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06.23.10Mesh In, Wisdom Out: How Second Life May Inform the Next Generation of 3D Content[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="480" caption="The terror of mesh?"][/caption] Concerns over a wave of content creators arriving in virtual worlds with a bag of mesh objects created in programs like the (free) Blender or the (incredibly expensive) Maya seems to cause jitters amongst the current content creators who have created businesses within Second Life. We discussed this a bit on today's Metanomics (video and transcript will be up tomorrow) and I concluded by saying that while the ability to IMPORT objects (including content that exists elsewhere) might seem like the main shift in dynamic, I actually think it's what Second Life will EXPORT ...
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06.22.10Mesh Imports in Second Life ImminentTomorrow, I'll be hosting a discussion of 3D content development during a Metanomics Master Class, and with any luck Linden Lab will do what it seems to do with some regularity: make a big announcement right before the show. (They don't do this intentionally, it just seems to happen that way). In this case, rumors are that the Lab is about to lift the NDA on the work to-date on mesh imports. In fact, they sort of lifted the NDA already, only to clamp it down again after something like 15 minutes. Someone at a senior level decided they weren't ...
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