The immediate availability of version 2.0 of its flagship product Blink 3D®, a virtual worlds development platform has been announced today by a leading supplier of technology for developing and viewing Web-based virtual worlds, Pelican Crossing, Inc.

Pelican Crossing's new inDuality client, which forms the cornerstone of its upcoming inDuality platform is included in the new release. The inDuality client allows users to embed virtual worlds from different vendors in any Web page. Blink 3D virtual worlds are are suported by the initial release of inDuality, subsequent releases will add support for other virtual worlds, such as Second Life®. At the Virtual Worlds Conference in San Jose and the Virtual Worlds Forum in London, in October last year, Pelican Crossing demonstrated an alpha version of inDuality and the ability to teleport between different virtual worlds, including Blink 3D, Second Life, X3D and the Flash® based Club PenguinTM.

Some of the new features in Blink 3D's version 2 include:

- Orthographic Views with Drag and Drop Support for fast positioning and texturing of objects
- Improved asset creation pipeline, with support for Automatic Asset Importing & Synchronization
- In addition to HTML materials, new video material formats: Flash video .flv and YouTube video
- Over forty new and enhanced Behaviors including support for Google Analytics
- Morphing
- New Video Tutorials, Code Examples, Knowledge Base Articles and Extensive Documentation

Offering: Blink 3D Standard edition at $399, Blink 3D Lite edition at $199 and the Blink 3D Ultra Lite edition for free, Version 2 comes with a new pricing structure.

CEO of Pelican Crossing, Jackson, declared: "We are not talking here about simply customizing a pre-built 3D apartment." He added: "with Blink 3D you can create whatever sort of virtual world you want, quickly, easily and for free. With Web-based virtual worlds there is no land to purchase or membership fees to pay. Simply create your virtual world, link to your friends, put it on your Web site, stir and enjoy."

For internal use behind a firewall or for Business to Customer or Business to Business applications, Blink 3D can be used to quickly create secure and branded virtual worlds by enterprises. Blink 3D can easily be used by both amateurs and professionals for creating personal virtual worlds.