from what I've seen of atmosphere, its merely a gimmick at the moment. On a DSL connection it is WAY too slow, and I'd rather look at a series of high res photographs rather than the disgustingly primitive polygons of atmosphere. As for building an office or home with atmosphere, anyone would be much better off using infini-d, never mind a higher end program like studio max. As far as I know, the atmosphere software itself is still freeare, so ya'll might wanna give it a shot. I wasn't impressed though, but maybe that's just me. It's prety neat, but that's about it.