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NEW YORK----Recording artist, peace
advocate and Manhattan personality, Ivan Wilzig (a.

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Grand Castles of
America visits favorite castles across the country to reveal the
unique stories that gave rise to fantastical Old World structures here
in the New World.
Virtual Journeys will allow visitors at this and future exhibits to
experience and interact with scientific discoveries using the same SGI(R)
technology that leading researchers around the world depend on for
groundbreaking innovations in all areas of science. Because the Immersive Theater is based on the SGI
Reality Center solution, the Gulf Coast Exploreum can also utilize data sets
from other museums and the Virtual Science Network, an international alliance
of museums , science centers and research organizations, initiated by SGI,
intended to transform leading scientific discoveries into compelling visual
experiences for the general public.

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Sir Ivan's Castle to be Featured on Travel Channel's Grand Castles of America; World Premiere Sunday June 12 9PM EST

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Gulf Coast Science Center Opens a Spectacular Immersive Theater Powered by SGI Technology That Allows Visitors to Experience Jerusalem - as It Stood in 1 AD

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Formerly known as Wilzig Castle , the residence is one
of the world's most famous private homes and the scene of some of the
Hamptons ' most lavish and talked about parties. This is not just an
architectural structure - this is a home full of music, energy and
life," says Sir Ivan. They can
then proceed to the approximately 2,000 sq. powered by
an 8-processor SGI(R) Onyx(R) visualization system with three SGI(R)
InfiniteReality3 (TM) graphics pipes.

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The facilitator acts as
tour guide and, with just a click of the mouse in the Reality Center facility,
can take the audience, based on their areas of interest, just about anywhere
they may want to go within the Temple Mount real-time visual simulation model. There isn't an archeological monument in the world that
couldn't use this technology. "Using the SGI Reality Center
facility , we will take people through this journey in time and space. In addition to being a repository for
Immersive Theater shows, the Sci-Quest Immersive Theater Network enables
members to have collaborative shows , letting visitors interact and share the
experience of a live, collaborative show at Immersive Theaters located
anywhere in the world.

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Built in 1997 and perched on top of the most beautiful hills of
Water Mill in Southampton NY, Sir Ivan's Castle is a 15,000 square
foot fairytale come to life. In 2000, after
two and a half decades working up to the highest corporate ranks in
his family's multi-billion dollar banking business, Sir Ivan gave it
all up to pursue a career in music. Following in his father 's
philanthropic footsteps, Sir Ivan has adopted a super-hero persona
known as "Peaceman" to generate funds for humanitarian causes. "The combination of
education and entertainment makes science immediately interesting in a way
textbooks cannot. The data set is visualized through the
Immersive Theater using three Barco 3D Galaxy DLP(TM) projectors that display
images on a 120-degree curved screen , 13 feet high by 32 feet long, with a
16-foot radius.sgi.

NOTE: Silicon Graphics, SGI , Onyx, Reality Center, InfiniteReality, the
SGI cube and the SGI logo are registered trademarks and InfiniteReality3 and
The Source of Innovation and Discovery are trademarks of Silicon Graphics,
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Wilzig.
"We have five busses coming from a synagogue in Miami, plus many church
groups, some as far away as Memphis, and Cincinnati, and many more schools,
colleges and universities," said Sullivan . Since the NASA funding only covered the
cost of the computer hardware and SGI Professional Services installation, Gulf
Coast Exploreum received additional funding for the other components of the
theater (everything from seating to fire extinguishers) from the Hearin-
Chandler Foundation in Mobile. The Immersive Theater is officially called the
Hearin-Chandler Virtual Journeys Digital Theater., and can be found on the Web
at http://www.

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Part of the Exploreum's Gala Opening tonight is the unveiling of
the Exploreum's brand new Virtual Journeys Immersive Theater, powered by a
visualization system from Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI). To further enhance the
public's experience of the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit, the Virtual Journeys
Immersive Theater features a guided interactive tour of the reconstructed
Herodian Temple Mount in Jerusalem as it existed 2000 years ago. In the Exploreum's upstairs Minds -On Hall, visitors
can view and participate in various interactive experiments including DNA
testing and radio-carbon dating of the preserved animal skin scrolls. Whether it's sharing images to aid in brain surgery, finding oil
more efficiently, studying global climate, providing technologies for homeland
security and defense or enabling the transition from analog to digital
broadcasting, SGI is dedicated to addressing the next class of challenges for
scientific, engineering and creative users. All other
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It's a
marriage of the actual artifacts from Qumran with the virtual understanding of
what it was like way back then, both from an architectural and historical
point of view, and from the point of view of religion.com.

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From turn-of-the-century
stone palaces and modern day castles-in-the-sky to historic structures
transported stone by stone from Europe, America's grand castles are
the result of entrepreneurship and ingenuity; over-the-top crowning
achievements of extraordinary success stories.
"I've always been a person who appreciates one-of-a-kind things,
so, naturally, I wanted to build a one-of-a-kind home. foot Virtual Journeys Immersive
Theater for the 8 to 9 minute interactive presentation.

