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Robert Savage of 3D Mailbox has just sent me a press release regarding a new email program that thinks it’s a flight simulator. Or is it a flight simulator that thinks it’s an email program?!
3D Mailbox, the world’s first 3-dimensional email client, has released “Level 2: LAX”.
Set in Los Angeles Airport (LAX), 3D Mailbox allows the user to be an Air Traffic Controller simply by sending and receiving email.
Jumbo jets represent incoming and outgoing email, and thousands of real pilot-ATC conversations correspond to any flight or ground movement.
Based on an email’s origin or destination, 3D Mailbox assigns country-specific liveries to each plane. 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.
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.
Nigel Powell of the Sunday Times calls it: “A wonderfully wacky combination of game graphics and email technology. Email may never be the same again!”
3D Mailbox operates under Windows XP or Vista, and requires a minimum 128 Mb video card.
A video trailer is available at: http://www.3dmailbox.com/trailer/level02/index.html
“Level 2: LAX” is now available for $29.95 at http://www.3dmailbox.com/
I’ll be doing a review soon 
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