News: Email Meets Flight Sim
Posted on Wednesday, May 28 @ 02:14:04 BST by darklord |
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3D Mailbox, the world's first 3-dimensional email client, has released "Level 2: LAX". Set in Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), 3D Mailbox allows the user to be an "Air Traffic Controller" simply by sending and receiving email.
3D Mailbox is designed so that jumbo jets represent incoming and outgoing email, and thousands of real pilot-ATC conversations correspond to any flight or movement. Based on an email's origin or destination, 3D Mailbox assigns country-specific liveries to each plane. According to World Market Watch, Inc.'s Robert Savage, the founder of 3D Mailbox, an email from Australia, for example, will arrive on a Qantas 747; an email to the UK will depart on either British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, or British Caledonian. Over a dozen US liveries carry domestic email. Emails with attachments are delivered by cargo planes such as FedEx, UPS, DHL, and CargoLux. The built-in SpamBayes SPAM filter sends junk mail to the airport boneyard, and puts uncertain mail in a holding pattern.
Savage says users can explore the airport using a HUD; hang out in the tower; or sit back and watch the dozens of cinematic cameras capture the action above and below.
For more information on this product, please visit the 3D Mailbox website.
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