It was discontinued and its technology folded into other products.
MetaCreations' Canoma was acquired by Adobe Systems.
Fractal Design's Poser was sold to Curious Labs, which was itself acquired by e-Frontier and finally Smith Micro Software.
MetaTools' Bryce was sold to Corel and subsequently acquired by Daz 3D.
Ray Dream Studio and Specular Infini-D were succeeded by Carrara, which was sold to Eovia and subsequently acquired by Daz 3D.
Further Viewpoint’s NASDAQ stock ticker symbol changed from VWPT to ENLV to reflect the Company’s name change in January 2008. In the process of this Viewpoint got declared the Consumer Products division of the Enliven Marketing Technologies Corporation ( Nasdaq: ENLV). which held about 17.7% of the full daughter Metastream Corporation at that time. from Computer Associates International Inc. In 2000, Eliven bought all not-yet possessed shares of Viewpoint Digital Inc. ) The newly formed Viewpoint Corporation divested itself of all former MetaCreations graphics products to push MetaStream technology. which was a 1988 founded enterprise that specialized in the area of digitalisation and modelling for the movie industry like for Star Trek, and it got under the hood of Computer Associates in 1998. (The name Viewpoint derives from Viewpoint DataLabs International, Inc. MetaCreations formed a subsidiary company called MetaStream, acquired Viewpoint Digital, and ultimately merged all operations together to become the Viewpoint Corporation. In 1999, MetaCreations invested itself heavily in the newly developed '3d on the Web' technology " MetaStream" and began restructuring from graphics applications to Internet technology. The software and GUI designer, highly valued creative head for his contributions to the public brand appearance, Kai Krause (MetaTools, Goo-Series, KPT. John Wilczak and Mark Zimmer led the initial operations. MetaCreations was founded in 1997 by the mergers of MetaTools, Fractal Design Corporation, Ray Dream, Specular, and Real Time Geometry Lab (RTG).
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