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and i hope the two of also have a lifetime :winkwink: :winkwink: :winkwink: :winkwink:

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and i hope the two of you also have a lifetime :winkwink: :winkwink: :winkwink: :winkwink:

here you go:
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You got a hot girlfriend :)

13. What did you do for Fox interactive?

I was working in the video game industry before jumping into adult in 1998. Started programming video games when I was still at school, ended up managing the game Planet of the Apes for Fox Interactive. Crew of 50 people, two years project, and sorry to say, game was not even good.
Good part is it made ma travel a lot between Paris and LA, I started to know that city better and somehow to like it.
I've always felt that I jumped in the video games industry a year or two too late. It always made me feel being after the wave, not riding it. I guess it pushed me (us, with Herve) to do the big jump and leave confortable positions in that industry for new chalanges on the Net.

How many people did u kill this year? hehe
Thanks for the kind words and see u in Vegas :)

Rex is awesome
and always packing and sharing his fine, fine cigars!

thanks Rex!

14. How old were you when you started programing? What computer was it? What early computers have you owned?

I started programing at 14 when my uncle offered my a Sinclair ZX81. Interesting to wonder what would I have done without that xmas present at that time... So I started programing right away, very few games were available at that time... Learnt Basic, then assembly langage, then Pascal and C. Owned a Texas TI994A, an Apple II, then an Atari ST and an Amiga before geting my first PC.

I can Attest to that:thumbsup :thumbsup

15. How many virtuagirls have you shot loads on in your living room?

None. I don't mix my personal life with production at all.

In the studio, that's a different storyd, we encourage the girls do be wild. We had over 320 girls so far and about 100 guys. Producing a new girl/guy takes about a week from shooting to publication. That's a lot of exclusive content that we use both for VirtuaGirl and our mobile stuff.

16. Talk about Virtuagirl and Herve

As I explained before, we were both working in the videogame industry before VirtuaGirl. We get bored and decided to ride the Internet wave. We had a friend at that time that started a small porn website and he was making money with it. Not loads, but enough to show that clients where there and it was possible to bill them. First idea was to do a free dancing girl that we would use to advertise for adult paysites. After filming the first girl and watching her dancing / striping on our screen, it was obvious that we could sell it as a stand alone product. That's when the third guy, who had an adult website decided to bail and leave us alone with the project (talk about bad decisions...). So we released the product with one girl, she was in 63 colors only (32 for the skin and hairs, 31 for the swimsuit), size was 1.4Mb (to fit on a floppy disk). At that time there was no real video on the net, best you could get was a stamp sized bunch of moving pixels if u had a fast PC. So it was really impressive and we did our first sale a few hours after puting the thing online, no idea where the people where coming from as we were buying no traffic. We quickly got reviews and article and our number of visitors rapidly grew as well as our sales. Did I mention we were processing with iBill at that time? lol. We had to change servers twice the first month as we started buying some advertising. One day the banners we were buying on TheHun were down so Patrick offered to comensate by publishing a galley for us. We managed to gather enough still images to do a gallery and he posted it, servers crawled and we did over 150 sales with that one post :) GOOD old days! We started to produce new girls and to buy prepaid listings on all major TGPs. We grew up very fast from there, we were doing 20 to 30% more each month, sky was the limit. Our peak was I believe around the end of 2001, processing over $1M a month. Not too bad for a little dancing girl :) Then we reached a plateau and went down slowly, (with a peak at each new product release) to $400k a month in 2003 which we are still doing.

I know most programs don't show their numbers, I personaly don't care, our conversion and retention are available in real time on our site ( http://www2.totemcash.com/free/figures.php ) and we are a French company, our numbers are public. I never wanted to enter the PPS game and have to shave to pay $50 per signup, so my only other option is to be very honest and show all my numbers. Might loose affiliates looking for quick buck, but I'm more interested by the ones thinking long term.

