Pulver.com picked SeeStorm among 100 private companies to watch in worldwide communication industry

Encinitas CA and Moscow, Russia – Jeff Pulver picked SeeStorm for pulver100 list, which includes private companies in the communications sector that have substantial real-world deployments and enjoy significant growth rates. SeeStorm software building blocks for 3D talking characters include automated lip sync, full-duplex VoIP, voice changing, computer vision technologies for tracking human facial mimics and emotions. In the 2002 SeeStorm launched a range of products for driving 3D talking heads:

• AvatarGuide SDK - talking 3D characters speaking from a web page;
• AvatarMail SDK - instant messages and emails with talking 3D characters;
• AvatarVideo SDK - real-time communication (internet telephony) via talking 3D characters;
• LipSynchro SDK - driving talking characters in any application using voice input;
• SeeStorm Messenger - voice/visual peer-to-peer internet telephony software;
• Voice Disguise SDK - masking the user's voice to sound unfamiliar, accelerating/decelerating the speech speed;
• Head/FaceTracking - detecting/ tracking the facial movements from the video stream;
• FaceFeatureExtraction - detecting the facial features on any image or video stream;

SeeStorm is distributing these SDKs by cooperating with VAR (Value Added Reseller) partners who do deployment and customization for SeeStorm products. SeeStorm is now establishing the VARs network in S.Korea, Japan, USA, UK and other countries. Recently SeeStorm entered in cooperation with TB-Korea (www.tb-korea.com) and CyberExtruder. Barracuda Inc., game software publisher of Titanic: "Adventure out of Time ©", boasting sales of 1.5 million copies in 60 countries worldwide, selected SeeStorm Messenger to provide users with interactive online communication tools; "We are proud to be picked by Jeff Pulver for pulver100", said SeeStorm's founding CEO Andrew Sviridenko. "Jeff is the visionary of the IP communications industry, and the acknowledgment from Pulver.com mean much for us. SeeStorm mission is to help IP communication industry to change and make human interaction on the net more fun, visual and private though innovations".

About SeeStorm, Inc.

SeeStorm Inc. is a spin-off of SPIRIT Corp, a prominent supplier of DSP software products that licenses its software and technology to such multinational giants as Atmel, Japan Radio Company, Hyundai, Namco/Mitsui, NEC, Toshiba, Nortel Networks, Panasonic, Trans Cosmos, Samsung and Texas Instruments.

Contacts:

Alexander Drozdov, Marketing Director, +7-095-912 6823, press@see-storm.com