The RSC's experience with project Prospect was also labour intensive, involving collaboration with text-miners and the input of skilled, in-house domain-specialists, with sufficient breadth of expertize to understand XML, to edit, mine, mark-up and 'user-friendlify' the final results.
Two items each provided three levels for the social activities (I can join in activities with family and friends, I'm unable to join in activities with family and friends, I feel very isolated) and Travelling (Travelling distances is not a problem, Travelling distances is a problem, I am reluctant to leave the house) domains.
The server that housed the domain belonged to a company called Listrak, which mostly helped deliver mass-marketing e-mails: blasts of messages advertising spa treatments, Las Vegas weekends, and other enticements.
The knowledge he has gained as a founder of the effects and animation house Digital Domain was the key to the development of both Avatar and 3D: "If you don't have a project driving the technology," he said, "it just lies dormant".
"We've already been involved in things like that," says Steve Preeg of special effects house Digital Domain.
The $110 million production budget was covered by Louisiana tax breaks, Gigi Pritzker's OddLot Entertainment and a $17 million investment from special effects house Digital Domain.
Prominent local effects houses Digital Domain and Rhythm & Hues have laid off hundreds of high-tech workers in last two years.
Visual effects house Digital Domain, with whom Cameron has a partnership, joined the project, which was supposed to begin production in mid-1997 for a 1999 release.
The late Tupac Shakur rose again last weekend at Coachella -- brought to life by James Cameron's visual production house Digital Domain, and two hologram-imaging companies, AV Concepts and the U.K.-based Musion Systems.
