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All the Second Life members owning an iPhone and/or an iPad can now easily bring a bit of their virtual life on the cloud by purchasing Metaverse Wallpapers from iTunes.
Metaverse Wallpapers is the mobile app built by Koinup for iPhone, iPod touch…
Smith Micro is giving away Poser 8 or Poser Pro 2010 in weekly contests.
Each week will have a different theme, like portraits, and the winner will receive a copy of Poser 8 or Poser Pro 2010.
Each week you can submit an image based on that…
You have few days left (through 08/31/2010) to get Bryce 7 Pro at DAZ with 45%Off. This means $55 or $39 if you are a member of DAZ Platinum Club.
http://www.daz3d.com/i/3d-models/-/bryce-7-pro?item=11034&_m=d&trid=803766423
New features in…
I made this product with my wife (Emma Alvarez) for Renderosity: “Metal Generation”.
Turn your characters’ skin into metal!!!
To get it, go here: Metal Generation
The package for Poser and DAZ studio has these features:
- Metal…
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I’m in the belief that this economical crisis is reaching an end soon, but none of our countries will have a fast recovery. In some, like mine I fear, there will never be good times again, at least until someone makes deep changes to the…
Mirye Software announces the availability of the Shade X 2010 Early Access Program for users of Shade 10 or higher, that will be able to access to pre-release versions of Shade X 2010, as well as to Shade Unplugged.
This way they won’t have to wait…
Darwin Dimensions, makers of Evolver™, the world’s first web application that enables users to create custom high-quality 3D characters, today announced an introductory promotion to the professional 3D community. From August 10 through August 17, 2010,…
As of today, all those not lucky enough to live in Berlin can visit 4 new sights at the click of a mouse in the Virtual Berlin of 3D online world Twinity. Together with partner Berlin Tourismus Marketing, Twinity presents the Berlin Wall Memorial and the…
As of today, all those not lucky enough to live in Berlin can visit 4 new sights at the click of a mouse in the Virtual Berlin of 3D online world Twinity. Together with partner Berlin Tourismus Marketing, Twinity presents the Berlin Wall Memorial and the…
I made this product with my wife (Emma Alvarez emmaalvarez) for Renderosity “Beach Scenes Creator”. I made the 3D modeling and she made the textures, and poses.
It’s a really fun and useful product, that allows to create countless beach scenes. I…
Poser Pro 2010 is the last generation of Poser. In the past, Poser, the tool for rendering and animation, was divided into 2 branches. Poser Pro is the branch developed by Smith Micro, the owners of Content Paradise.
Poser Pro 2010 is the new,…
Poser Pro 2010 is the last generation of Poser. In the past, Poser, the tool for rendering and animation, was divided into 2 branches. Poser Pro is the branch developed by Smith Micro, the owners of Content Paradise.
Poser Pro 2010 is the new,…
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Ace Of The Skies
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In the last times I am quite sceptic about what kind of things are virtual worlds useful for. But there are some applications that make them useful for example for things like telepresence, and virtual meetings at enterprise level, or for e-learning….
In the last times I am quite sceptic about what kind of things are virtual worlds useful for. But there are some applications that make them useful for example for things like telepresence, and virtual meetings at enterprise level, or for e-learning….
Acropora is a procedural voxel modeller that simplifies the generation of complex noise-perturbed meshes.
This means that you import your mesh and manipulate it using the tools it provides, that act on it producing deformations and…
Acropora is a procedural voxel modeller that simplifies the generation of complex noise-perturbed meshes.
This means that you import your mesh and manipulate it using the tools it provides, that act on it producing deformations and…
The creator of Xplorer2, a fantastic file explorer with double panel and lots of customizing options, has developed a way to find illegal copies of your files in file sharing networks.
The usual process to eliminate pirate copies of your software is…
The creator of Xplorer2, a fantastic file explorer with double panel and lots of customizing options, has developed a way to find illegal copies of your files in file sharing networks.
The usual process to eliminate pirate copies of your software is…
Berlin, 29 July 2010 – Twinity, the mirror world with real people and real cities just keeps growing and announces the opening of its first American city today: Virtual Miami.
Virtual Miami features a realistic true-to-scale 3D replica of Miami…
Berlin, 29 July 2010 – Twinity, the mirror world with real people and real cities just keeps growing and announces the opening of its first American city today: Virtual Miami.
Virtual Miami features a realistic true-to-scale 3D replica of Miami…
Gina Miller is a 3D artist that has created a very innovative concept: a graphic novel made entirely with 3D.
"Lazarus" is a tale of nanotechnology, immortality and one man’s quest to discover the truth, a tale of the talented 3D artist Gina…
Gina Miller is a 3D artist that has created a very innovative concept: a graphic novel made entirely with 3D.
"Lazarus" is a tale of nanotechnology, immortality and one man’s quest to discover the truth, a tale of the talented 3D artist Gina…
Russ Kinter has launched what is called the New Deep MatrixIP9 Multi-user System, a new multi-user server and client for VRML.
Deep MatrixIP9 is an open-source multi-user client/server system for vrml/x3d formats and currently works specifically for…
Semantic Copyright is a project to protect the author’s work from abuse (let it be copyright or not), and also provide instant information for those who want to know the author and terms of use of anything on the Internet.
The platform Semantic…
Semantic Copyright is a project to protect the author’s work from abuse (let it be copyright or not), and also provide instant information for those who want to know the author and terms of use of anything on the Internet.
The platform Semantic…
On June 22, pop artist Robyn launched a 3D video using no cameras, written entirely in code, with much of the content fed by fans via a Twitter feed. Robyn has premiered her new web video for "Don’t Fucking Tell Me What to Do" on Tuesday, June…
On June 22, pop artist Robyn launched a 3D video using no cameras, written entirely in code, with much of the content fed by fans via a Twitter feed. Robyn has premiered her new web video for "Don’t Fucking Tell Me What to Do" on Tuesday, June…
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Ace Of The Skies …
EarthSculptor is a realtime terrain editor for Windows, specially conceived for rapid development of 3D landscapes for visualization, multimedia and game development. It has a free and a premium version.
Some Features: Fast 3D hardware…EarthSculptor is a realtime terrain editor for Windows, specially conceived for rapid development of 3D landscapes for visualization, multimedia and game development. It has a free and a premium version.
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Get to the Renderosity MarketPlace before July 12th (this Monday, so go NOW!) and receive 15% off of your purchase of $20 or more. Ace Of The Skies …
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In the last times, in some countries, there is much social pressure, many times coming from public institutions and governments, other times from private institutions, to license everything people create under a CC license.
This is sometimes good, and…
In the last times, in some countries, there is much social pressure, many times coming from public institutions and governments, other times from private institutions, to license everything people create under a CC license.
This is sometimes good, and…
Anime Studio is a software to create animated cartoons, that shares some features with posing and rendering packages as Poser or DAZ Studio, but applied to 2D and cartoons.
In Anime Studio you can start drawing your art directly, or scan or…
Anime Studio is a software to create animated cartoons, that shares some features with posing and rendering packages as Poser or DAZ Studio, but applied to 2D and cartoons.
In Anime Studio you can start drawing your art directly, or scan or…
While researching trying to find a good software to recommend for X3D on the web, I came to the sad conclusion that most of the solutions, that initially were available, are in fact unavailable or have stopped their development.
We have come to the…
While researching trying to find a good software to recommend for X3D on the web, I came to the sad conclusion that most of the solutions, that initially were available, are in fact unavailable or have stopped their development.
We have come to the…
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Get to the Renderosity MarketPlace before July 6th (this Tuesday, so go NOW!) and receive 10% off of your purchase of $15 or more.
Remember that Ace…
Apply coupon code 070310B10P15 to your order at the time of checkout for instant savings!!!
Get to the Renderosity MarketPlace before July 6th (this Tuesday, so go NOW!) and receive 10% off of your purchase of $15 or more.
Remember that Ace…
Koinup is searching for your best wallpapers depicting Second Life’s cityscapes and urban environments to be included in the application for the iPhone and iPad, Metaverse Wallpapers.
Metaverse Wallpapers will feature the most incredible Second…
Koinup is searching for your best wallpapers depicting Second Life’s cityscapes and urban environments to be included in the application for the iPhone and iPad, Metaverse Wallpapers.
Metaverse Wallpapers will feature the most incredible Second…
Vue PLE 8.5 is free, and has been updated recently from 8.4 to 8.5, adding the following features: Global Gamma Control Interactive Cloud Control Animated Planetary Cloud Density Maps Diagnosis Render Passes Unlimited Material…
Vue PLE 8.5 is free, and has been updated recently from 8.4 to 8.5, adding the following features: Global Gamma Control Interactive Cloud Control Animated Planetary Cloud Density Maps Diagnosis Render Passes Unlimited Material…
Some days ago SL announced they were firing 100 people. They said it was because a restructuration of their business. Some said that this has to do with their strategy, some time announced, to integrate with social sites like Facebook and integrate SL…
Some days ago SL announced they were firing 100 people. They said it was because a restructuration of their business. Some said that this has to do with their strategy, some time announced, to integrate with social sites like Facebook and integrate SL…
E-on Software, the makers of Vue 8.5 have just released Carbon Scatter, and they’re calling for Beta Testers. Carbon Scatter populates the scenes you make with millions of instances, and render them with the renderer of your choice.
