LAVA! MV3 (Music-Video-3D) Player, Co-Founder Mike Barnes

Mike Barnes presenting the revolutionary LAVA Media Player live on CNN FInancial news (NYC). Integrated MP3, 3D VIdeo Player with integrated 2D/3D advertising push engine. LAVA.com startup founded 1999-2002. Music meets gaming meets video! Lava Producer & Lava Reactor authoring tools.

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Science & Technology

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• LAVA
• MV3
• lava.com
• Mike
• Barnes
• Creative
• Labs
• Producer
• Reactor
• Open
• GL
• Direct
• 3D
• Music
• Video

[iwannarockwithyou200]

Awesome product! When can I get it.

[mblazemusic]

Alas development was stopped in 2002 though may still be up on some sites- the basic Player was FREE. The product was way ahead of its time and launched in 1999 and was shown at Woodstock 1999 behind FatBoy Slim & Moby!

[marquitos480]

What a great program.. Would love to incorporate this into the live show..

[mblazemusic]

There were 3 versions: LAVA Player, LAVA Producer & LAVA Reactor (which could also handle realtime video streams mapped onto 3D objects). However, with the dotcom bust in 2002 Creative decided to stop funding its incubator startup initiatives.

The A/V technology was developed at Creative's Advanced Technology Center in California by Alan Seefeldt and Alan Peevers and productization led by Mike Barnes.

[NightGuardian1994]

I have all three versions of this program but still have been baffled by the .lvo file format that is used for the 3d objects. It would have made much more sense if a universal file format was used for the 3d objects, such as .3ds

[southport97]

At one time, i had downloaded all the files back in 2000. The dancing mushroom was my fav.

[kendrasf]

Fascinating Idea. Sounds like a great tool for musicians!