New Email Software Uses Videogame Technology

Released on = June 20, 2007, 6:20 am

Press Release Author = World Market Watch, Inc.

Industry = Software

Press Release Summary = Email meets videogame! World\'s first 3-dimensional email
client.

Press Release Body = 3D Mailbox: Email Meets Videogame

Imagine if your email software and The Sims met each other and fell in love. The
resulting child would be 3D Mailbox, an email client for Windows that represents
your mail with avatars and exotic 3D locations.

Level 1 of this hybrid tool/game is set in Miami Beach. The scene is filled with a
crystal-clear ocean, an olympic-sized pool, a hotel, an ice rink, Bossa Nova music,
seagulls, and other resort goodies. Upcoming levels will be set in such places as an
international airport, Outer Space, and Ancient Rome.

Each mail you receive is represented by an avatar (whose gender matches the person
who sent the mail). When they enter
the front gate, they are inspected by a Bermuda-clad policeman, who represents the
built-in spam filter. Good email gets to hang out poolside; uncertain mail goes to
chill in the ice rink; and spam gets sent to the beach, where they await their fate
at the jaws of the Great White Sharks. Private bars are your custom folders, and a
trash alley behind the hotel serves as your Trash mailbox.

But 3D Mailbox is also a serious e-mail application, with an integrated,
user-friendly SpamBayes spam filter; a \"Cool\" and \"Uncool\" sender
whitelist/blacklist; extensive message filters; and more.

\"Email is the killer app,\" says Savage. \"But it\'s deadly boring. 3D Mailbox makes it
fun.\" He adds, \"After years of using utilitarian programs like Outlook and Eudora, I
knew there had to be more to email. Using them is like driving around in a Jeep with
no shock absorbers. 3D Mailbox is like having your own tour bus, and you\'re the
star.\"

3D Mailbox was created by a team of 40 people, led by Robert Savage, the creator of
VisitorVille (www.visitorville.com), which depicts your live website traffic in a 3D
world. The first level is available for free from http://www.3dmailbox.com/

Web Site = http://www.3dmailbox.com

Contact Details = Address: PO Box 2167, Shepherdstown
United States of America

Phone Number:
Email: 3dmailbox.v.1.1@3dmailbox.com

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