Although obviously…
E-on Software, the makers of Vue 8.5 have just released Carbon Scatter, and they’re calling for Beta Testers. Carbon Scatter populates the scenes you make with millions of instances, and render them with the renderer of your choice.
Although obviously…
Frenzoo just launched a simple, easy-to-use tool built with Unity, that allows anyone to create furniture using templates. "Frenzoo has always been a fun place to enjoy creating 3d fashion and avatar looks. Now we’re expanding to furniture and…
Frenzoo just launched a simple, easy-to-use tool built with Unity, that allows anyone to create furniture using templates. "Frenzoo has always been a fun place to enjoy creating 3d fashion and avatar looks. Now we’re expanding to furniture and…
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Get to the Renderosity MarketPlace before June 27 (this Sunday, so go NOW!) and receive 15% off of your purchase of $20 or more. Remember that Ace…
Apply coupon code 20100624B15P20 to your order at the time of checkout for instant savings!!!
Get to the Renderosity MarketPlace before June 27 (this Sunday, so go NOW!) and receive 15% off of your purchase of $20 or more. Remember that Ace…
Now you can get Poser 7 for just $50 for Windows or Mac. This is a temporal discount.
Get Poser 7 for just $50 for Windows or Mac p7u8b3g4e9n5w1z0
Now you can get Poser 7 for just $50 for Windows or Mac. This is a temporal discount.
Get Poser 7 for just $50 for Windows or Mac p7u8b3g4e9n5w1z0
Machinima Expo 2010 is now accepting submissions for their competition. The selected 5 machinima films will be screened and honored at the Expo, that will take place in November.
The Grand Prize winner will also get some prize that is still…
Machinima Expo 2010 is now accepting submissions for their competition. The selected 5 machinima films will be screened and honored at the Expo, that will take place in November.
The Grand Prize winner will also get some prize that is still…
In previous book reviews we learned with Alan Brito how to model architecture, make photorealistic renders with YafaRay, and making fabulous machines with this suite, and also learned about the Blender Game Engine.
With "Blender 2.49…
In previous book reviews we learned with Alan Brito how to model architecture, make photorealistic renders with YafaRay, and making fabulous machines with this suite, and also learned about the Blender Game Engine.
With "Blender 2.49…
OnLive Game Service is now available for users in the United States, and will suppose a revolution on how games are played.
This service consists in a catalog of the latest titles in video games, that you can play on any device, because the game is…
OnLive Game Service is now available for users in the United States, and will suppose a revolution on how games are played.
This service consists in a catalog of the latest titles in video games, that you can play on any device, because the game is…
Loris Rizzo, with his work “Virtual Adam’s First and Last Birthday”, has won the 1 Minute Machinima Contest at Koinup.
The author defines this work as “the Meaning of Virtual Life in 60 seconds”, and is about what is real and what is…
Loris Rizzo, with his work “Virtual Adam’s First and Last Birthday”, has won the 1 Minute Machinima Contest at Koinup.
The author defines this work as “the Meaning of Virtual Life in 60 seconds”, and is about what is real and what is…
The new upgrade of Genetica adds an important and innovative feature. The upgrade blends photographic texture synthesis with vector drawing in an innovative new way that allows photorealistic textures to be created simply by drawing them.
…Now you can create avatars with pro soccer apparel and realistic soccer animations with Avatara.
Timed with the World Cup, Avatara’s added clothing options and character animations allow users to create animated avatars modeled after pro soccer…
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As a suggestion… 3×2 ……
Apply coupon code 2010061820P35 to your order at the time of checkout for instant savings!!!
Get to the Renderosity MarketPlace before June 20h (this Sunday, so go NOW!) and receive 20% off of your purchase of $35 or more.
As a suggestion… 3×2 ……
Jonnte, a 3D modeler that sells in Renderosity, offers a free scuba suit for his original character for Poser, Herbert.
Buy Herbert and get the scuba suit for free. This offer will end next Monday, so buy it now.
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Jonnte, a 3D modeler that sells in Renderosity, offers a free scuba suit for his original character for Poser, Herbert.
Buy Herbert and get the scuba suit for free. This offer will end next Monday, so buy it now.
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Matt Kelland is the founder of Moviestorm, the new application to make animation movies that gives you instant access to a big gallery of all that you need to make complex and rich films. In addition, Moviestorm also provides tools for machinima…
Matt Kelland is the founder of Moviestorm, the new application to make animation movies that gives you instant access to a big gallery of all that you need to make complex and rich films. In addition, Moviestorm also provides tools for machinima…
The visitors to the nation of Colombia’s pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai can enjoy exploring Colombia through 20 interactive displays.
Credit Helios Interactive Technologies (www.heliosinteractive.com), the emerging leader in "experience…
The visitors to the nation of Colombia’s pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai can enjoy exploring Colombia through 20 interactive displays.
Credit Helios Interactive Technologies (www.heliosinteractive.com), the emerging leader in "experience…
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Get to the Renderosity MarketPlace before June 14th (this Monday, so go NOW!) and receive 15% off of your purchase of $25 or more. As a suggestion… Do you…
Koinup is announcing their new application for iPhone and iPad, Metaverse Wallpapers, that will feature the most beautiful images of Second Life.
There is a contest in which you can submit your images, to be considered for inclusion in the…
My wife (emmaalvarez) and me have just released this new product for Renderosity: Livin’ In A Mushroom, that is now online and 30% Off as a launch saving!
When we started to talk about making this product we wanted to show an archetypal fantasy…
My wife (emmaalvarez) and me have just released this new product for Renderosity: Livin’ In A Mushroom, that is now online and 30% Off as a launch saving!
When we started to talk about making this product we wanted to show an archetypal fantasy…
"The 1 Minute Machinima Contest" has been extended. Now participants have until 14th of June to enter their submissions.
The 1 Minute machinima contest is an initiative powered by Koinup and Moviestorm aimed at promoting the machinima…
In a move to advance uniformity and organization in augmented reality (AR), Total Immersion (www.t-immersion.com), the global leader in AR, today unveiled the first logo for augmented reality applications. The company made the announcement at ARE…
Hiperia3D News proudly presents a series of conversations with one of the driving forces in Web3D. He is an early pioneer in virtual reality, and someone that is admired by many of the 3D community as an example of entrepreneur, developer and researcher:…
This week’s Hiperia3D’s Machinima Selections is for lorisrizzo for his wonderfully made machinima “CARbingers of the ECOcalypse”
Poid Mahovlich, creative mixed media artist & pro photographer, and also virtual worlds consultant, has selected the…
Evolver, the world’s first web based tool for building custom 3D character models and 3DVIA, Dassault Systèmes brand for delivering 3D lifelike experiences for creative professionals, casual game developers and a growing community of 3D enthusiasts,…
If you remember, MeshMixer is an innovative 3D tool to mix 3D meshes into one seamlessly, so you can build, for example, hybrid organic creatures like a minotaur or a snail-man.
See what can be done here. A new version of MeshMixer has been…
This Thursday 27th at 19:00 CET will be a new Shapeways Live webcast about which materials should Shapeways offer in the future.
To participate:
Go to…
Dr. Steve Guynup, Web 3D Consortium’s 2010 Art and Design chair, has posted this update to Web3D Art on Renderosity:
We are looking for online virtual art produced by students or recent graduates in the past 3 years. Any genre of online 3D art is…
Second Life celebrates their seventh birthday (SL7B) and the theme for this year is “Unexpected Collaboration”, which in normal language means that they want to make an spectacular party with live music and all kinds of things that you like.
…
Hiperia3D News proudly presents a series of conversations with one of the driving forces in Web3D. He is an early pioneer in virtual reality, and someone that is admired by many of the 3D community as an example of enterpreneur, developer and researcher:…
Seamless3D can be used to produce machinima too. Here’s a video tutorial that explains how.
Since the release of Seamless 2.161, making movies has never been easier.
This tutorial shows how anyone today can make high quality 3d animated movies…
I usually wonder why governments don’t take more step towards direct democracy, that is the true and only democracy possible at the long term, and I usually found no reasons but despotism and greed.
In Barcelona, Spain, the local government…
The contest consists in choosing a famous picture and transform it to a room in Twinity. The prize is being featured and many Globals (no particular quantity has been stablished).
It is not stated but obviously you should choose a picture or…
Web3D Consortium this year is having more interest in the artistic side of building 3D worlds, something that many of us have asked many times. This year’s conference will showcase works of artistic 3D web building.
The Web3D Consortium is a…
Web3D Consortium this year is having more interest in the artistic side of building 3D worlds, something that many of us have asked many times. This year’s conference will showcase works of artistic 3D web building.
