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The Archives
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09.12.09Shanghai’s 2010 Expo : Bringing Virtual Environments to the WorldThe World Expo in Shanghai next year will include a 3D virtual world that will act as both a gateway and a companion experience to the physical event. The world is being built in partnership with Dassault Systems and 3DVIA (which also partnered to create Microsoft's Virtual Earth-3DVIA) and is based on Virtools. According to the Dassault press release: “World Expo Shanghai Online is a revolutionary creation. It is not a simple copy of the physical Expo, but an introductory channel, extension and supplement to the Expo. Through the 3D lifelike experience technology, we are able to comprehensively present World Expo,” ...
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09.12.09Second Life and 3D Models: A Merger in the Wings?Is Linden Lab positioned to merge with, buy out, or partner with 3D model communities? While weekends are for idle speculation and this is based on nothing other than a hunch, I can't help thinking that Linden Lab would place a new competitive stake in the sand if they were to do one of the above. With Tom Hale's announcement that Linden Lab will allow mesh imports (footnoted with the helpful comment of, well, "maybe") it strikes me that if they do so they'll be missing out on a significant chunk of possible revenue as residents scurry to 3D warehouses to ...
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05.17.08AutoDesk Finalizes Purchase of Game AI EngineOn the heels of AutoDesk's
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05.14.08Autodesk, MegaPrims, and the 3D Pipeline Puzzles ContinueSecond Life set out on its own, carving a path outside of the usual frontiers of game development and virtual reality headsets and imagined a virtual world where the tools for building 3D objects were accessible to all. Remember, this was back in the day before Google Sketch-Up, before Content Paradise and 3Daz and Poser....or at least the days before anyone could download them and order up some books from Amazon or watch tutorials on youTube. And the power of those tools created what Hamlet Au called a Be Bop reality. Meanwhile, over in the other 3D silos games were still big ...
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