May 31, 2007
Web3D was very fortunate to have member David Colleen of Planet 9 Studios on such a high profile panel at Where 2.0 on Tuesday. Here’s a shot of David (blue shirt, 4th from left). Check out the Where 2.0 site for a Where Wrap-up.
X3D News Archive May 2007
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May 29, 2007
LAS VEGAS, NV - May 29, 2007: The Project, LLC today announced the release of its range of Extensible 3D Avatars in the adults-only Jewel of Indra virtual world “The new Extensible Avatar takes interaction within the virtual world and with other residents of the world to a whole new level.” Said Project CEO (who prefers to be called by her in-world name, ‘badgirl’), “when using the avatar the resident can switch between up to 66 different outfits allowing them to choose clothing, or a lack thereof, that suits their mood and any activity they want to participate in. For example an avatar might start off dressed in a t-shirt and skirt, but the resident might decide to change into a ball gown, a bikini, a swimsuit or a bondage outfit.” The new avatars are exclusively for use in the Jewel of Indra virtual community, and will support over 980 gestures, some of which allow the resident to play musical instruments, fight, dance, and take part in many different sexual activities. Jewel of Indra is based on Web3D technology VRML 2.0.
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May 25, 2007
San Francisco, California - May 25, 2007
Planet 9 Studios has produced a GPS and avatar based social networking application for use in games, navigation and emergency response. RayGun is the first 3D cell phone and GPS device tracking system and it includes 70+ high-resolution, 3D models of real world locations. The RayGun client runs on laptops, hand-helds, cell phones and embedded systems. RayGun is supported by the GeoFeeder server which supports Web3D and Open Geospatial Consortium ISO open standards as well as Google Earth. Ray Gun is built on a geographic server using X3D and exports to X3D and .dae (for import into Google Earth). RayGun is currently in private beta for interested developers and customers. Planet 9 CEO, David Colleen, will be speaking about RayGun at Where 2.0 on Tuesday, May 29th in San Jose, California. “3D city simulation used to be limited to high-end flight simulators,” David Colleen notes. “These days, Google Earth and Second Life have generated considerable consumer interest and appetite for desk-top applications that use 3D interfaces depicting real world places.”
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May 08, 2007
Web3D finally got the permissions to be able to stream this content from the NPS MOVES server:
The Web3D Tech Talk Video of SIGGRAPH 2006
Pay special attention to the movie at 42:02 during Franck Kolb’s EDF presentation. That’s where Alan fell off the stage! All’s well that ends well.
Also, the Press Room Recap with Alan, Don & Rita is up, too:
Beware, though - - - it’s BIG! (620MB)
The Smaller version is also up:
SIGGRAPH Press Room Recap-Small
-Jeff W. and Rita T.
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