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09.19.08Google’s Lively, Vivaty and User-Generated ContentYet another virtual room, er, virtual world (OK, fine, 3D space) is planning to allow users to import content from external applications. This time it's Google's Lively. In planning to open an API that will allow users to import models from programs including 3DS Max, Maya and Sketch Up, Google is hoping to put a little more, um, life into Lively. Google "noted that the purpose of the open API, among other things, is to increase Lively's entertainment value by bringing more interactivity to its rooms, such as games and other engagement-building units. What's more, all Google products will ultimately be ...
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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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