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Starting
tomorrow, January 21, the general public can visit the 50-seat theater, which
will hold four screenings an hour and will highlight the archeology, history
and religious significance of the temple. He credits the scrolls,
considered to be the finest archeological find of the 20th century, and the
SGI Reality Center presentation of the Temple Mount, re-created as Jesus
experienced the Temple in his time, with the tremendous excitement the science
center has generated. The first
interactive Immersive Theater, built around a Reality Center solution, opened
at Sci-Quest in the spring of 2003. With offices worldwide, the
company is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif .

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, The largest touring
exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls and related artifacts ever seen in the
United States arrives today at the Gulf Coast Exploreum science center in
Mobile, Ala. Michael Sullivan, Exploreum
Director."
The Exploreum's Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition coupled with the Temple Mount
virtual tour has generated 50,000 advance ticket sales and is currently slated
to run through April 24, according to Sullivan."
The seven-year-old Gulf Coast Exploreum is the second science center in
Alabama to open an interactive Immersive Theater powered by SGI through
funding from NASA and administered by Sci-Quest in Huntsville. SGI's vision is to provide technology
that enables the most significant scientific and creative breakthroughs of the
21st century.

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The greatest pleasure I have is sharing the
Castle with as many people as possible.
"I truly believe museums with interactive SGI Reality Center environments
are going to become the museums of the future .
"The total immersion and unprecedented realism offered by SGI Reality
Center visualization solutions are changing the paradigm of what information
science centers, planetariums and museums present and how they present it,"
said Afshad Mistri, director of marketing, science centers, SGI ."

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Grand Castles of America contains never seen before footage of Sir
Ivan's live performance of his hit single "Peace on Earth ," at his
launch party in 2004. His
heartfelt mission statement can be viewed on www.sirivanmusic .
Using the SGI(R) Reality Center(R) facility, an Exploreum facilitator will
encourage questions and interaction from the audience. And now, with Virtual Journeys, we have added the
visualization element, which is how real science is conducted today.

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Sir Ivan) and
his Hamptons' home, Sir Ivan 's Castle, will be the feature focus of
the Travel Channel's upcoming program Grand Castles of America , airing
Sunday, June 12.
Further enhancements will include an 8 foot stone waterfall leading
into a moat, a drawbridge as well as a regulation NBA basketball
court.
Banker-turned-singer, Sir Ivan is the son of Auschwitz survivor,
legendary banker and philanthropist Siggi B. The interactive
Immersive Theater concept was developed by Sci-Quest in Huntsville.

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The singer's current single, "Peace on Earth," on Artemis Records,
is continuing his winning streak, hitting number 2 on the UK's DMC
World Club Chart and proving a favorite in clubs from London to Berlin
to Ibiza. In medicine, in biochemistry ,
in so many different areas, what you can teach in this room is
phenomenal -- totally limitless ," said W.
In education, in science, in art, the Reality Center facility has terrific
possibilities . The exhibit includes a
fragment of a scroll containing passages from the Deuteronomy chapter of the
Hebrew and Christian Bible-the only scroll in existence with the entire text
of the Ten Commandments . While the Temple Mount is a 2D data set, the Exploreum plans
to utilize its membership in the Sci -Quest Immersive Theater Network this
summer by showing 3D interactive data sets such as Cosmic Connections , Inside
the Human Body, and Earth Journey, which are available as part of the
Sci-Quest Immersive Theater Network.

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The data set even includes differing opinions on the archaeological finds,
which can be pointed out both visually and verbally during the presentation."
At the Exploreum, visiting students and the general public first enter the
Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit gallery featuring 12 large scrolls and artifacts from
the Qumran site where the scrolls may have originated.
"Interactivity , or 'science in action,' is considered the future of
science education by many in the field," noted Sullivan.

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In the same way
a piece of art should be seen by the public, this home should not be
locked behind gates. His follow-up
single, a remake of the 1967 Scott McKenzie hit "San Francisco" ("Wear
Some Flowers in Your Hair") also proved a huge success and reached
number 7 on the Billboard Singles Sales Chart.

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Castles are the stuff of fairytales. With turrets, multiple balconies and a
Grand Hall, the castle features two Master Suites in separate towers,
ten bathrooms, fully-equipped spa , gymnasium, billiard and game rooms,
themed guest bedrooms (Roman, Egyptian and Balinese), Versace -inspired
infinity pool, tennis court, and Olympic-size sand volleyball court. Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit and Virtual Tour of the Temple Mount Garners
50,000 Advance Ticket Sales

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. "I'm very bullish on the future and on the idea that we'll be doing
things in this theatre 10 years from now that we haven't even thought of yet.

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Sir Ivan 's first single, a remake of John Lennon's classic
"Imagine," became an instant chart-topping, club favorite and went on
to become a Top 40 hit on the Billboard Club Play Chart. We have
the SGI Onyx system behind a glass wall so visitors can actually see the
computer that provides this incredible learning experience. We're showing a
wonderful, really solid data set of the Temple Mount, which was developed
jointly by the Urban Simulation Team at UCLA and the Israel Antiquities
Authority . "Gulf Coast
Exploreum joins many of the world's leading interactive educational
environments by offering a new level of exploration and understanding of the
world, allowing visitors to experience unreachable places billions of light
years away down to experiencing a DNA strand, all through the immersive and
interactive capabilities of SGI Reality Center.