Arsenal Interactive Launches HeyCosmoSM to Connect People Online Through Users` Live Video
Released on = June 20, 2007, 8:33 am
Press Release Author = Adriana Gascoigne
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Press Release Summary = Company enhances social networking experience with new interactivity service
Press Release Body = Mountain View, Calif. - June 19, 2007 - Arsenal Interactive Inc., today launched the public beta version of HeyCosmoSM (www.heycosmo.com), a stimulating, entertaining and interactive, free web-cam service based on a social video networking platform, enabling live interactivity and communication on the Internet.
Friends, social communities and businesses can simultaneously watch, create, broadcast, and share content online by using a broad range of features through HeyCosmo's directory, IM, blogs and search engines. Users can create live channels on just about anything. HeyCosmo's technology supports up to 10 live web-cam video participants, and up to 50 people can listen, watch, and chat during the session. In addition, HeyCosmo'sSM technology provides individuals and businesses monetization options for their content utilizing a fee for service model.
At the center of the HeyCosmo experience is a real-presence, multimedia window that can display just about anything on your desktop including, videos, images, games, or whatever participants choose to share and view together instantaneously. During its launch, HeyCosmoSM will showcase the world's first live, multi-playable Texas Hold'em poker game bringing the world of virtual gaming to life. Imagine the possibilities of playing a virtual game of poker at 30 frames per second. It's just like being in the same room, around the same poker table.
HeyCosmo will enable users to enjoy and partake in the following activities:
. Gaming will include live poker tournaments (with points and winnable prizes) and other community-based activities such as Draft Day Parties, Fantasy League sports, and dance/music/karaoke activities.
. Sharing activities will benefit from the tremendous increase of interest in sites such as MySpace and Flickr. However, users can now share experiences and contents live with real-time video with family, friends, and members of their virtual communities.
. Showing is expected to redefine the ability to use the web to educate, inform, and engage in hobbies and pastimes. For example, browsing a web in real-time within HeyCosmoSM with a group of participants can enable a more engaging and powerful ad hoc discussion and informational exchange, including cooking demonstrations, IT training, and enthusiast discussions.
"HeyCosmoSM has pioneered a new way for people to interact as if they were face-to-face, using a web-based video technology connecting people no matter where they are.\" said James H. Im, president and CEO, Arsenal Interactive, Inc. "HeyCosmoSM represents the evolution of casual games, chat rooms, social networks and video networks by empowering people to interact, communicate and share their favorite things on the web with others around the corner or around the world."
The magic behind HeyCosmoSM is a high-quality interactive multimedia engine developed using proprietary video, audio, and multi-party call control technologies. Arsenal\'s engineering team consists of innovative industry veterans who have collaborated for the past six years to build proven and scalable multimedia service platforms in collaboration with various industry standard groups and service provider entities. The technology behind HeyCosmoSM was originally developed by one of the world\'s renowned research and development center s, which was further optimized and customized by Arsenal Interactive, Inc. for HeyCosmoSM.
Bringing social networking to the next level with HeyCosmoSM is easy. Please visit : http://www.heycosmo.com
About Arsenal Interactive, Inc. Founded in November 2006, Arsenal Interactive, Inc. is a web-cam based social video network company enabling everything live! Arsenal Interactive's next generation portal, HeyCosmoSM, is built upon its proven and scalable technologies by a team of industry executives and engineers in emerging technologies, media, sports, and multimedia communications applications including advanced video codecs, wireless multimedia and real time multimedia services. Arsenal Interactive, Inc. is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, Calif.
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