Comments on: Realistically Rendered 3D World Amazing and a Mystery http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/08/12/realistically-rendered-3d-world-amazing-and-a-mystery/ Virtual worlds and creativity, business, collaboration, and identity. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:54:17 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Eerily Realistically Rendered 3D World. Watch this! « Memories Of The Future http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/08/12/realistically-rendered-3d-world-amazing-and-a-mystery/comment-page-1/#comment-11669 Eerily Realistically Rendered 3D World. Watch this! « Memories Of The Future Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:42:29 +0000 http://dusanwriter.com/?p=802#comment-11669 [...] lightning and embedding of all ther media like pics and movies etc. just with a click on the wall. Dusan Writer asked: What IS [...] [...] lightning and embedding of all ther media like pics and movies etc. just with a click on the wall. Dusan Writer asked: What IS [...]

]]> By: Dusan Writer’s Metaverse » OTOY In The News Again: Advanced 3D Renders and a Browser-Based Virtual World http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/08/12/realistically-rendered-3d-world-amazing-and-a-mystery/comment-page-1/#comment-10959 Dusan Writer’s Metaverse » OTOY In The News Again: Advanced 3D Renders and a Browser-Based Virtual World Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:18:58 +0000 http://dusanwriter.com/?p=802#comment-10959 [...] the heels of the buzz over a snippet of video that was said to show a highly detailed 3D world, fully rendered and accessible through your [...] [...] the heels of the buzz over a snippet of video that was said to show a highly detailed 3D world, fully rendered and accessible through your [...]

]]> By: Dusan http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/08/12/realistically-rendered-3d-world-amazing-and-a-mystery/comment-page-1/#comment-10511 Dusan Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:07:28 +0000 http://dusanwriter.com/?p=802#comment-10511 Totally agree Digado - just sooo tantalizing. :) I've been keeping an eye on OTOY though, at the very least it holds promise, especially if their version 2 promises hold true. Totally agree Digado – just sooo tantalizing. :) I’ve been keeping an eye on OTOY though, at the very least it holds promise, especially if their version 2 promises hold true.

]]> By: Digado | Mapping the Metaverse http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/08/12/realistically-rendered-3d-world-amazing-and-a-mystery/comment-page-1/#comment-10506 Digado | Mapping the Metaverse Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:51:21 +0000 http://dusanwriter.com/?p=802#comment-10506 PS my best guess is it was the 'pitch video' to win over major investors such as Greenspan to look into developing a high end virtual world. It would account for the narrative making the promises 'as yet to be developed' - 'user generated content' with a shot that's obviously not user generated content at all (its obviously part of the model in style and composition) and the use of material they didn't develop. PS my best guess is it was the ‘pitch video’ to win over major investors such as Greenspan to look into developing a high end virtual world. It would account for the narrative making the promises ‘as yet to be developed’ – ‘user generated content’ with a shot that’s obviously not user generated content at all (its obviously part of the model in style and composition) and the use of material they didn’t develop.

]]> By: Digado | Mapping the Metaverse http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/08/12/realistically-rendered-3d-world-amazing-and-a-mystery/comment-page-1/#comment-10505 Digado | Mapping the Metaverse Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:47:23 +0000 http://dusanwriter.com/?p=802#comment-10505 I talked it over with some 3D pro's and the promises made in the narrative are 99% certainly impossible. What you are looking at, can only be done real time by raytracing, a highly experimental technique currently in development by IBM and Intel for off-line environments. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKqZKXwop5E The 'unlimited light bounce' would create many, many megabites (and depending on the environment even gigabites) of data and the cloudcomputing is a nice story, but doesn't make up for the massive amounts of data that still need to go back and forth through internet connections. also notice the quality of the OTOY visuals - looks like any standard graphics engine, certainly not the kind of visualization as displayed in the movie. And as techcrunch comments note, the first minutes have been stolen from a portfolio movie CITY - it has been made 4 years ago and definitely isn't 'real time'. Still its nice to see what could happen probably within the next 5 to 6 years - but the best indication of high end virtual worlds today is still HOME and Blue Mars I talked it over with some 3D pro’s and the promises made in the narrative are 99% certainly impossible. What you are looking at, can only be done real time by raytracing, a highly experimental technique currently in development by IBM and Intel for off-line environments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKqZKXwop5E

The ‘unlimited light bounce’ would create many, many megabites (and depending on the environment even gigabites) of data and the cloudcomputing is a nice story, but doesn’t make up for the massive amounts of data that still need to go back and forth through internet connections.

also notice the quality of the OTOY visuals – looks like any standard graphics engine, certainly not the kind of visualization as displayed in the movie.

And as techcrunch comments note, the first minutes have been stolen from a portfolio movie CITY – it has been made 4 years ago and definitely isn’t ‘real time’.

Still its nice to see what could happen probably within the next 5 to 6 years – but the best indication of high end virtual worlds today is still HOME and Blue Mars

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