Adobe Atmosphere

Adobe Atmosphere

Other names	3D Anarchy
Developer(s)	Adobe Systems
Initial release	March 26, 2001 (2001-03-26)
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Available in	English
Type	3D computer graphics
License	Proprietary
Website	www.adobe.com/products/atmosphere/

Adobe Atmosphere was a computer program for making and exploring 3D worlds on the Internet. People could build a world on their computer, put it on a website, and let other people walk through it using a free web browser add-on.

The program was first made by a company called Attitude Software, where it was named 3D Anarchy. Adobe Systems bought it in 1999 and gave it the new name.

In a world, each person was shown as a character called an avatar. People could talk to each other by typing messages. Worlds were joined together by "portals", which worked like the links on web pages. Clicking a portal took the user to another world.

The program ran only on Microsoft Windows and worked best with the Internet Explorer web browser.

Adobe Photoshop Album could turn a set of photos into a 3D room that people could walk through and look at the pictures on the walls.

History

Adobe showed the first test version of Atmosphere on March 26, 2001. The full version, called 1.0, came out on October 22, 2003. During the test years, the program was free. When the full version came out, Adobe began to charge money for the part used to build worlds.

In December 2004, Adobe stopped making Atmosphere. The company said the choice was based on the market, what customers said, and its own research. Adobe later added 3D tools to its Adobe Acrobat program, but those were made with technology from a different company, not from Atmosphere.

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