The Web3D Consortium is a…
This week’s Hiperia3D’s Machinima Selections is for BrynOh for the fantastic “7 backspaces”
Poid Mahovlich, creative mixed media artist & pro photographer, and also virtual worlds consultant, has selected the nominees for this week’s feature,…
Hiperia3D News proudly presents a series of conversations with one of the driving forces in Web3D. He is an early pioneer in virtual reality, and someone that is admired by many of the 3D community as an example of entrepreneur, developer and researcher:…
Hiperia3D News proudly presents a series of conversations with one of the driving forces in Web3D. He is an early pioneer in virtual reality, and someone that is admired by many of the 3D community as an example of entrepreneur, developer and researcher:…
This week there’s 3 free webinars at the 3DVIA Learning Center:
May 18 or 19: Creating Rich, Interactive 3D Manuals for Medical Devices with 3DVIA Composer
May 20: 3DVIA Tips & Tricks: Create a 3D App in 30 Minutes to Share Online
May 26 or…
This week there’s 3 free webinars at the 3DVIA Learning Center:
May 18 or 19: Creating Rich, Interactive 3D Manuals for Medical Devices with 3DVIA Composer
May 20: 3DVIA Tips & Tricks: Create a 3D App in 30 Minutes to Share Online
May 26 or…
Twinity is running these contests:
50 Globals for "Avatar of the Day"
If you put time in your avatar’s style, why not show off your unique look to the community – and you could become the "Avatar of the Day"! 250 Globals…
Twinity is running these contests:
50 Globals for "Avatar of the Day"
If you put time in your avatar’s style, why not show off your unique look to the community – and you could become the "Avatar of the Day"! 250 Globals…
Altadyn announced the first solution for voice-enabled 3D immersive collaboration platform for virtual meetings and events with no down-load required.
3DXplorer consolidates as a fundamental and powerful solution for corporate and business…
Altadyn announced the first solution for voice-enabled 3D immersive collaboration platform for virtual meetings and events with no down-load required.
3DXplorer consolidates as a fundamental and powerful solution for corporate and business…
An opportunity to test your 3D modeling skills, have your object 3D printed in full color by Shapeways and win $100 worth of 3D printing.
The contest ends May 31th, read the rules here: http://www.shapeways.com/contest/student_contest_may2010
And…
An opportunity to test your 3D modeling skills, have your object 3D printed in full color by Shapeways and win $100 worth of 3D printing.
The contest ends May 31th, read the rules here: http://www.shapeways.com/contest/student_contest_may2010
And…
After the tremendous success of the first seven entries to the ShaderX book series, and the upcoming success of the GPU Pro book (http://gpupro.blogspot.com/), Wolfgang F.Engel is looking for authors for GPU Pro 2.
The upcoming book will cover…
COLLADA, the XML-based schema to make it easy to transport 3D assets between applications, has its own group now at Vimeo.
Visit it at http://vimeo.com/groups/44451 and watch videos like this:
Flartoolkit, Schmitt dogfight animation from Justin…
Apply coupon code 022210B15P25 to your order at the time of checkout, and you’ll get 15% off of your purchase of $25.00 or more. This coupon expires February 25, 2010 at 11:59pm (CST) Renderosity system time, so take advantage of these sweet savings…
As announced in the article "The Best For 2010 In 3D And Virtual Worlds", Web3D Consortium and the World Wide Web Consortium are working to integrate HTML 5 with X3D. Together, they are exploring different ways to join the 2D and the 3D…
Time: February 20, 2010 from 10am to 6pm Location: RL – Amsterdam – Netherlands SL MMIF 1,2,3,4 Organized By: Chantal Harvey Event Description: MMIF 2010’ is the second edition of an annual film festival in 3D cyberspace with a…
Apply coupon code 021310B14P14 to your order at the time of checkout, and you’ll get 14% off of your purchase of $14.00 or more. This coupon expires February 15, 2010 at 11:59pm (CST) Renderosity system time, so take advantage of these sweet savings…
ColoRotate is a 3D color picker. In real world, colors are influenced by shading, and are not flat. This is why this application is an advantage for us. ColoRotate has an online version and a Photoshop CS4 plugin (just $39) available at…
I have finished my project for Renderosity called Ace Of The Skies. This is a 3D model for Poser and DAZ Studio. Soon I will tell you more in detail about the process of building and testing, and some story behind this. For now, here are some renders…
Freja and Adiene are putting on a sale for all their Renderosity store and offer up to 70% off for a limited time! These vendors offer mainly female characters for poser models, meaning textures and morphs to make characters like Victoria 4 for Poser…
In the last times there’s an increased interest in Augmented Reality, and it’s not strange because in a near future we will begin to see it integrated in our lives. Here’s a selection of videos that show some kind of augmented reality I found during…
All DAZ3D base figures are free: Victoria, Michael, Freak, She-Freak. The Girl, Hiro, Aiko… All of them. In case you don’t know it, DAZ is the creator of DAZ Studio and these figures are used to make rendered 3D art by artists all over the world. ...
The creators of Evolver, the worlds first web based tool for building custom 3D character models, have just launched Avatara, a new site designed specifically for social media enthusiasts. Avatara enables fast, easy creation and upload of customized,...
From a collaboration between Koinup.com and artistic director Luca Lisci, www.koinup.tv opens as new HQ web TV channel.
The channel will go live broadcasting the pilot episode of ’’Reality Breakdown’’, a show fully dedicated to virtual…
The3dStudio.com, Inc. (www.the3dstudio.com) announces their collection has reached a new growth milestone750,000 royalty-free 2D and 3D resources are now available on the web site, and more are added each day.
The3dStudio.com is a one-stop…
All members of Association of Virtual Worlds are called to participate in their first SEMINAR SERIES, organizing virtual seminars with the support of the AVW. This year, 2010, the Association of Virtual Worlds will be launching its first SEMINAR…
This interesting press release tells how Micoy Corporation has patented a new and unique system for immersive spherical 3D environments. With this, the user gets immersed literally inside a movie or 3D creation. This is clearly the future of 3D…
Paris, France January 13th, 2010 Dassault Systmes (DS) (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced the availability of 3DVIA Composer V6R2010x. Significant enhancements in…
Today Frenzoo has been launched their public beta. Join them and start populating this brand new world. Photo by FLORENT SLPRO.FR HONG KONG, January 11, 2010—Frenzoo Ltd today launches the first global 3d online world with user generated…
As stated, this is the contest: you model a plastic tableware for Maryland Plastics, and get $300 in 3D Printing at Shapeways. Read the entry at Shapeways blog here. February 7th 2010 is the deadline. Hurry! p7u8b3g4e9n5w1z0
As I said in the article "The Best For 2010 In 3D And Virtual Worlds", Shapeways is going to give us lots of good surprises for the near future. They have just released 3D printing in colors. As you will read in their blog, the precision of…
These days I went to a 3D cinema in my town to watch Avatar, the movie by James Cameron. As many of you may be curious about this movie, and others may have already watched it and may want to share opinions, here’s my review.
The movie tells how…
Everybody uses to make posts on the beginning of a new year about predictions or what was the best of the last year. This post wants not to be like these. I want to highlight some of the new things that happened in 2009 and how I think they will…
Bender3D is one of the most popular 3D modelers. It is open source and has been used in the making of many cinema productions, and in the development of many computer games. This book, Blender 3D 2.49 Incredible Machines, tells you how to construct…
As you may have noticed, the template of our site has changed. The new design is the work of Emma Alvarez, digital artist and illustrator (and also my wife :) ). You can watch her official website and see her illustration in her galleries.
When I…
In the last times, our site lowered its activity a little because there are some new projects coming. Read to know what’s coming up. One of them is the new Facebook fan page for Hiperia3D News. I encourage you to join as a fan. This page will be a way…
Here’s my Christmas gift for you, a collection of Firefox Add-ons that I use in my daily work. They are all tested and work together (are compatible) in Firefox 3.5. Hiperia3D News has proven to have a very loyal and highly qualified readership, and I…
DAZ3D and Gizmoz have announced their merge and this means something great for modelers, developers and multimedia directors.
DAZ3D is renowned for its high-quality, versatile and compatible 3D content, for Poser, DAZ Studio, Carrara, Vue, and other…
Altadyn, the developer of 3DXplorer, the first browserbased plug-in-less 3D platform for live collaboration, announced today a new White Label Partner, Generation-O-Marketing, a global full service marketing group.
3DXplorer V5 released…
DAZ3D and Gizmoz have announced their merge and this means something great for modelers, developers and multimedia directors. DAZ3D is renowned for its high-quality, versatile and compatible 3D content, for Poser, DAZ Studio, Carrara, Vue, and other…
MOOFU, a fast-growing UK company focusing on emerging technology, emerging markets and emerging people, today announces the launch of an interactive online 3D tool that enables teachers, students and planners to test learning environments.
LEVROS …
MOOFU, a fast-growing UK company focusing on emerging technology, emerging markets and emerging people, today announces the launch of an interactive online 3D tool that enables teachers, students and planners to test learning environments. LEVROS …
I just finished the book of Packt Publishing called "Papervision3D Essentials", and I really enjoyed it. This is an excellent manual for Papervision3D. You may start having no idea of this Flash technology and end being an intermediate…
The Shapeways.com Co-Create Christmas Contest, which began on November 3, 2009, challenged the Shapeways community of Co-Creators to think outside the box to design one-of-a-kind Christmas inspired items. The contest, which just ended Friday, December…
The3dStudio.com has updated the design and added new features to their 3D model and stock photo/image website. The new design is cleaner and pages load much faster.
Visitors to www.the3dstudio.com will find larger and better quality…
Filter Forge is 50% for this holidays. You can now get it and save a lot of money. The discounts is also on upgrades! Filter Forge is an application that works as a VERY HUGE library of filters and texture generators. If you don’t know what…
MeshMixer is a new freeware application to mix 3D shapes through drag and drop. With it you can easily make things like minotaurs, centaurs, a rabbit with an human head, a face that emerges from a door… Specially good for organic shapes. To see…
GLC_Player is an open source 3D model viewer that can display models in COLLADA, STL, 3DS, and OBJ, and other file formats.
