This year, and for the first time, the SLACTIONS Steering Committee has included a day devoted to Machinima in the conference program. The SLACTIONS 2012 Machinima Festival is a Machinima competition included on the SLACTIONS 2012 Research conference on virtual worlds. Conference calls are to be honest normally slightly dull, this…
To be honest we are always a little skeptical of press releases and tend not to post direct quotes as they often simply over-hype a product. As such it is with interest that we find the following: **** MOOFU, a fast-growing UK company focusing on emerging technology, emerging markets and…
We have never quite understood why Second Life is such a closed shop when it comes down to importing models – compared to systems such as Sketch Worlds, which we covered earlier this week, it has been a positively painful process to get any model in the environment. However, Sketchlife…
SketchWorlds, based on RealXtend, is unique – a virtual world with architectural and property based visualisation at the heart of the system. Of note is the ability to import direct from 3DMax and SketchUp allowing for quick and easy modelling within a virtual environment, something that is almost impossible with…
We have just come across ‘SIMMERSION‘ a company with two interesting products in development. The first is Simurban, 3D visualisation3D simulation software aimed at creating, viewing and allowing the user to interact with accurate and realistic models of any built environment. The movie below details Simurban running in realtime: Of…
Day 4 at the AAG and sitting in a session on Virtual Learning Environments and Geographic Education – its one of the best line ups of the conference so far. First up is Michael N .DeMers of New Mexico State University with a talk entitled: Using Second Life to Augment…
In the movie below CBS3 reports on Virtual Philadelphia, the first 3D virtual city to offer high resolution at street level. A specialised vehicle was used to capture fine details, such as store fronts and street signs. Users can freely walk down (or fly through) an exact replica of every…
Gary Hayes of http://www.personalizemedia.com has produced an insightful short film entitled The ‘Social Virtual’ World’s A Stage. The film takes a look at over 50 virtual world systems that currently make up the Metaverse as we know it. Its interesting to note that amongst the first person style words no…
30 Days in ActiveWorlds was a project aimed at documenting the development of a virtual environment from the beginning to end, the point where a plot of virgin land would develop into a community with a urban layout. In a sense the project was similar to an early days ‘Big…
vLES or Virtual Lower East Side is a replica of the area in New York City created by MTV. Of note is the starting point from Google Earth into the Virtual World – perhaps a glimpse of how a ‘Second Earth’ would look and operate? The movie below provides an…
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