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Over the decade that the Virtual Instruments team has been together, our collaborations have ranged from web projects for Kellog's, Pantene, and Cablevision; websites for over three dozen domains; courseware for Cengage, Pearson and Prentice-Hall; software for ITP, IBM, Bayer, and AT&T; and CD packages for The Hollies, Deep Purple, and MSN's On Air. Here are some of our more recent success stories.
• Cengage
Built two premium-content websites featuring podcasts, video, musical examples, and thousands of interactive exercises with pre-test and quiz mode capabilities.
• Prentice Hall
Built a Listening Guide software application in Flash that plays CD-Audio files and dynamically displays track- and time-based text.
• Arc Worldwide for Kellogg's
This global ad agency contracted with us to build the Fourth Quarter 2005 Web promotion for Kellogg's Pop-Tarts. Written in Flash and Perl, the cartoon builder lets kids create cartoons and email them to their friends.
• Pearson Education
Built over 400 interactive exercises and jsp templates for two different series of English Grammar online learning courses.
• Software Development: The PitchWeb
Designed and built this multi-user musical instrument that allows users worldwide to play together in real-time and in concert with a live band (www.pitchweb.net). A mobile phone version of the software recently debuted in Tokyo and Canberra.
• Engage Technologies and Microsoft Corporation
Designed and developed an animated Flash-based presentation to support Bill Gates' Streaming Media West presentation on targeted content delivery technologies.
• The Cathedral Project
The first interactive work of music and art on the web, the Cathedral site (http://cathedral.monroestreet.com) won the ASCAP/Deems Taylor Internet Award.
• KPE for Pringles
Built the interactive Clio-award-winning PopBlaster, a Flash-based musical instrument that lets the user write and share songs of their own creation.
