Terravision (computer program)

[7] In 1994, Art+COM presented its project then named it T_Vision at the International Telecommunication Union Plenipotentiary Conference[8] in Kyoto on twin monitors of a RealityEngine by Silicon Graphics.

According to Mark Pesce, ART+COM's two main programmers Pavel Meyer and Axel Schmidt were able to fix the software program which they had set up in Berlin on a different machine, in the last 10 minutes prior to opening of the conference.

[9] T_Vision was shown one month later to the public for the first time at the Interactive Media Festival in the Variety Arts Center, Los Angeles, winning the judge's $5,000 prize.

[4] Terravision and its creators feature in the 2021 German miniseries The Billion Dollar Code made by Netflix which recounts the history of the program in a fictionalized account and ends with the 2014 patent infringement lawsuit they brought against Google.

[13] The series, which was shown on Netflix is prefaced by an episode of interviews with the ART+COM developers of Terravision and their legal representative.

Terravision installation at Intercommunication Center Tokyo, 1998
Terravision installation at NTT InterCommunication Center , 1998