Moove is a privately held company based in Köln

KOLN

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, Germany

Germany

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, with a branch in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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. The company is owned by Lothar Bongartz and Dr. A. Burak Kozan, a pair of professional software developers. Before establishing moove, they had already developed products such as Nantucket Clipper Tools, CA-Visual Objects, and DC-Tools, development tools in the fields of object-oriented programming

Object-oriented programming

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, databases and general function libraries. The company was founded in 1994.

Moove is the creator of the Virtual world

Virtual world

A virtual world is an online community that takes the form of a computer-based simulated environment through which users can interact with one another and use and create objects. The term has become largely synonymous with interactive 3D virtual environments, where the users take the form of...

 moove online, which is accessible using the proprietary

Proprietary software

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 3d client Roomancer, available in both English and German.

moove is also a member of the Bundesverband Digitale Wirtschaft (BVDW) e.V.

Company timeline

• 1994 - moove is founded.
• 1997 - moove Roomancer is released. This product is awarded the Prix Ars Electronica
  Prix Ars Electronica
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  .
• 1999 onwards - moove rose 3D world is established as an Internet communications platform.
• 2000 - moove Corp. Los Angeles
  Los Ángeles
  Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
  
   branch established.
• September/October 2001 - Release of moove Roomancer 3D client.
• 2005 - Beta release of Brandworlds Tools (for Flash
  Adobe Flash
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   and Web
  World Wide Web
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  developers).
• December 2005 - Release of Brandworlds Tools