The movie above illustrates a model of Rome running in realtime and raytraced. The model is running on running on the IBM QS21 Cell/B.E. Blades using iRT ray tracer with display output via a Playstation 3.
Anyone who knows how slow raytracing can be out of the standard 3D packages should be pretty impressed by this…
Have you ever wanted to communicate with your friends in the first life while you’re living your Second Life (no neither have we)? BT has created AvaTalk that allows you to easily communicate with friends and family all over the world without leaving your Second Life.
BT AvaTalk is a trial service that allows user’s of Second Life to connect a chosen real phone and another real phone free of charge. It also includes the ability to send free SMS to mobiles around the world from an Avatar while in Second Life.
The system can be used in two ways, either from BT AvaTalk Phone Boxes that you can find at specific locations or via BT AvaTalk Head Up Display that you can be attached to your Avatar
The movie below provides full details into a service that we cant quite understand – sure the main pull is that its free, but take away the free aspect and why would you ever want to call someone in the ‘real world’ from Second Life rather than just use a ‘real’ phone on your desk or a service such as Skype?
We tend to get a bit of flack at times for using Second Life in our research, but we fully believe that there is a strong argument for these collaborative environments in the realm of geographic and architectural visualisation. However, we still cant see why we would want to pick up the phone in Second Life to ring someone, as we obviously are not actually in the environment.
Perhaps we are missing something on this one…
See http://www.btavatalk.com/about.htm for more info.
Have you ever wanted to communicate with your friends in the first life while you’re living your Second Life (no neither have we)? BT has created AvaTalk that allows you to easily communicate with friends and family all over the world without leaving your Second Life.
BT AvaTalk is a trial service that allows user’s of Second Life to connect a chosen real phone and another real phone free of charge. It also includes the ability to send free SMS to mobiles around the world from an Avatar while in Second Life.
The system can be used in two ways, either from BT AvaTalk Phone Boxes that you can find at specific locations or via BT AvaTalk Head Up Display that you can be attached to your Avatar
The movie below provides full details into a service that we cant quite understand – sure the main pull is that its free, but take away the free aspect and why would you ever want to call someone in the ‘real world’ from Second Life rather than just use a ‘real’ phone on your desk or a service such as Skype?
We tend to get a bit of flack at times for using Second Life in our research, but we fully believe that there is a strong argument for these collaborative environments in the realm of geographic and architectural visualisation. However, we still cant see why we would want to pick up the phone in Second Life to ring someone, as we obviously are not actually in the environment.
Perhaps we are missing something on this one…
See http://www.btavatalk.com/about.htm for more info.
Vue by E-on is a range of software for creating, animating and rendering natural 3D environments.
We have always liked Vue for its ease of use and detailed output, so we are definitely looking forward to Vue 7 which is due later this year, the movie below provides and insight into its capabilities, especially for landscape visualisation:
See http://www.e-onsoftware.com/ for full details on Vue, it is also worth checking out OZone 3.0 E-on’s plugin for the main 3D packages aimed at creating realistic atmospheres.