You can make albums with your 3D models to quickly browse folders. In addition, it has screen capture…
Explore Media Group is one of the worlds leading producers of 3D content, utilizing the newest and latest technologies, cameras, and software to generate HD quality anaglyph and stereoscopic 3D media. 3D Samurai Demo Reel Version 1.0 by exploretv …
Blacksmith 3D is 50% off through November 30 (next Monday!). And up to 65% off for Platinum Club members of DAZ3D. Get Blacksmith 3D 50% Off
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SHANGHAI, China, November 24, 2009 Dassault Systmes (DS) (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, and the French Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010 today unveiled the first true,...
Visit the Facebook Page of Twinity and tag yourself in the pictures of the apartments you like best to take part in the giveaway of 5 prime location luxury Apartments in Virtual London. Do this before December 7, 2009! Visit Twinity’s Virtual London…
You know a new book review is coming, about the book called "Blender 3D 2.49 Incredible Machines". The same editor is sending me another book. I will soon read and review a new book of Packt Publishing called "Papervision 3D…
Giff Constable, who recently was Vice President at Electric Sheep, published an interesting article about why people purchase virtual goods. It is well written and entertaining to read, and says very clever things. p7u8b3g4e9n5w1z0
Gamasutra, the big portal of gaming, from time to time publishes lots of available jobs in small, medium and big companies of the game and 3D or animation industry. If you’re looking for a good job don’t miss this. p7u8b3g4e9n5w1z0
Telegraph has published a very interesting science article that states that we may be able to be immortal in 20 years in the future. This will be possible through the use of nanotechnology to replace organs with tech, so you become some kind of cyborg….
Wacom, the leader in graphics tablets, has launched one that combines a touchpad and tablet in a single device, that you can handle with the pen or with your hands. It is called Bamboo Touch. p7u8b3g4e9n5w1z0
E-on has announced that Vue 8 Pioneer will remain completely free. You can download it and use it for free forever. Among new features available in Vue 8 Pioneer you have: the new strata fractals, planetary rendering, 3D terrain sculpting, Spectral 3…
Snoopy Pfeffers Blog publishes a very clever article about the cost of features and services that is given for free in virtual worlds, taking OSGrid as an example.
And this is because what is free for users is not free for the owners of…
Shapeways Blog published some information about some recent projects to print 3D models in clay and glass. The advantages of these materials are their low cost and thus bigger margins of benefit for creators, that also get their models in noble…
Remember the Step Up! day. It’s tomorrow November 5th!!
Help content creators on Second Life!
p7u8b3g4e9n5w1z0Do you remember the book that Allan Brito published about Blender and was reviewed here? Well, a new book from this expert architect and 3D modeling expert will be published soon.
This new book is called "Blender 3D 2.49 Incredible…
The Khronos project to get 3D through javascript in web pages called WebGL has an interesting sample here. Read the text for instructions on how to setup WebGL in your browser. For Firefox you may need to install a nightly build, that is a version of…
Some books tell you how to program in some language. "Code Craft" tells you how to do it well in all computer languages.
This is another of the titles edited by "No Starch Press" like the one about Blender that I reviewed...Next Friday MixED will host another exhibition of VRML art, featuring the artist and worldbuilder Alana (Alice in code). Start Time: Friday, November 6 at 9:00pm End Time: Saturday, November 7 at 12:00am This is…
Here are the details:This interesting article is about the possibilities that Blue Mars may suppose a real competitor for Second Life. The author thinks it won’t. Read it to know the reasons.
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This is an example of JavaFX that makes a 3D labyrinth. This is not real 3D but simulated. Source code is not available yet, but will be. The demo includes atmospheric sounds. http://www.jfxia.com/JFXDemos/3DMaze/index.html p7u8b3g4e9n5w1z0
The package that was called Unity Indie and now is called simply "Unity" will be free for developers of virtual worlds and games that generate less than $100,000 a year. In their License page they say: "Companies or incorporated…
3DTotal would just announced today their brand new Texture and Reference Image Library a fantastic FREE archive of high-resolution images featuring 12,500 royalty free photos currently available to everyone without any download limitations.
...Twitter is launching a beta feature called List that will serve as groups to put twitter users with some interest in common together. I have just founded some for my use, but feel free to join them, follow them and make yours. If you make or have…
DAZ3D may offer a new service called DAZ Links: the huge catalog of 3D models from DAZ site may be available to be purchased for 3D games and virtual worlds.
In this moment, DAZ’s content is licensed only for 2D works, render works and art in…
Did you know that Vivaty is now available to Mac users or even to those who don’t want to install a plugin?
Read about this in Vivaty Blog.
It is also interesting to read the comments of the entry because it contains reflections about the web…
Aliso Viejo, CA (October 27, 2009)-Evolver, the easy-to-use web interface for building and customizing 3D character models and avatars, will be at the Unite conference being hosted by Unity Technologies, the leading provider of the multi-platform game…
In case you missed it, have a look how Shapeways Blog tells how one of their users (Eric Finley) is exporting his characters from the game Spore and tweaks them to be printed in 3D with Shapeways.
Photo by darkripper This is because Spore…
If you’re a Netbeans IDE user you should not miss this article of the Netbeans wiki that says how to use the open source jMonkeyEngine for coding 3D games: http://wiki.netbeans.org/Java3DGamingWithNetBeans is not Drag’n’Drop, you have to code…
Metaverse Ink is a search engine that allows you to search inside Second Life or Opensim. Just type and select where to search and it will show you different links, with images when possible. http://www.metaverseink.com/ p7u8b3g4e9n5w1z0
Digital Inspiration tells us about an innovative product that simulates a digital tablet with screen, a tablet PC. This way you can use your monitor and this device and emulate an expensive Tablet PC . ...
Gaanza tells us how to set up Netbeans IDE correctly to work with the games java library LWJGL (http://lwjgl.org/). The Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) is a solution aimed directly at professional and amateur Java programmers alike to enable…
Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application that helps you place your furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview. http://www.sweethome3d.eu/ p7u8b3g4e9n5w1z0
PersonalizeMedia published a very long but easy to read and interesting article about augmented reality, with videos of example. Don’t miss it: http://www.personalizemedia.com/16-top-augmented-reality-business-models/ p7u8b3g4e9n5w1z0
Syntensity develops Intensity Engine, a 3D engine for virtual worlds and 3D games of high quality. It is available for Linux, Mac and Windows. They’re in open beta, and are also looking for C++ coders and people that may help them with business…
The prize of the SHOOOT Awards is a fully sponsored trip to attend SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 in Yokohama, Japan.
Photo of Yokohama by kalandrakas You must create your own movies from either your favorite 3D game or virtual world and…
Flyar is a free Twitter visualization application that uses Augmented Reality and gesture interaction.
Flyar uses your webcam to create an augmented reality image where birds fly or hang around tree branches and fly towards you to deliver…
Second Life starts their community partnership program, that basically consists in this: your community makes things that are good for Second Life like attracting people to join, events that are attractive, etc, and they give you something in return,...
You must make a model that can be made on metal through the 3D printing service of Shapeways. So join Shapeways. Photo by mattfoster You have until October 20 to enter the contest. There will be 9 winners in 3 categories: Art, Technology, and…
3D Tutorials and cool 3D articles, good for developers. This is a selection of links to articles in blogs that are in Dzone. If you use Dzone, give them some votes. Away3D Basics 6 – Bitmap materials Demo of Away3D to set materials
Making a 3D…
DAZ Studio 3 Plugin SDK and Script Development Kit are now available for free. The first allows you to create plugins for DAZ Studio in C++ and the second is for writing scripts in ecmascript (javascript, almost the same) for DAZ Studio.
Done with…
Linden Labs has released some statistics of the use that their virtual citizens give to Second Life, the money they deal, hours online, and things like that. In case you are interested, read this article and this other one. p7u8b3g4e9n5w1z0
MaxPoly of Virlands has sent this news to be published here at Hiperia3D News. The CY Awards for 2009 are coming, and you can’t miss this important and fun event in ActiveWorlds. If you are on the Association of Virtual Worlds, you can also visit the…
This is a visual guide on how to wear the orange ribbon to help the Step UP! campaign. I was unable to get the pack in-world, so better get it at XStreet. The easiest way is to go to XStreet, login with your Second Life name and password and then…
The new episode of Life On Line is out. WE’RE BACK with an all-new program that looks at how we spend out lives online. But this time, we’re not avatars. In this first show, we take the waxhead’s tour of the web – how real surfers surf the net. We meet…
The Guild has been hard at work producing their first Machinima Award. If you havent watched the machinimas yet, visit the Machinima Award 2009 site (http://mag-award-2009.ning.com) and check them out. One of the videos of the art category…
Step UP! is a campaign against the wholesale theft of sims and content in Second Life.
The Content Creators Association organizes a campaign in magazines, TV, Internet media and inside Second Life to stop theft of content and make people…
Renderosity organizes a contest for Halloween. The submissions can be in the categories of 3D/Animation, 2D/Photography, and Writing.
The deadline for submitting entries is Wednesday, October 14th at 11:59pm CST (Renderosity System Time)...
