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10.09.10Gaikai Cloud Service for Games: Bringing Virtual Worlds to a Site Near You?While OnLive and Otoy are the tip-of-the tongue names when it comes to server-side rendering approaches to delivering games, Gaikai promises something else: a business model in which affiliate Web sites can host games (or virtual worlds) and earn money by doing so. Develop a Steampunk game, embed it in your Steampunk site, and make money from the users who access it. Now, I've been thinking about this because I've been thinking about Second Life in the browser, about whether Linden Lab is truly for sale, and all the rest of the speculation from the past few weeks. I set myself ...
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05.10.10Betting on the Future of 3D: OnLive, WebGL, and Google Shifting Gears from O3DStreaming 3D content and 3D in the browser are the next frontiers in the evolution of technologies that allow for immersive environments and virtual worlds. On the one hand, server-side rendering of games and virtual worlds are being touted by OnLive and Otoy as the path to ubiquity: there's no need to download a multi-Gigabyte-sized game world when you can have it streamed to your desktop. Forget loading Warcraft onto your hard drive, simply boot up your browser and start playing. Server-Side Rendering OnLive sums up the story: OnLive is launching the world's highest performance Games On Demand service, instantly delivering the latest ...
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08.22.08It It It’s Aliiiiive (evil cackle): Rendering Reality in Games and Virtual WorldsReal-time rendering of the realistic, the promise of graphics so stunningly real that you'll really....OK, well you get the idea, although the use of realism in virtual worlds and games cycles us back to that odd difficulty: when it seems really real, the imperfections make it feel fake. Make sense? Well...let's just say that the promise of the highly rendered virtual world may be just around the corner, and Blue Mars may be just a taste of things to come. But first, not even knowing where to FIND the type of graphics chip I have, I can't pass judgment on chip ...
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08.15.08OTOY In The News Again: Advanced 3D Renders and a Browser-Based Virtual WorldOn 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 browser, the technology that supposedly drove the platform is the subject of an Advertising Age piece on its use in films. Does OTOY Allow A Full Browser-Based 3D Render? OTOY is billed as an "800k web plug-in that enables cinematic quality 3D rendering in a browser with compressed content streams that load in seconds. OTOY web browser applications include next generation games, 3D virtual communities, instant messaging and social networking applets, and application and desktop ...
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