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Visualization in 3D
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09.01.086 Months of 3D Flash in 10 MinutesHebiflux.com brings us a video showing the use of 3D in Flash, capping the tour off with Small Worlds, with many of the demos using Papervision to create 3D environments. a Flash-based virtual world: 6 months of 3D in flash in 10 minutes from Galdric on Vimeo.
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08.30.08The 3D Web BrowserThe Metaverse is meant to be everywhere one day - augmenting reality, mirroring it, a separate space, the 3D Web wherever you go. But we're already much of the way there. With RocketOn you can take your avatar with you, mosh hopping on top of youTube videos. Same idea with Weblin, about which I previously posted. Continue Reading...
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08.26.08A Mesh of Chips: Rendering Virtual Worlds and Saying Goodbye to the Second Life Prim?I've been gorging on chips lately, and it feels like the time I went to the UK and discovered that the 'crisp' can be a meal - where I'm from you have sour cream and onion and BBQ and a few others, but over in England they pack a feast into your typical bag of crisps - think roasted chicken flavour, think beef with horseradish, or for all I know think curried goat with a side of rice and peas. So when I got a taste of AMD's new Radeon card, it was like getting a taste of a bigger buffet ...
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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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08.11.08Augmented Virtual Reality: My New Home TheatreOK gadget freaks, the home theatre of the future has arrived, and instead of a flat screen high definition television with surround sound, a popcorn maker in the back corner, custom-fitted Laz-E-Boys and a bar fridge beside each chair I give you forty projection systems, two wearable VR-style systems, and a control room that will track the movements of multiple users. According to Wired, the Augmented Reality Lab at Mawson something or other in Australia is large enough to rez 'artifacts' (sic) like cars. According to Wired: An example that illustrates the usefulness of this lab is the idea that a company will ...
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08.08.08Blue Mars Virtual World: Forget User-Generated ContentConcept artist and futurist Syd Mead is bringing his vision to the forthcoming Blue Mars virtual world, promising a city in which "visitors...will experience the future of entertainment, social networking, commerce and education. Retail shopping centers, entertainment venues, museums and more will give visionary entrepreneurs the best commercial opportunities of the 22nd century." Perhaps alone among the major virtual world developments, Blue Mars is tacking away from small worlds, browser-based, 2.5D and all the other answers to the 'download problem'. In fact, they've admitted that their virtual world platform is aimed at computer specs several years in the future rather than ...
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06.08.08Virtual Earth Arising: Google, Microsoft and, um, SwedenThe announcement that Google Earth would be moving to a browser seemed to elicit collective silence from the virtual world industry - while last September, everyone was foaming with anticipation about Google secretly planning a Virtual Google that would put places like Second Life to rest. Meanwhile, over at Microsoft, moves to 'virtualize' through a serious, um, serious gaming initiative, and their partnerships with 3DVIA, their purchase of Caligari, and the previews of Photosynth put them in the middle of the battle for 3D visualization and by extension virtual worlds. Caligari Platform Owned by Google: The move by Google to open up its ...
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06.06.08Google Earth Unbound - Is THIS Virtual Earth?Google Earth (GE) recently announced that it would make a plug-in to allow GE to run in a browser (thus far, for Windows only). GE expects to see its mashups on the Web, in its words, "with many more applications than ever before." GE is careful to note that the entire application is not being converted into a browser, but only that the plug-in will run, which will enable developers to create applications and enable UI features. While the plug-in will not have all the features of the full GE client, it is still a favourable development for developers who can ...
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05.28.08Papervision Tag Galaxy - Mapping Meaning in 3DForgotten in the debate about avatars and identity is the idea of 3D space as an intuitive way to conceptualize information. Papervision is increasingly being used to organize concepts, as seen in the now famous White Void application - sure, it's just a spinny looking file folder system, but there's something that just feels right about it - concepts nested in concepts, 3D space, hierarchy of data. Others are pushing the limits as well. Tag Galaxy takes tags from Flickr and maps them as a galaxy of terms. Each planet is a tag - and if you click each planet it ...
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