Shapeways is making an experiment offering big discounts, ranging 25 to 75% for large orders (500-1000 dollars). You have until October 10 to order and benefit of this. If you have some kind of shop, or you want your 3D models printed in 3D to sell…
The Daily Reviewer has selected Hiperia3D News as one of the top 100 blogs in the topic "Virtual Worlds". Top virtual worlds Blogs This is how The Daily Reviewer describe themselves: "The Daily Reviewer selects only the…
Nurien Software is now getting ready for full-scale launches in key international markets. "With no client download, amazing animation and 3D graphics, and the ability to utilize existing social networks weve developed enhancements that are…
Prim Perfect Magazines September issue focuses on the Islands of New England, featuring several articles about the community. On this Thursday 8th October, starting at 6pm SLT, there will be three straight hours of music. 6pm Cylindrian…
Vue 7 PLE is a free version of Vue 7. It is called Free Personal Learning Edition because it’s for non commercial use. The Free Personal Learning Edition (PLE) is a fully functionnal version of Vue 7.5 Infinite/xStream (selection of Infinite or xStream…
Virtual Expo is a virtual world created within Tila – Spaces and Places programme coordinated by Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation. Virtual Expo is created by the game studio LudoCraft which is also one of the main…
Sony wants to take their virtual world PlayStation Home to the PlayStation Portable, called Room.
Photo by JoshMcConnell Users of PS Room will be able to build avatars, engage in real-time chat, and network with other players. It is aimed to a…
3DVIA has launched a new application for the iPhone. At the same time, there’s a contest that has an Amazon Kindle as prize. Log into and manage your 3DVIA.com account; search and interact with the thousands of models posted on 3DVIA.com; or create new…
DAZ3D has just published a new offer: you can purchase Poser 8 for just $150, if are part of the Platinum Club, or join before purchasing Poser 8. So it’s simple, if you’re a Platinum Club member, visit this link and get Poser 8 saving $100. If you…
Gleman Jun is an artist that uses Second Life as a platform to show his works of art. These days, you can watch some of them at S&S gallery of fine SL Art. These are dynamic artworks, that evolve through time. ...
This video shows how’s done the 3D printing in metal with Shapeways, and may be of interest for those curious about this process. p7u8b3g4e9n5w1z0
3DXplorer has reached its V5 version and is now online for everybody since today. Altadyn, the developer of 3DXplorer, the first browser-based plug-in-less 3D platform for live collaboration, announced today full release of 3DXplorer version 5,...
DeepView is free, and is two things in one: a way to publish 3D content into a document in Word, PowerPoint, or PDF, and other applications… and also a good 3D viewer. As a way to insert 3D inside Word, it can be improved. I did some tests and the…
Last month there were some news about VRML and X3D. You can see VRML is not dead, still. AccuTrans 2.11.5 Released
AccuTrans 3D has made some changes to improve its interface and added some other features that may be of value for VRML…
The new 3DXplorer Conferencing Product enables over 100 participants in a 3D room, with just a browser, no download required.
Altadyn, the developer of 3DXplorer, the first browser-based plug-in-less 3D platform for synchronous collaboration, today…
The new episode of Life On Line is out. This is the last in the current series of Life On Line. They will return in October with series 2. "In the final edition of the current series of Life On Line (lucky episode 13) we chat with…
Now you can embed your DAZ Studio models inside a web page, using a Java application that generates the needed code. 3D Web Exporter is a plugin for DAZ Studio. Here’s an example. Drag and use the controls to examine the model.
Features …
Many people know that Blender is a free and open source 3D creation suite that has grown over the years to become one of the most powerful tools for 3D. What many people may not know is that Blender includes a game creation kit. You don’t need to…
This is a series of videos from the last Web3D 2009 Conference that show some of the speakers talking about the new camera nodes for X3D that are being proposed mainly for machinima. Seems that the Consortium and its associates has taken interest in…
Retrouvailles 2009 / Seeing each other again 2009
Time: September 4, 2009 to September 6, 2009
Location: http://outside.revemonde.net/w3d/no_cache/community/contact.html On WBandD, Taranis from Revemonde describes the meeting…
MixED will celebrate their 7th exhibition in Virtual Reality Chat by Funmaker. It is a chat application with game elements that consists both in client and server. The client runs in Windows and Linux (tested on Ubuntu). It is very easy to install on…
Some time ago we talked about Atangeo Balancer Lite, the free version of Atangeo Balancer. Now, the 1.0 version of Atangeo Balancer is finally out. It is a very easy to use application that will help you to optimize your 3D models in Wavefront OBJ file…
Second Life have rebuilt their website and the best and fastest way to see what has changed is to watch this video by Torley Linden. p7u8b3g4e9n5w1z0
Engage! Expo is giving away 200 free expo-only passes available. The exhibit hall includes social media, virtual worlds and game enabling companies, virtual goods and monetization solutions providers, legal firms and 3D Training software companies…
Need a script for Second Life? Try to find it here, there are tons of them. http://www.freeslscripts.gendersquare.org/ They are divided into 7 categories: business, communication, entertainment, avatar augmentation, vehicle, building, and varia…
Today I was invited and joined a network for Second Life avatars, and I am now introducing you all to this. It is named MOOLTO. Moolto is a huge community, with more than 3,500 members. There are lots of things to do there, mostly sharing your…
Renderosity launches a new promotion called "The Heat Is On!". For every purchase that you make, you can also add a product on promotion for free. The promoted product changes every day. Read more about it and check this page every day for…
Koinup has launched a new contest. If you win, your images will be displayed on Koinup’s home page, thus being seen by lots of thousands of people every day. You can read the related announcement in the group that you must join to participate, called…
Recently, Linden Lab has announced the release of LLMedia API, that will allow developers to create plugins for Second Life Viewer to visualize new content types inworld. Users will install that plugins and for example they can watch an additional…
3DXplorer has reached their V5 and the new features are exciting. If you didn’t, go and test it.
More and more businesses and professionals choose 3DXplorer as their platform for virtual collaboration. Some of the new features are: ...
3DXplorer has reached their V5 and the new features are exciting. If you didn’t, go and test it.
More and more businesses and professionals choose 3DXplorer as their platform for virtual collaboration. Some of the new features are: ...
These 2 resources for learning VRML scripting and animation contain tutorials with minimalist examples, that can be easily adapted to X3D or used in your VRML works.
WhiteDune Examples: Many examples for scripting, animations, and sensors.
...I have recently purchased this modeler, Hexagon 2.5, that usually costs near $150 and now is at 45% off through this monday 17. This is your opportunity to get it for just $81, and $57 if you join the Platinum Club of DAZ3D. I will review Hexagon…
I have recently purchased this modeler, Hexagon 2.5, that usually costs near $150 and now is at 45% off through this monday 17. This is your opportunity to get it for just $81, and $57 if you join the Platinum Club of DAZ3D. I will review Hexagon…
Shapeways has released the Co-Creator Platform. Now, designers are offered easy tools to turn their designs into customizable templates, enabling interaction with their customers. Turning their designs into templates, designers are now empowering the…
Vivaty just announced that they’re introducing VivaBux, virtual money that can be purchased with real money. You can purchase this virtual money through different methods, one of them is paying by PayPal, being this the most secure. 400 VivaBux are…
Vue 3D Environment Competition 2009 The 3D competition of one the rendering application Vue has announced its winners. Go and check’em, you’ll find stunning natural landscapes.
...Shapeways and Bonzai3D are running a contest together: a 3D modeling and printing contest. These are the rules: All models must be created with bonzai3d and tagged b3d. If you dont have bonzai3d, DOWNLOAD the free trial version at…
Building a website is not something easy for everyone, and if we think in building a online store or a serious website with plenty of features, it becomes a really hard task. To make a complex website like those described, you may need many things: a…
Shapeways introduces today Tuesday 4th of August the possibility to print your 3D models in stainless steel. This is a great innovation for 3D printing. Shapeways has also offered precious metals for this service, including pure silver, and the…
vSide has been adquired by ExitReality, but all will remain the same, so don’t worry if you have an account there. As you can read in their press release: "ExitReality plans to continue to run and develop vSide without any major changes" ...
The new episode of Life On Line is out. "The latest show looks at coping with job loss – and a very handy book now helps anyone in this situation cope with an uncertain future. As Singapore gears up for its national day, the virtual world Twinity…
JavaPassion starts a free course on JavaFX next August 25. This is your opportunity to learn this new technology for free. JavaPassion hosts lots of free courses on Java-related topics organized by Sang Shin, and other expert teachers.
All courses…
Koinup has partnered with Frenzoo to make a contest. Just join Frenzoo, customize your avatar, take some pics and then upload them to the Frenzoo Group on Koinup. Contest is open to all the Koinup members and Frenzoo users. Read the rules here. ...
DAZ Studio is at 50% off through this Friday, July 31. It only costs $52.49 !!! Also, the plugins are 30%-50% off. This is a great opportunity to get the plugins that you want for DAZ Studio at a ridiculous price.
Carrara 7 is also on a…
Evolver, has just completed a two month public alpha cycle to launch a fully functioning website where visitors can create and export 3D avatars and clones in a matter of minutes using simple slider and selection functions offering a wide range of…
WBandD now has a Facebook fan group. You can join and show your love for this community and also use it to discuss about it on Facebook. WBandD on Facebook is an extension of this worldbuilders community into Facebook.
