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June 8th, 2008
The Archives
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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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06.08.08Cracks in the Open, Source of Frustration for OpenSim?OpenSim is open source - a reverse engineer of the Second Life platform, and while the idea is to let others build on the source, there's also an expectation that there's a quid pro quo at play. That's the point of open source afterall - do what you want with it, but give something back, it's a community afterall. RealXtend, which has received a lot of play over at OS promoters like UgoTrade, may not be giving back what it takes according to Justin Clark-Casey: Unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge, the amount of code OpenSim has received from realXtend so ...
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06.08.08Portfolio: Papervision Eco InteractionOne of the most beautifully executed uses of Papervision I've run across. Beautiful art, smooth transitions between 'spaces', and subtle use of the 3D effect. By Mccann Erickson Japan. Visit site here. Note: Visit the Papervision page for aggregation of Papervision tutorials, samples and links.
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06.08.08Disney World 3DA Google Earth (GE) 3D render of Disney World has picked up a lot of coverage, a lot of it with a "Disney Goes Virtual" theme - and while Disney has definitely gone 3D, it's time to draw the line in the virtual sand for implications that it's in the same class as a virtual world. Unless you can run around with your avatar and kids in tow and wait in line with all the other travel-weary avatars it's not really virtual, it's just 3D. OK, but semantics aside, I'm of the increasing belief that when it comes to virtual worlds ...
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