Yesterday (and I nearly missed it), Karl Stiefvater put up a preliminary look at the crowd-funded parametric mesh deformer. “I should specify immediately that it’s not done,” said Stiefvater, “but the heavy-lifting part of it is.”Via dwellonit.taterunino.net … [Read more...] about Qarl’s parametric mesh deformer on display, feedback sought
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CAT UDC Blog: Second Life to vAcamedia: The Future of Virtual Worlds for Distance Learning
Beginning around 2005 Colleges and Universities around the country became increasingly interested in the learning opportunities offered by the 3d Virtual World Second Life. Colleges and Universities around the country from Texas State Technical College which developed an online associate’s degree program, to Ivy’s like Harvard, flocked to Second Life to develop virtual campuses … [Read more...] about CAT UDC Blog: Second Life to vAcamedia: The Future of Virtual Worlds for Distance Learning
Invoked computing: you really can use a banana as a telephone
Alvaro Cassinelli is an assistant professor at the Ishikawa-Oku lab at the University of Tokyo. He and his partner, Alexis Zerroug, have created a multi-modal, spatial augmented reality, a system that instantaneously changes household objects into communication devices. The effect, known as "invoked computing", is a process that has enabled Cassinelli to transform a discarded … [Read more...] about Invoked computing: you really can use a banana as a telephone
Virtual Combat IED Simulation
The Raytheon team of Reston Virginia along with other technology giants involved in Virtual Combat Simulation, successfully designed a portable, fully immersive, IED training platform using commercially available, off-the-shelf components. The Virtual IED Combat Simulator provides accurate, real-time, live-Soldier simulations for training exercises. Their configuration is … [Read more...] about Virtual Combat IED Simulation
Second Life Statistics for 2011
As we reach the end of 2011, I thought it would be interesting to take a look back on some Second Life statistics for the past year. The last time I did this was almost two years ago, where I briefly analysed the Second Life concurrency statistics for 2006 to 2009. This time I’m going to give a brief overview of some Second Life stats for 2011 and see how it compares … [Read more...] about Second Life Statistics for 2011