WBandD is a…
Sflisijn (also known as Sander in Active Worlds Europe) filmed part of the Rocking the Metaverse Active Worlds Europe show and created this video. Rocking The Metaverse in Activ… – a Other Worlds Machinima by sflisijn on Koinup Remember to join the…
Amazon Kindle is a new ebook reader device. You may have seen many other ebook readers, but they lack of many of the characteristics of Kindle 2.
There are 2 innovative devices that are changing the way we live. One is netbooks. The…
Keen on its pursuit of constantly having fresh and easily customizable products for their community, Shapeways has expanded its creator series and introduced their new Stylus Creator.
With your very own personalized stylus you can say goodbye to…
We said in a previous post that VRML is not dead. Surprisingly, it still rocks and is having a re-birth that can be seen in news related to this language that appear.
Need more? These are the facts: The increasing presence of VRML on…
The Association of Virtual Worlds will host some webinars presented by Altadyn about 3DXplorer. I assisted to one of these webinars in the past and I can recommend them. These webinars will tell you many of the features of this platform that has…
Koinup and Twinity have partnered to run a machinima contest called "Powered by Real Life". The submission time is from 15th of July to 20th of August, and the voting time is from 20th of August to 24th of September. The winner will get…
The new episode of Life On Line is out. "Life On Line looks at the moon landing – FACT or FRAUD – as we mark the 40th anniversary of that giant leap for mankind. We meet the organiser of the Relay For Life as it takes place in a virtual world….
This summer is full of interesting offers. One of our sponsors, Filter Forge, is offering 25% off any Filter Forge edition until August 9. If you don’t know what Filter Forge is, read this article. p7u8b3g4e9n5w1z0
Renderosity is giving free passes for SIGRRAPH, so you can enter the exhibition without having to pay. You have ‘till next Monday 20. Read more on this here. p7u8b3g4e9n5w1z0
Don’t forget to be at ActiveWorlds Europe this 14th of July. Rocking the Metaverse will be celebrated there. Koinup invites you to join ActiveWorlds Europe and familiarize with it. Anyway, ActiveWorlds is easy to use, so you can install and enter in…
Check this tutorial on how to reduce the cost (for you) in 3D printing your models that have meshes that overlap.
Picture by mackz Shapeways tells us how to do it. Basically, you turn different overlapping meshes into one using boolean modeling…
VirtualBox has improved its 3D support. As you may have read, VirtualBox is a free (GPL) project that simulates virtual computers that run in your real PC as programs. Read the article in which I explained it. You can read a list of the recent changes…
Rocking the Metaverse continues this Tuesday July 7th, and will route through Second Life, ActiveWorlds, and Metaplace. Photo of the CY Awards by hiperia3d Read the announcement in Rocking The Metaverse at Koinup. This is the list of events: ...
NEXT WEEK CG CON 2009 is coming, July 16 to 19. This is the world’s largest conference for creative computer graphics professional offering 24 Master Classes and many other activities. AUGUST SIGGRAPH 2009 will this year be one of the big events…
Mesa, AZJuly 6, 2009: The3dStudio.com, Inc. is pleased to announce the addition of over 1000 DeEspona 3D models to their web site, bringing the total of free and priced resources to more than 270,000.
The3dStudio.com web site offers 3D…
ZBrush recently launched new plugins that are good for 3D printing with services like Shapeways: one for optimization of meshes, and the other to export in formats suitable for 3D printing. Modeled with Zbrush. Photo by jamsven.de You can get the…
Quoted from the Koinup source: Orange Island, the Museum of Second Life Photography and Koinup are pleased to announce a new summer photo competition: the H2O Contest.
The themes are Water and H2Oand photographs can show any Second Life…
The first steps that you should take when starting your business activity is to register your trademark and your online presence so it is not taken by anyone else.
This is a vital step in which you may get lost without guidance. This is where…
The new episode of Life On Line is out. "We remember Michael Jackson on the latest Life On Line, out now. Fashion expert Scarlett Niven previews a new virtual world dedicated to fashion, Frenzoo.com. Corporate reputation expert Alex Harris explains…
Koinup has recently created a new Crossworld Support group for people that start to use other virtual worlds, and also wants to promote the continuous migration from one virtual world to another. Photo by Andoni Merlin For example, there are threads…
Shapeways introduces the first ever 3D print-ready gadget offerings. In an effort to offer easy and accessible 3D design and printing to their users and community members, Shapeways is happy to announce the opening of its 3D parts database, all of which…
Today, June 23, 2009, begins the celebration of the 6 years of Second Life. The party runs through June 30. There’s a party in 20 regions on SL, themed "The Future of Virtual Worlds", and will start after 10 am SLT (Second Life Time). ...
Vivaty has announced in their blog that a new twitter object has been added to the builder application. So you can add it to your walls, configure it to display the tweets of someone and see them displayed there. You can use your own messages or…
DAZ Studio Advanced is out. As always, you also have a FREE edition of DAZ Studio 3, but now there’s also a PRO option available. If you don’t know what DAZ Studio is, check this article. It will tell you about what are DAZ, DAZ Studio, Carrara and…
Shapeways can now print in 3D (see this article about 3D printing) QR code stamps, that are those weird signs in black and white that you can scan with your mobile, and then visit a website or reveal some coded text. Visit this article and see how you…
Download these reference models for any 3D application (OBJ) and for Anim8or. They will help you to model for DAZ and Poser with the right scale. DOWNLOAD HERE Some of the models as seen inside Anim8or When modeling objects for Poser or DAZ…
Koinup now supports Twinity, and they’ve joined to offer you the best concerts with the "Rock The Metaverse" festival and other community events.
Don’t miss it if you’re on Twinity and Koinup. And if you aren’t, what are you waiting for?...
The new episode of Life On Line is out. "Life On Line is proud to support two very worthy causes. The Friends Fighting Cancer who have tirelessly worked to raise money for the Relay For Life, a global cancer research fundraiser staged in the…
Anim8or is the free 3D modeler for Windows created by R. Steven Glanville. Its main virtues: simplicity and control. Anim8or is a great 3D modeler. It is very easy to learn to use it. There are thousands of pages with tutorials, and gives you a…
A new book by Daniel James may be valuable for every user with a creative side. It will tell you how to build digital media with Blender, the GIMP, Scribus, Audacity and other apps. Although the book is focused to Linux users, all the applications…
You can now download the 3D models of the Museum of Computing (of Computer History) of the School of Computer Science of the University of Castilla-La Mancha offers a walk through the history of computers. Go there and get free 3D models of classic…
Xia Xiaowan is a Chinese painter that paints in 3D using layers of glass. Xiaowan paints in a series of glass layers his works of art, that he carefully plans and distributes as sliced sheets of crystal, so when looked from the front side, they create…
You can now check some screenshots of Eden 0.1.1 and the sample games developed with that. See the new screenshots here: http://blog.funtrench.com/?p=55 p7u8b3g4e9n5w1z0
DeleD 3D Editor is a complete solution to create 3D sceneries and game levels that includes all kinds of tools for this: modeler, level designer, materials editor… It has a LITE free version that lacks of the big library of the paid versions…
The new episode of Life On Line is out. "Microsoft Evangelist Zain Naboulsi shares his vision of the future of the internet. And Shakti introduces a great music video by Hughie called ‘Slap That Ass’. It’s seriously cool." As…
You can decide if ExitReality will index your worlds in their search engine or not, and if you want to allow all people embed your works in their pages or not. This way, ExitReality offers a good set of tools to decide and control the use of your VRML…
This week, from June 1 to 8, 2009, the Fashion Week will be celebrated in Second Life. You can check the event details in the Association of Virtual Worlds. Photo by Minako Bracken See the hottest new looks in SL during Fashion Week at the…
The Koinup group of Hiperia3D News this week features "Sorrow & Hope", directed by CarlaBroek, a work to make us though about the world in which we live, and full of sensitivity for all those who suffer. If you like it, visit CarlaBroek…
Francesco D’Orazio In METAMEETS 09 Here you can watch the presentation Francesco DOrazio (Myrl’s Founder and CEO) did about the patterns and challenges in the evolution of immersive entertainment, virtual worlds and the 3D Web, with the…
Here’s a list of Netbeans tutorials, that where done in the previous months or years, and are still of value, specially when dealing with language support and module development. Integrate a new file type Define new languages ...
ARToolKit is a software library for building Augmented Reality (AR) applications. Augmented Reality is getting into our lives as Wii consoles and other gadgets, and may be the future of software developments. In AR applications, the virtual and the…
Most of us like technology. And when we purchase a mobile phone, we are looking for something more than just a gadget to talk to people. Listening to music, or to the radio, installing games and other files to your phone directly from your PC, saving…
3D Content for a Lifetime: The 14th Annual Web3D Symposium Celebrates Milestone of Innovation and Durability The fourteenth annual International Web3D Symposium will showcase X3D, the only open, royalty-free and ISO-certified technology available today…
Caligari TrueSpace 7.6 was offered as a freeware some time ago. Now, Microsoft is reducing costs on many services, and TrueSpace is one of the victims of the crisis.
Bruce Lehmann, owner and main administrator of our community of worldbuilders (...
