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                                                                     EXHIBIT 5.1


                        [LETTERHEAD OF LATHAM & WATKINS]

                                January 20, 2000


InterVU Inc.
6815 Flanders Drive
San Diego, California  92121

               Re:    Form S-8 Registration Statement;
                      1,000,000 Shares of Common Stock

Ladies and Gentlemen:

               In connection with the registration by InterVU Inc., a Delaware
corporation (the "Company"), of 1,000,000 shares of common stock, par value
$.001 per share (the "Shares"), of the Company to be issued pursuant to The 1998
Stock Option Plan of InterVU Inc. (the "1998 Plan") under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended (the "Act"), on a Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed with
the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 20, 2000 (as amended from time
to time, the "Registration Statement"), you have requested our opinion with
respect to the matters set forth below.

               In our capacity as your counsel in connection with such
registration, we are familiar with the proceedings taken and proposed to be
taken by the Company in connection with the authorization, issuance and sale of
the Shares. In addition, we have made such legal and factual examinations and
inquiries, including an examination of originals or copies certified or
otherwise identified to our satisfaction of such documents, corporate records
and instruments, as we have deemed necessary or appropriate for purposes of this
opinion.

               In our examination, we have assumed the genuineness of all
signatures, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, and
the conformity to authentic original documents of all documents submitted to us
as copies.

               We are opining herein as to the effect on the subject transaction
only of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, and we express no
opinion with respect to the applicability thereto, or the effect thereon, of the
laws of any other jurisdiction or any other laws, or as to any matters of
municipal law or the laws of any other local agencies within the state.

               Subject to the foregoing, it is our opinion that as of the date
hereof the Shares have been duly authorized, and, upon the issuance of and
payment for the Shares in accordance with the terms set forth in the 1998 Plan,
the Shares will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.



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InterVU Inc.
January 20, 2000
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               We consent to your filing this opinion as an exhibit to the
Registration Statement.


                                            Very truly yours,


                                            /s/   LATHAM & WATKINS