Released on: April 28, 2008, 4:39 am

Press Release Author: TiVi

Industry: Telecommunications

Press Release Summary: Latvia, Riga - April 28, 2008

Press Release Body: Soundness, one of the most successful and modern online games
made in Japan, has recently added a VoIP-based, dynamic voice conference technology.
The game\'s developer Visual First Co., Ltd., headquartered in the Japanese city of
Tanabe, chose to include the voice technology by Tilts Visiem (TiVi.com), an
experienced maker of SIP-based softphones.

Tilts Visiem is known in Japan via its local integrator and sales partner in Asia,
Coo-TV, a company that delivers audio and video content to PCs and mobiles. Coo-TV
and TiVi\'s partnership consists of developing, customising and implementing audio
and video conference systems.

Hiroshi Watanabe, the leading director of Soundness at Visual First Co., Ltd., said:
\"Soundness is our innovative game for people who like to communicate while realising
their dream of owning a dog and participating in adventure-filled stories. Visual
First now lets the gamers experience an audio environment and completely immerse
themselves in the activity\". Hiroshi Watanabe was an important contributor to the
famous Final Fantasy game (parts I, II, III and VII) made by Square Co., Ltd.

The game of Soundness, developed primarily for the Japanese market, lets its users
cooperate and compete with each other, while a distinguishing feature of the game is
interaction with dogs, such as feeding, training, going hunting or simply walking
the pets. Visual First Co., Ltd., has added an entirely new level to pet-interaction
games: the dogs living in Soundness can be hybridised or bred by their virtual
owners, in order to achieve the perfect type of dog and even obtain a certificate of
pedigree.

\"TiVi\'s dynamic voice communications engine adds a new degree of realistic
environment to the role-playing game,\" said Ivo Kutts, CEO of Tilts Visiem. \"The
multimedia game development market is profitable but also competitive, which means
that the authors have to continue to add features, thus attracting the interest of
new users and enchanting them again and again with extra surprises,\" Ivo Kutts
added. \"Today\'s multi-user games require seamless integration of talking, surround
sound and video to create a realistic feel of presence for the players at each
moment.\"

In a last year\'s presentation of Soundness in Tokyo, it was revealed that the game
creates a virtual world inhabited by players and their virtual dogs. Based on
real-world facts about dog breeding and training, the personality and skills of each
virtual dog depend on its parents\' virtual \"DNA\". The players of Soundness can earn
points, acquire and spend cybermoney, but they can also enhance their avatars by
using real money. Ultimately, Visual First Co., Ltd., will be creating a detailed
virtual \"town\" with buildings and businesses that would be bought and sold.

\"It is exciting for us to create, manage and offer our users a whole network-based
world with expanding activities, where the users can always discover new intriguing
secrets,\" Hiroshi Watanabe explained. \"Visual First Co., Ltd., is happy to announce
that the TiVi technology now allows not just playing and watching but also talking
to and hearing the fellow players of the Soundness community.\"

About the companies

Visual First Co., Ltd. (visualfirst.co.jp) is a Japanese company that develops
multi-player online games with in-game advertising and shopping for both virtual and
real-life merchandise.

Coo-TV.com (www.coo-tv.com) is a provider of global telephone calling and a range of
mobile video-on-demand technologies for PC and mobile/PDA platforms.

Tilts Visiem (TiVi.com) is a Latvia-based company developing and implementing
client-side and server-side VoIP software and video streaming systems since 2003.
Its key product is TiVi Phone, a customisable voice and video softphone for various
PC and mobile platforms.

For more information, contact:
info@visualfirst.co.jp
info@coo-tv.com
info@tivi.com


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