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Multiverse Open Beta Announced
This should be good news for lots of would-be virtual world developers. From the Multiverse developer forum (Link):
The Multiverse Open Beta platform release is now available. Register with the Multiverse Developer Program, and you will be able to access the downloads here:
I’ve been stopping in to the Multiverse forums on occasion lately hoping to catch [...]
Real World Weather 3D Visualization Inside Second Life
Just a quick note to point you to a post on the Second Life Insider blog (Link) discussing the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s project inside the Second Life virtual space. Very cool. My father once worked for the NOAA – something to do with computers and satellite images – so I look forward to [...]
Prims Out
Back in 2002 when I left corporate life to become my own boss, hoping to move into a combination of real and virtual design (even though something like Second Life hadn’t even yet popped up on the radar), I didn’t realize that metaversal consulting would so completely occupy my time as it does now; finding [...]
Fab@Home and 3D Catalogues
I don’t recall if I’d previously read about this or not, but I’d not seen it: the Fab@Home additive-process, rapid prototyping device (Link), here shown creating a watch strap. It’s a nice resource site with plenty of information and apparently plenty more to come. I’ve not done much more than skim through the site [...]
Front By Front
Okay, I’ll admit to not seeing a practical use for this at the moment; seems like this is the beginning of a whole new section in the dictionary beneath “shaky-cam” (“shaky-furniture”, “shaky-housewares”, “shaky-surgical tools”, etc). One thing for sure though: it beautifully illustrates the rapidly dissolving barrier between thought and physical thing. Definitely worth watching.
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Remix or Theft?
See the above image? That’s from Alienware’s website (Link) in which it is an embedded background. Alienware is owned by Dell Computer, a very big corporation. So big that every executive officer currently listed on the Yahoo Finance page makes a seven-figure salary. See the image below?
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The Big Shift Is Coming *Update*
I couldn’t have timed this bit of news any better, coming as it does on the heels of the Nissan virtual vehicle dispenser in Second Life: the Mass Customization blog brings word (Link) of what is possibly the first working prototype for a shoe created using one of the technologies most often associated with rapid [...]
Nissan Enters Second Life
As expected (only not quite so soon) comes word from Electric Sheeper Giff Constable of Nissan’s entry into Second Life (Link). I’m liking the vehicle dispenser enough to give me a reason to post about this – very Smart car-like (and I’m a fan of the Smart if you recall – reLink). It’s also more [...]