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Britney Spears Enters Interactive Entertainment Arena

   ENROUTE TO DEVELOP BRITNEY SPEARS INTERACTIVE VIDEO DVD
Britney Spears. Media contact: Eric Schmollinger, 415-391-2963, x214. (PRNewsFoto)[TC]
LOS ANGELES, CA USA
   FIRSTPERSON IMMERSIVE VIDEO CAMERA SYSTEM
The FirstPerson Immersive Video camera system combines multiple video streams captured from multiple outward-facing lenses into a single cylindrical or spherical video, delivering a truly immersive experience. Eight cameras are used to render a cylindrical perspective and ten cameras are used for a spherical perspective. Each video stream is then "stitched" together as well as digitally manipulated for high image quality using FirstPerson's software. Media contact: Eric Schmollinger, 415-391-2963, x214. (PRNewsFoto)[TC]
LOS ANGELES, CA USA
            FirstPerson Technology Used to Develop Britney Spears
                          360-Degree Immersive Video

    LOS ANGELES, May 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Enroute, Inc. announced today at the
Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) trade show that its FirstPerson(TM)
technology will be used to develop a Britney Spears 360-degree interactive
video DVD, containing concert footage created with its immersive video
technology.
    (Photo:  http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20010517/LATH007-a
             http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20010517/LATH007-b )
    "I'm really excited to be the first artist to use Enroute's FirstPerson
technology," said Spears.  "It's a great new way of watching a concert."
    FirstPerson, a leading immersive video technology developed by Enroute, is
an interactive viewing experience that puts the user in the center of the
action with full control over where to look and what to watch as a recorded
event unfolds on a 360-degree wrap-around landscape.  Using a controller, the
user can look up, down, left, right, zoom in, zoom out, turn around and see
everything happening from a full 360-degree perspective.  FirstPerson enables
viewers to interactively experience 360-degree full-motion video at broadcast
quality (high-resolution, 30 frames-per-second).
    "The immersive video category is starting to realize its full potential,"
said Paul Cha, executive vice president and co-founder of Enroute.  "Until
now, immersive video has mostly been used as an Internet application, and
consumers have had to watch it at a low resolution and frame rate.
FirstPerson is bringing immersive video into the mainstream as a physical,
mass market product and at a full 30 frames-per-second television quality."
    The release of this title will mark Spears' first venture into interactive
entertainment.  "We've certainly had several opportunities to bring Britney
into the world of interactive entertainment and electronic gaming," said
Johnny Wright, of Wright Entertainment Group and co-manager of Spears.  "But
we chose this opportunity because of Enroute's immersive video technology,
which is giving Britney the chance to lead the way into a new era of home
entertainment."

    Enroute, Inc. is a leading developer and provider of immersive technology
and the inventor of the standard-setting 360-degree FirstPerson format.
Enroute is pioneering mass-market adoption of its FirstPerson format by
delivering broadcast quality content to the consumer marketplace through
titles developed for home entertainment platforms.  Founded in 1996, the
privately held company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

    FirstPerson is a trademark of Enroute, Inc.


SOURCE Enroute, Inc.




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  • http://www.enroute.com
    CONTACT:
    Erik Schmollinger of Bender/Helper Impact,
    415-391-2963, ext. 214, erik_schmollinger@bhimpact.com, for
    Enroute, Inc.; or Carol Soper of Enroute, Inc., 650-843-1122,
    ext. 127, csoper@enroute.com