling than the 
traditional sex industry with its 'GIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS!' aesthetic. With 
XRave™, we’re showing people that the future of online sex is more 
community-oriented; there are lots of ‘hot chat’ sites, but what seems to 
be lacking at the present moment is the establishment of interest-based 
communities. This is what makes XRave unique in the world of Web erotica.”

Created to be an adaptable virtual environment, XRave™ is enriched with an 
archive of over 3.5GB of X-rated photographs and art, volumes of erotic 
fiction, and hours of original techno, trip-hop and ambient music created by 
XRave's™ own DJ-X, Misery and The Lotus Eaters. 
"We’ve designed a 3D space,” says VRML architect Jay Dillemuth, "that 
functions both as a compelling social environment, and also as a new way to 
organize the vast amount of data in our archives. There are nearly half a 
million erotic images at XRave™ which have been hand sorted into more than 
500 categories, all easily accessed via the various Raves, Chill Rooms and 
Libraries. This is a web-interface that is as revoluntionary as it is 
stimulating. XRave™ is the only community on the Web where fetish 
afficianados from all over the world and of all sexual persuasions can 
congregate in an environment designed to encourage creative role-playing.”

The main Rave areas include the Straight Rave, the Gay Rave, the Dyke Rave 
and the Fetish Rave, all of which are presented in a never-before-seen 3D 
interface that exploits the potential of the Web to create more engaging 
social experiences for interactive sex enthusiasts worldwide. 
Berkeley Interactive Design specializes in the production of 
state-of-the-art 3D storyworlds for Internet distribution. The company's 
first web project, Holo-X™ (http://www.holo-x.com), made in conjunction with 
the Alt-X® Online Network (http://www.altx.com), was released in December 
and became an immediate success. The day Holo-X™ was released, The New York 
Times said: "it offers a fascinating glimpse at the future of hypertext" and 
Wired News announced that it was time to, "[m]ove over, Lara Croft and Kyoko 
Date, a new virtual vixen is in town...the Sorceress of Language in 
Uncharted Technologies, aka S.L.U.T., the saucy, green-haired star of Holo-X." 
Interested visitors to the site are invited to take advantage of a special 
promotional offer giving free admission to the site during the first week of 
launch. And throughout the month of February, limited free passes will be 
given out to those who can correctly answer the daily erotic trivia question. 
To experience the full potential of XRave™, the Cosmo Player 2.1 plug-in 
(VRML browser) and the current version of Netscape Navigator must be 
installed. 
Contact: 
Caroline E. White/CEO 
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Copyright © 1999 Berkeley Interactive Design. All Rights Reserved. 




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