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08.12.08Realistically Rendered 3D World Amazing and a MysteryThe following video was picked up at TechCrunch and has generated as much mystery as awe. The video was lifted from a company called LivePlace which is nothing more than a text placeholder site promising a "virtually live" experience. And judging by the video, it may well be. What's astonishing about the video is the claim that it renders in real time and runs on OTOY, a 3D graphics engine that renders using "cloud computing" (otherwise known as really fancy servers). The promise of OTOY is that not only can 3D spaces be realistically rendered, in real time, but that ...
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05.21.08Next Time Your Group Gets Spammed, Fine them $200MThere's nothing more irritating than a spam-and-run hit on an open group, usually advertising the "Best skins in SL" or the "Hottest Club Now Open" or other nonsense. Well, the law is on the side of anti-spam as evidenced by the ruling against spam kings who clogged up mySpace with e-mails to members, usually leading to Web sites selling porn, ring tones, or other useless junk. The $230,000,000 award to mySpace puts teeth into the anti-spam law. (And yeah, that's 230 with another 6 zeros behind it). Which isn't to say that great skins are useless junk. And I'm more likely ...
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