Company:Planet 9 Studios

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Planet 9 Studios is an American software development company that develops 3D apps, 3D graphics for navigation, tracking, and social networking.[1][2][3] It was founded in 1991.[1][4] Planet 9 Studios is known for developing VirtualSOMA, the first online, 3D virtual world, released in 1995.[3]

History

Planet 9 Studios was founded in 1991 by David Colleen.[1][4] Prior to the availability of 3D browsers on the Internet, Planet 9 Studios released a low-polygon model of the South of Market (SoMA) neighborhood in San Francisco.[4][5] When 3D Internet browsers became publicly available in August 1995, Planet 9 Studios released VirtualSOMA, a virtual world based on the SoMA area modeled in VRML.[6][4][3] Later, a VR model of the planned San Francisco Giants ballpark, was launched.[7] In 1996, the company went on to release a full virtual re-creation of San Francisco made using VRML that allowed users to interact with other users’ 3D avatars.[8][9] Virtual San Francisco was considered the first city that was recreated in a 3D virtual space.[10][11]

Planet 9 Studios made a Virtual Las Vegas in 3D for Toshiba America to promote Toshiba's appearance at Comdex in Fall 1996.[12] Microsoft and Apple were also among Planet 9 Studios’ first clients in the 1990s.[1]

Planet 9 Studios won the Avvy Award for Best Avatar for its character model based on a geisha.[13] In 1998, the company also won the Avvy Award for Best Episodic Performer for its "Genius" character model.[14]

Planet 9 Studios was part of the team working on SRI International’s Digital Earth Project from 1999-2002.[15]

By 2005, Planet 9 Studios had also been providing commercial simulations of architectural projects for architectural firms for a decade.[16]

Planet 9 Studios’ 3D city data was used as backdrops for the 2007 film Zodiac.[1]

Software

Planet 9 Studios’ earliest virtual cities were created using VRML.[17][18] In addition to the aforementioned San Francisco and Las Vegas virtual cities, the company has also modeled virtual cities based on locations such as the Shinjuku ward of Tokyo.[19]

Planet 9 Studios has also provided 3D AR and VR applications of cities for The Pentagon’s urban recon programs.[2] The company has also collaborated with DARPA on 3D scene models for guiding UAVs on the battlefield.[20]

Planet 9 Studios has also released eScene, a navigation software that includes building facades rendered in 3D.[21] Its data has also been used in other navigation systems, such as Magellan's Maestro Elite 5340-navigation system.[1]

Planet 9 Studios also developed a prototype 3D conference room for SPS Payment Systems.[22]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Planet 9 Studios' RayGun could make GPS fun" (in en-US). 2008-05-19. https://venturebeat.com/mobile/planet-9-studios-raygun-could-make-gps-fun/. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 WIRED Staff. "Slideshow: Pentagon's Urban Recon Takes Wing" (in en-US). Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. https://www.wired.com/2005/12/69612/. Retrieved 2023-10-09. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Harmon, Amy (1995-08-09). "THE CUTTING EDGE: COMPUTING / TECHNOLOGY / INNOVATION : Virtual Reality Takes on a Third Dimension" (in en-US). https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-08-09-fi-33281-story.html. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "University of Malaysia V- Faculty Session 2000-2001". 2000. http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/10281/1/Leong_Kee_Foo_(V-FCULTY).pdf. 
  5. ↑ Pichler, Michael; Orasche, Gerbert; Andrews, Keith; Grossman, Ed; McCahill, Mark (1995). "VRweb: A multi-system VRML viewer" (in en). Proceedings of the first symposium on Virtual reality modeling language - VRML '95. ACM Press. pp. 77–85. doi:10.1145/217306.217317. ISBN 978-0-89791-818-3. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=217306.217317. 
  6. ↑ "VIRTUAL REALITY ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB: A SURVEY OF WEB SITES". 1996. https://ijvr.eu/article/view/2606/8664. 
  7. ↑ "Mortgage Pros Come to you on the Net". The San Francisco Examiner: pp. 57. 1996-04-21. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-francisco-examiner-san-fran-exam/131809227/. 
  8. ↑ Kay, David C.; Muder, Douglas J. (1996) (in en). VRML & 3D on the Web for Dummies. IDG Books Worldwide. ISBN 978-1-56884-611-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=yJNCMxIBB5cC&q=planet+9+studios. 
  9. ↑ "Fr Worth Planet 9 Studios". Fort Worth Star-Telegram: pp. 4. 1996-06-24. https://www.newspapers.com/article/fort-worth-star-telegram-fr-worth-planet/131809271/. 
  10. ↑ "3D Multimedia Historic Bratislava". Real Corp. 2008-05-19. ISBN 978-3-9502139-3-5. https://www.corp.at/archive/CORP2008_79.pdf. 
  11. ↑ "Insights of 3D Digital Cities: The Past, Present and Futures". Department of Architecture, National Cheng Kung University. https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=3620d5d010aa830ea29b17fbf9458c13cdf953e4. 
  12. ↑ "Vegas Strip Goes Online". Arizona Republic: pp. 32. 1996-11-12. https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-republic-arizona-republic/131809469/. 
  13. ↑ "Web Techniques: Sidebar". https://people.apache.org/~jim/NewArchitect/docs/new1013637805/sidebar1.htm. 
  14. ↑ "Avatars98 Avvy Award Winners". https://ccon.org/conf98/report/avvywinners.html. 
  15. ↑ "SRI's Digital Earth Project" (in en-US). 2002-08-01. https://www.sri.com/publication/computer-vision-pubs/sris-digital-earth-project/. 
  16. ↑ "Film Shows How Project Will Look In Real Time". Daily Record: pp. 31. 2005-05-24. https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-record-daily-record-planet-9-studi/131809437/. 
  17. ↑ "Virtual City Resource Centre - Cities on the Web". http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/planning/cities.htm. 
  18. ↑ "VRML Will Make Over Web". Santa Cruz Sentinel: pp. 9. 1997-01-20. https://www.newspapers.com/article/santa-cruz-sentinel-santa-cruz-sentinel/131809519/. 
  19. ↑ "Take in Tokyo Without Leaving you Computer". The Honolulu Advertiser: pp. 29. 2001-04-24. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-honolulu-advertiser/131809877/. 
  20. ↑ "3D Laser Scanning for Urban Modeling (Part 1 of 2)" (in en). https://www.geoweeknews.com/news/3d-laser-scanning-for-urban-modeling-part-1-of-2. 
  21. ↑ "Infotainmaps". 2006-02-15. https://www.directionsmag.com/article/3006. 
  22. ↑ (in en) Put an end to those nasty hit and runs on your website. InfoWorld. 1996-12-09. pp. 53–54. https://books.google.com/books?id=GToEAAAAMBAJ&dq=planet+9+studios&pg=PA56. 



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