April 12th, 2009 by Caleb Booker
This week’s Big Question: Why has Google stopped short of taking 3D content into true interactivity? (ie: virtual worlds) (Answer in the comments!) Happy chocolate bunny day everybody. Important links: Archive page of past weeks of Business in Virtual Worlds News Connect with me on Twitter, LinkedIn, Blip.fm, or in Second Life as Onder [...]
February 26th, 2009 by Caleb Booker
Many of my favorites combine into one moment here: MellaniuM, Skribe Productions, and Nortel’s web.alive. Visit The Apartment here. It’s very light on the system resources but takes a few minutes to download the assets. We’re talking about a full-sized apartment building translated directly from CAD in full detail. I was extremely impressed with the [...]
February 11th, 2009 by Caleb Booker
I’ve always been a fan of the Miro project, ever since the early days when they called it “Democracy Player”. Originally just a neat way to directly share large videos without worrying about weird YouTube compression (or censorship!), it’s grown into a supercharged video viewing tool with dozens of features: Play almost anything Resume a [...]