What else? mmm, we're now working on VirtuaGirl HD, the next version of VirtuaGirl. We're bringing HD (girls are up to 1000 pixels tall), automatic downloads to the user's desktop, interactivity with the girls and are building a community of people collecting the girls (to use them as a vector of distribution). Have no doubts I'll post more before the release :)

Any other question on the VirtuaGirl story or numbers?

17. What was it like to ride the concord?

Big. That was something. I took it to go to New York in 2002 right before they terminated it. I had heard from that plane all my youth, couldn't let it go without riding it once. I left home a wenesday morning, went to the airport, they had the lounge and registration at the gate itself, we boarded and took off on time (got to mention it coz that was the only time I saw Air France on time, lol). That thig did a lot of noise, A LOT. Acceleration was not terrific, but the angle it takes at take off makes u feel more like in a rocket than in an airplane. Ground is behind your shoulder, not on your side. Then u enter the sky, so hi it's black at the top, so hi that you can see the curve of earth (goose bumps talking about it). Felt nothing at Mach 1 nor Mach 2, there is a display inside the cabin that gives u the speed. We went up to Mach 2.4 (got my certificate for it, lol). Food / Wine / Service was first class and we arrived in JFK three hours and half after. At home, kids were not even back from school.
Sooo glad I did it :) Ok, I flew back coach, end rows, on a smelly old 747, but I still had stars in my eyes.

http://toshare.toteme.com/ambush/sIMG_6024.jpg

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She's way more than just that, but thank you :)

Merci Vid!

Great interview Rex :)
WG

I can see why you kicked Derek now, hehe. Lucky bastard :)
WG

fucking GIRLS. all of them. i like that room. and you make it sound much worse than it is... there is nothing wrong with it. it a nice quite little room. easy to sleep in. dirt is good for the soul.

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Aaaaaah, thank you Sam.... I will let Melissa know you said so. The question I have is will we be seeing you both here before we see you there?

Did you get that? :-)

Or did you mean Rex and me? :-)

phoenix forum baby!!
 

but we could always ask melissa her opinion phoenix vs. paris hehe :1orglaugh

haha and yes i did mean you and rex! i could never compete with that private boys club thing!!

sounds compelling.

:pimp :pimp

I expect that was an amazing experience. The only thing to top it would have been to sky dive from it...

nice interview Richard.

I think we both know that answer hahaha

Miss Sammy, you are being modest.... we all know that you can compete with the big dogs and never be left on the porch!!!

Dont they make a cute couple :Graucho

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where would we be without JFK and his magic with photography... outstanding... we all know Rex is really a blonde!

:thumbsup :thumbsup :thumbsup

Well Douglas,you finally let the cat out of the bag:1orglaugh

Rex, I remember you were telling me about it... do you remember what show this was? This show only happened once and that's it. ;)

awesome interview Rex!!! It's too bad we missed you in Paris! I'll be back in May for Cannes Film festival so we have a date!!! :)

My favourite memory of you is Amsterdam last year and the disco taxi!!! ROFL!!

now douglas, that was our secret shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh :winkwink: :winkwink: :winkwink: :winkwink: :winkwink: :winkwink: cant wait to see ya!

YES! Good ambush!
Rex is TOP NOTCH!

Vive la France hahahahaha

Btw my first computer was a Sinclair ZX81 as well! Good shit!

18. What kind of car(s) do you own? Moterbikes? Helicopters? pics

I own a 911 and a 900 CBR RR Fireblade. Think I like speed?
Helicopters none, don't fly anymore and unless u want to be able to park it in your garden and fly a lot with it, there is no real point owning yours.

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forgot the CGR pic at the office....

Thank you Marie, u coming to SnowGathering? U'll get all details first hand!

Maybe he have been lucky I saw that pic after coming back home... lol just kd, love ya Derek :)

Doug, it's always a please to see you and share some fine cubans with you. Seems we're going bigger this year in Vegas, right? :)

Baby you're ALWAYS invited to our boys club things :)