Shapeways has just introduced the first DIY 3D printed customizable metal cufflinks. With the new, free, and easy-to-use Shapeways Cufflink Creator, users simply enter text and select the style of their choice to create a one of a kind metal…
Evolver has entered in "alfa" testing. You can go and create your own avatar, that you can use in many different platforms. One avatar for all. Evolver deals with the avatar and turns it into the native format of every supported platform, and…
SceneCaster has released a new application for Facebook that makes very easy to build a 3D scene in minutes. My 3D scene in Facebook with SceneCaster There are free templates and premium ones. You can use your photos to create your…
NEXTSTEP IN MACHINIMA PRODUCTION is looking for pros and beginners in all timezones. Look their jobs page to see what is available, but amongst others, they are looking for: machinima experts postproduction animation experts (.bvh ) 3D…
Shapeways has just announced a new contest, very thrilling for every 3D modeler: "The Faces contest starts today and ends the 19th of June. Enter by uploading a model and adding the tag Faces to it. The winner will be chosen by Shapeways and will…
The first concerts in Orange Island, sponsored by Koinup, are going to start on 19th of May at 1PM SLT at the Orange Island in Second Life. Don’t miss it and read more here. p7u8b3g4e9n5w1z0
Accidentally, I found some screenshots in Flickr that shown some virtual sceneries made with VRML. This made me search for the author of these 3D worlds, and I found Grita Internet, a Spanish agency that designs virtual environments in this language. ...
Filter Forge was covered deeply in a previous post, that you should read to learn about this excellent tool for worldbuilders and 3D modelers. I own a copy of Filter Forge and I was quickly interested in this news. Seems that you can now request an…
This time Life On Line show helps to celebrate the launch of Second Pride, a week-long festival in the virtual world Second Life celebrating Gay Pride. We catch up with co-founder of the virtual world Twinity and learn about their exciting…
Shapeways has published an excellent tutorial on how to reduce the number of polygons of your 3D models, so you get a model that looks the same but has less file size (for Internet use), and less hardware requirements. The tutorial tells how to use…
Metaplace is now on open beta and you can sign up and create your worlds and games. It is a web-based virtual worlds platform with isometric point of view, cartoon like. For users of Second Life, remember that Myrl recently informed us about a chat…
The Koinup group of Hiperia3D News this week features "Metropolis – SL", by RockerFaerie. This is filled with nostalgia of Metropolis, the film from 1927 (Fritz Lang). As all the creations by RocketFaerie, it has a superb combination of…
Join Koinup this Thursday 14th of May at 11.00 am SLT on the Orange Island Photo Gallery for an introduction to the FilterCam HUD. The FilterCam HUD is a tool to make your photos inside SL more appealing without any need of post-production. ...
Koinup is proud to announce Rocking the Metaverse , the 1st Crossworld Music Tour powered by Koinup and sponsored by Koinup, Reaction Grid, Twinity, Orange Island, Metaplace.
Rocking the Metaverse is the first multiworld music show, aimed at…
It seems that P2P is being internationally limited by different countries, and forced to respect copyright law. Legislations seem still very immature. Let’s see the consequences that this may have. The European law against bad use of P2P networks…
VirtualBox is an open source application developed by Sun Microsystems that allows you to install and run an operative system inside another. VirtualBox is being featured in many computer magazines these days. Photo by Vmario This free (GPL)...
Kambi VRML Engine Improvements Kambi VRML Game Engine continues improving, and the new features are now available through nightly builds. They include 3D textures, new extensions for VRML/X3D worlds that provide projective textures and shadow maps,...
If you’re a Poser user you may know that its library of models can become a complete mess and a torture for you. Advanced Library is a freeware application that solves this problem. When you use Poser, all your models, hairs, poses and other things are…
The new episode of Life On Line is out. Now focuses on cybercrime and gambling addiction. "We talk with a prominent lawyer specializing in cybercrime. He offers advice on how to protect ourselves from identity theft or other cybercrimes. ...
Maker Faire is a two-day, family-friendly event to MAKE, create, learn, invent, CRAFT, recycle, think, play and be inspired by celebrating arts, crafts, engineering, food, music, science and technology. It is an incredibly fun and creative event for…
Now you can print your models in 3D with colored materials with Shapeways in 3 colors.
Shapeways is now able to print your 3D models in 3 colors: Limestone, Terracotta, or Blue Jeans Blue. http://www.shapeways.com/ With the cool, naturalistic…
Seamless3D is a free open source software available under the MIT license, a modeling and animation tool that builds avatars and worlds in X3D. Now the 2.148 is out, alongside with the new Lucy avatar, that is available in both smls (which can be…
Photoshop is a tool widely used by all those who prepare textures or backgrounds for 3D or virtual worlds. Finding good Photoshop tutorials is hard, but now you have a specialized search engine. There are not all the ones, but there are many and good: ...
Twinity Launches New Gaming Lounge Today !!! Twinity opens B-Zone, a new 3D gaming lounge inside their virtual world. Situated at Alexanderplatz in virtual Berlin, it’s the perfect place for online games aficionados to hang out and meet likeminded…
The Orbita Mouse is a very original and revolutionary concept of computer input device, that has some advantages for 3D.
This device is handled this way: you can move the cursor the same way as with a traditional mouse, and squeeze it for right…
Our initiative to ask VRML and X3D support in O3D has been very successful, and has been followed by many other proposals from other people that are of similar content. Click this screenshot to see the results: p7u8b3g4e9n5w1z0
The Koinup group of Hiperia3D News keeps growing, and has reached 102 members that have submitted 105 videos. So this makes me think that maybe the number of videos showcased will need to be bigger. I am also thinking in interviews to machinima…
Balsamiq Mockups is an application that is specially good to create drafts of things like a software application, a website, or anything. Balsamiq Mockups is an standalone application that can be run offline, and runs on Mac, Windows…
I have tested O3D. Here are some screenshots of the (for now) best scenery that is now available, the beach. The player installs in less than 1 minute under broadband connection. Then you can go and test the demos: ...
More Twitter Messages: bunchofstring: @xamox O3D will not reach mainstream b/c there’s still not enough demand for a 3d markup language. Remember VRML? The world isn’t ready.
LieberJosh: @ajturner It does surprise me…
The new O3D platform that Google is building is being profusely mentioned on Twitter, and so is VRML. There’s a lot of talking about the two. And our initiative to ask VRML and X3D support in O3D is going well. In this moment, there are 29 votes…
Google has released a plugin for all the major browsers and operative systems, that seems to be a rival for Mozilla Khronos. Today Google made public a series of informations about a new project called O3D. In the words of their developers, it is: ...
You can subscribe to this event and get more information about it in Myrl: Go To Read it on Myrl !!! "Awareness and Getting United" is the theme of this first European MetaMeets for residents in SL. 2009 will be the year to raise…
The new episode of Life On Line is out. In this episode, they report on Sony’s newest online offerings, the new rival to World Of Warcraft, and SpaceJunky performs ‘Killer Coat’. There’s also a talk with one of the creators of the new virtual…
Art Of Illusion is a 3D modeler that stands out for its extreme ease of use, in addition to having very powerful and flexible modeling tools. Moreover, it has many plugins that extend its capabilities. In the future, a list of related websites and…
This article is about a different virtual world. It turns you into a deer that roams an endless forest of stunning beauty. In The Endless Forest you are a deer that wanders into an enormous forest, just enjoying its beauty. You can interact with other…
As announced in the previous article, Hiperia3D has founded a machinima group in Koinup to feature the works of outstanding machinima directors. The members of the group are growing and works are already being submitted. Some of them were already…
Now you’ve got a new group at Koinup in which you can submit your machinima videos to be featured at our website. Join and recommend any machinima video you like, let it be yours or just your favorites. You can submit as many videos as you like, and…
FreeSpin3D enables the importing of 3D Models directly into Adobe Flash as a Flash MovieClip object. It has timeline support, an easy to use "no 3D code" control panel and an extensive Action Script interface. Visit the gallery and see…
This week’s machinima is a documentary directed by draxtor, that visualizes the writings of The California Legacy Project at Santa Clara University, dedicated to preserving California’s unique culture through our book series, our radio productions,...
3DXplorer’s Study on Enterprise Immersive Internet For Business 3dxplorer is sponsoring a new survey called "Enterprise Immersive Internet Business Value Study" conducted by ThinkBalm, focused on work-related use of virtual worlds and…
This is a cheap software ($18) that can create 2d sprites from your 3d models. And you may ask, why do you need 2D sprites? For example, for Flash games. Suppose that you have many 3D models, and someone asks you to create some flash game graphics….
The new poll for Hiperia3D News is a feedback poll. So if you’re a regular reader, cast your opinion, that is highly valued. Online Surveys & Market Research The reason to do this poll is because I am thinking in adding some new regular…
It has been a long time since the last poll was started. It was about what kind of virtual worlds did you prefer. And these are the results: As you can see, as the most usual topics for everyone’s favorite virtual worlds where given as…
Project Wonderland is a 100% Java and open source toolkit for creating collaborative 3D virtual worlds. Within those worlds, users can communicate with high-fidelity, immersive audio, share live desktop applications and documents and conduct real…
All members of The3dStudio.com can now use this a new free blogging tool, fully customizable. Bloggers will be able to network their blogs and share traffic. In addition they can have free advertising and link with The3dStudio.com website. Blog topics…
Unless we think, as in a popular movie, that "Death is only the beginning", computer languages don’t die, as long as people continue using them. Contrary to what many people think, a computer language is not "dead" or…
Solipsis is a free P2P platform for virtual worlds that can support a massive number of users online. Here in Hiperia3D News we have introduced other similar platforms. For example, remember VastPark, which recently launched their player application,...
