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Viewpoint Opens Its Distribution Network to Free General Use in Support of Its Online Advertising and Consumer Products Businesses

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 14, 2005--Viewpoint Corporation (NASDAQ:VWPT) - a leading provider of innovative visual technologies for the web and the desktop - today announced that the Viewpoint Media Player (VMP) will no longer require a broadcast key to display content, thereby giving all developers free access to the Viewpoint Distribution Network for the very first time.


In addition, to enable developers to more readily create Viewpoint content, the company announced it will give free trials of its Enliven content creation tool (formerly codenamed 'Bonfire') to any developer who registers at Viewpoint.com.

"This move is a natural progression for our businesses," said Jay Amato, Viewpoint's chief executive officer. "By giving developers free access to our network and an easy way to create content, we in one fell swoop extend the Viewpoint Media Player's reach into new channels of distribution beyond the estimated 120 million computers we currently reside within. This powerfully supports not only our advertising business - by potentially making our player more pervasive - it provides strong backing to our search and photo management distribution strategies as well."

While Viewpoint will continue to charge its traditional fees to enterprise customers who require technology support, service, custom engineering and SDK support, the new Viewpoint Media Player v3.3 will allow those clients and any developer to publish content in the Viewpoint format and distribute that content to an unlimited number of websites without restriction. VMP v3.3 is available as of June 15th and also boasts Mozilla/Firefox(TM) support, VetScript(TM) - a full scripting language - and simple communication between Flash(R) ActionScript(TM) and VMP objects.

"This new functionality and ease of use means developers have a new tool to add to an arsenal that includes Flash," says Nicolas Brun, Viewpoint's director of technology. "Now developers are free to blend Flash and Viewpoint content easily in order to provide their clients with the cutting-edge presentations they're increasingly looking for."

To make the creation of Viewpoint content simpler and faster, Enliven will be offered as of June 15th as a free introductory offer available on the Viewpoint website. Enliven provides developers with a simple authoring environment, drag-and-drop scripting, real-time preview of content, and publishing templates to make posting to the web fast and easy.

"Also, to serve our loyal developers who have experience creating Viewpoint content, we're offering a professional version of Enliven," adds Mr. Brun. "Enliven PRO gives developers extensive file import capabilities to enable the creation of content that blends all media types such as 2D, 3D and video into something extraordinary."

Enliven PRO is available at an introductory price of $249.95. It comes bundled with Right Hemisphere's Deep Exploration and Viewpoint's video encoder powered by On2 Technologies as part of the package. To access the Enliven download page and to read more about new VMP and Enliven features and functionality, visit: http://www.viewpoint.com/pub/products/ after 8pm on June 15th.

ABOUT VIEWPOINT

The Viewpoint Platform is the technology behind some of the most innovative, visual experiences on the Web and on the desktop with leading clients such as America Online, General Electric, General Motors, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Lexus, Microsoft, Samsung, Scion, Sony and Toyota. The Unicast Online Advertising Suite - the Company's next-generation ad deployment and management system - and the Viewpoint Toolbar - the Vision for the Future of Search - are the latest breakthrough technologies using the full power of the Viewpoint Platform. More information on Viewpoint can be found at www.viewpoint.com.

The company has 130 employees principally at its headquarters in New York City and in Los Angeles.