News Releases
 
[News release domestically issued on December 16, 1997]
NO.0468
 

Mitsubishi Multimedia Software "VISUALSHOCK"
to Enter the Sales Market




Mitsubishi Electric Corporation will start selling the Mitsubishi Multimedia Software "VISUALSHOCK" in the U.S. on the coming January 30, 1998.

"VISUALSHOCK" is the package software adopting Mitsubishi Electric's original hyperlink** technology, or animation hyperlink technology for the first time in the world, which is to integrate commercial software, or any non-in-house application software and will be applicable to the field of presentation or business education.

In addition, Mitsubishi Electric has agreed to cooperate with Virtus Corporation (the State of North Carolina, the U.S.) which reserves excellent technologies in the fields of virtual reality and real time 3D software. The combined product consisting of "VISUALSHOCK" and their Concept 3D modeling software "ConceptCAD" will be sold in the U.S. as well.

Furthermore, having received inquiries from ten-odd software vendors, major SI companies, and major re-sellers in the U.S., the sales/technical department is to open its office of Mitsubishi Electric America Corp. (Sunnyvale, California) to offer the U.S. market its distribution system of the package software business in an attempt to expand sales activities there.

** Hyperlink means relating multimedia data in the form of still photos, sounds, texts, and homepages of the Internet, etc. irrelevant of their respective media types.

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