Sony PS3 Virtual World
OK I’m pulling this straight from 3pointD, but this could be a biggee. Sony showed this video at the Game Developers Conference, a PS3 based vitual world using the latest physics and graphics engines....
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More virtual worlds tech for Google ?
Google recently acquired a company called Neven Vision whos description on Googles blog is as follows Neven Vision comes to Google with deep technology and expertise around automatically extracting...
View ArticleReal World to Virtual World device communications
The ever inventive and productive Dave CJ from our emerging tech department at work has been hooking up more of his demonstration lab to SecondLife. Tracking the state of everyday objects and...
View ArticleWindLight atmospheric rendering in SL
ooo check out the pretty sunsets coming our way soon in Second Life… The interesting part is that Linden purchased Windmark, they must be feeling a bit more comfortable of late financially which is a...
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Open source avatar creation with MakeHuman
Just stumbled across this in the sldev mailing list (ooh how retro ) from Argent Stonecutter, a cool looking open source avatar creation project called MakeHuman definitely looks worth following. The...
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Free video streaming into Second Life
Well I haven’t done any machinima posts of late, but I can feel a few in the offing having just completed one concept video for a client and with the promise of a few more lurking not too far in the...
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11 Second Life Machinima tips
If you’re aiming for a more professionally produced machinima piece then the following tips are for you, in no particular order… Hardware Use a beefy desktop if possible. You need a decent graphics...
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Second Life hidden video secrets
There is a very little known feature of Second Life to do with showing video in world, this is the ability to show different videos to individual avatars on the same land parcel. I’ve mentioned this to...
View ArticleThoughts on OpenSim, interview on UgoTrade
Tish Shute very kindly asked me to do an interview for her excellent blog over on Ugotrade. In the interview I discuss where OpenSim fits in with the rest of the Web and particularly how some of the...
View ArticleXML Parsing in OpenSim: Example – reading RSS feeds
In OpenSim you’re not just restricted to using LSL for scripting, it’s also possible to use c#. This opens up the possiblilities for far more powerful scripts that can access c# in built libraries. For...
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