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Corporate Planners Unlimited, Inc.’s Virtualis Convention and Learning Center™ Expands Due to Demand

Corporate Planners Unlimited Inc (Business Wire) - 05 February 2009

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Corporate Planners Unlimited, Inc.’s Virtualis Convention and Learning Center™ Expands Due to Demand

Virtualis™ Expands in Second Life™ Based upon Demand for Virtual Solutions for Meetings, Conventions and Special Events

DANA POINT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Dan Parks, President and Creative Director of Corporate Planners Unlimited, Inc. announced the expansion of Virtualis Convention and Learning Center™ due to increased demand. Virtualis™ is the largest and most meticulously-designed convention center in the revolutionary, computer-generated world of Second Life™. Second Life™ is accessible through a free downloadable application - the Second Life™ Browser. Using this application, people can create a graphical 3D representation of themselves, avatars, which can be maneuvered within the Second Life world.

Mirroring lavish real-world convention centers, Virtualis™ boasts state of the art facilities with educational breakout rooms, a grand ballroom, an exhibition hall and a new arena to accommodate as many as 360 virtual meeting, symposium, convention, special event and teambuilding attendees.

Virtualis has doubled in size in less than a year based upon the need for corporations and associations to find virtual solutions as a result of economic trends as well as long-term focus on corporate social responsibility and the reduction of carbon imprint. One company, who recently held a meeting for 75 virtual attendees from five global destinations without leaving their desks, asked if Parks could bring in several hundred attendees from around the globe. Virtualis™ Founder, Parks, immediately responded to the need by purchasing two additional virtual parcels of land and commenced with the expansion and relocation of existing buildings to build the new arena to meet 1Q 2009 demands.

You can view a video of a recent 2 day meeting held in Virtualis here: http://blip.tv/file/1391317/.

The expansion includes an arena with a center stage allowing each attendee to hear live presentations with colleagues and/or peers all in real-time. From each of the quadrants of the arena design are four additional breakout rooms where virtual attendees walk through glass tunnels to go to their respective smaller sessions. The innovative design of the new arena also will incorporate the same technology to integrate any form of white paper into a slide show presentation on multiple viewing screens along with live and/or streaming audio and video from external inputs.

Interested parties can schedule a preview tour of Virtualis and/or an interview with Dan Parks, Virtualis Founder, by contacting him at cpudan@mac.com or calling (800) 493-2545, Ext. 201 or visit the Virtualis website at www.virtualiscenter.com.

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