Now you can be the winner of a JavaFX Coding Challenge and win $25,000. There are also other prizes: 10,000 and 5,000 dollars, and also up to 100 honorable mention prizes of a $25 Amazon Gift certificate will be rewarded. Read the rules here. Contest…
The first publicly available version of the open source game platform Eden is out, and you can download it here: Download Eden 0.1.0 Alpha Funtrench has also published a guide for the install in their site, and their plans to develop a plugin for our…
Shapeways has added a new way to sculpt your 3D models: now you can do ice sculptures. The sculptures come packed in a special way to prevent it from melting. p7u8b3g4e9n5w1z0
The new episode of our partner Life On Line is out. In this edition of Life On Line, Jax Streeter performs ‘Superstar Avatar’ and Steve interviews the creator of ExitReality, a system of turning any website into a 3D environment that uses VRML. ...
This week’s Koinup’s machinima are in fact two: "Flo Rida – Jump Ft. Nelly Furtado", a music video clip by samanthabiel., and "The Dream With In", a surreal video by FreetaKayo. Choose what you want to see depending on your mood,...
Filter Forge is offering a 30% discount on all their editions. Get it now and build hundreds of seamless textures of high quality for all your 3D models. Filter Forge is an application that works as a VERY HUGE library of filters and texture…
Shapeshop is a free application to model in 3D using blobs, that are like bubbles or balls of clay. This video shows what it does:
The way to model may feel strange at the beginning and gets better results if you use a graphics tablet, but once…
VastPark has released their first version for their Player. VastPark is a free (and in most of their products also open source) platform for virtual worlds. The server, the player, the SDK, the applications for creating worlds are free. There is plenty…
Koinup has partnered with the developer Deep Semaphore to bring to you the first Second Life Comics Contest. You can go and join the group Second Life Comics Contest and enter the contest to win 10,000 Linden Dollars. Once you join, you will be able…
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Koinup’s machinima of this week features Chakryn forest. I could not resist to select this one because Chakryn forest is one of my favorite worlds in Second Life. It is directed by CarlaBroek and is called "Peaceful Heart". Peaceful Heart -...
MixED features 3 artists in their 6th exhibition, opening on march 25: Jean-Yves Amir, Valery Grancher, and Jacinto Costoso. The topic of this exhibition will be " Painting and Web ". The exhibition will be open from march 25 , during 3…
Shapeways has announced that their most popular material, White, Strong and Flexible is now 10% cheaper. This is not a temporary discount but a permanent discount. These days, Shapeways also announced other interesting news for us all: A Blender…
Some news have just appeared about the new project of Mozilla: Khronos, another "open, royalty-free standard" for 3D on Internet. I can recommend you some external articles this project, to not bore you describing the same as others: CNet…
This week, a new game development platform will be available. Python programmers will be able to build 3D games that will be playable in your browser. FunTrench is a technology company that creates 3D development technologies for rapid application…
This short machinima shows a concept of architecture that reacts to the user proximity and presence. May this one day become real? p7u8b3g4e9n5w1z0
Vizup is a professional tool that can optimize your OBJ 3d models and vrml models reducing the number of polygons. It can do this in a very simple way, as this application is the easiest of all that has ever been. You simply click a button to calculate…
New CG Learning Resources Site Realtime Arts, a creative agency providing professional computer graphics production and training services, today announced the launch of Digital Arts Guild, an online source of high quality learning resources for…
Version 3.0 of Alltop is out today, and adds the ability for people to create custom collections of Alltop feeds, called MyAlltop.
The websites that appear on Alltop are selected on quality criteria by hand. Hiperia3D News has the…
This week’s selected machinimas are in fact two. The first is this awesome video created within SL to showcase the work of the artist AM radio. It’s author is Nitwacket. AM Radio – Second Life – HD – a Second Life Machinima by Nitwacket on Koinup …
FastStone Image Viewer is a freeware application to browse images in folders, that has the interesting feature of being able to generate bump maps (through the menu option Edit/Other Effects/Bump Map). Here’s an example:
These bump maps may be…
The new episode of Life On Line is out today March 15th and you can watch it from our sidebar. "Life On Line’s new edition is focused on recent developments in Tibet where news is hard to come by. SpaceJunky dedicates the song Temple of Love…
The Renderosity Store Staff shop has lowered their prices by 50% until 3/26/09 because they’re moving their offices. You have less than 2 weeks to get many high quality products for 3D for a ridiculous amount of money. I am very surprised for the huge…
The Koinup machinima video of this week is produced by ViveVoom. This is the edition footage from The Blue Planet live show, directed by Saskia Boddeke and author Peter Greenaway. Design, filming and editing by Luca Lisci. The Blue Planet edition…
This week’s interview features Life On Line, the new virtual TV show that wants to reflect the enormous diversity of the online experiences of so many people that each day discover a brand new world online, and how we live our lives in the Internet. ...
AccuTrans 3D is a very cheap software, only $20. It has lots of tools, including polygon reduction, but what I see as the most valuable feature is that it can convert between many 3D file formats. See the list here. When converting, it respects…
Shapeways has just launched a free online application that turns digital photographs into 3D printable objects. With Photoshaper we have empowered the average consumer to…
"Shapeways really makes 3D creation fun, easy and available for everyone.DAZ3D is going nuts and offering exaggerated discounts on their products. Go, join and get all this, just in the following 72 hours. Buy Carrara 3D Express now and get the new version for free when it comes out later this month.
If you...Using the PROTO construct, VRML can be extended using the native nodes to create others. These 4 resources for VRML PROTOs are some of the good sources that are still available in Internet. They could be easily converted to X3D in classical vrml encoding…
This freeware tool can generate ivy and grow it as you like over a 3D model. You can stop its growing when you like, and you simply click where you want it to start growing (you seed it) and look how it grows at accelerated speed. Remember to not let…
The new viewer for Openlife is out and is mandatory to enjoy the improvements in the Openlife Grid. Download it here.
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The machinima video of this week, offered by our partner Koinup, is the trailer of Zero Hour, a new series that will be on Metaverse TV this April 2009, directed by Robustus Hax.
The trailer looks very intriguing, so we’ll be following the…
Engage! Expo Engage! Expo will have as opening speakers: Teemu Huuhtanen, Executive VP, Marketing and Business Development, Sulake (Haboo) and Jack Buser, Director of PlayStation Home, Sony Computer Entertainment America (SECA). ...
Vivaty Now On Firefox A Vivaty add-on is now available for Firefox. As said in Vivaty Blog, you install it and then you can enter Vivaty, send gifts, edit your avatar, etc from your browser, no matter where in Internet you are. Go and grab the…
Altadyn, the company that develops 3DXplorer, the plugin-less platform for 3D meetings and virtual worlds, is becoming the main choice for businesses, and now also for government and institutions.
The Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds…
VBS.TV contacted us some days ago to talk about the new technology video-series called Motherboard, that are of great interest for all of us who love technology and the fun and strange stories behind it. The inaugural chapters are centered on Richard…
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Life On Line will launch their new episode on March 1. This is what our partner says that you’ll see in this chapter: "Holograms, the trouble with Twitter, Twinity machinima contest, Australian bushfires plus more music and news Life On Line,...
DAZ3D is offering high savings on the render and building tool Carrara, and Poser7, for Platinum Club Members. The following explanations are mostly as simplification, but I think that this is the best way to understand if you’re not deeply in these…
LithUnwrap is a freeware application that can help you to develop professional 3D models. With it, you can adjust a texture to the faces of your models. This is called UV mapping, and that’s what LithUnwrap is for. It has automatic adjustment of…
Here comes the machinima video of the week, offered by our partner, Koinup. This week I couldn’t choose only one, so here you are two videos. One is a dance video (Super Dancers In Second Life, by Ai_Miles) and the other is a fun car robbery with an…
Torley Linden has posted a video tutorial that explains how Flickr Set Manager works: the application auto-generates sets based on criteria like tags. If you upload new pictures that fit the criteria, they’ll automatically be added to the set on the next…
Hiperia3D News has partnered with Life On Line to offer you the latest episodes as they appear. If you look in our sidebar, you’ll find the Life On Line latest episode. When a new episode is launched, it will be automatically updated and you’ll be…
Maps Of Second Life is a new Flickr group created by Olivia Hotshot. Its purpose is to gather maps of Second Life of all kinds. If you have an interesting map of SL, you can go there, join and share it. If you’re looking for maps, join and watch…
Bob Crispen is the author of The VRML Works. This is an huge portal that is really worth reading, as he recopilated a big amount of tutorials, historical information, etc about VRML.
“The sacred head of Bob”
The tutorials about VRML Scripts that...Most of you may have a blog. For some it may be a profession, or a valuable tool for communication with your public or customers. In this article I introduce you to Windows Live Writer, that is now approaching its final release. It is one of the best…
Koinup, our partner, brings you the machinima video of the week. This time it’s “Atmosphere”, by Tagalas, a machinima of Oriental inspiration, made with Kingdom of Sand (Second Life), Assasins Creed and Gothic 3. <a…
ImageSorter is a freeware application that can do something useful for you, specially if you have lots of images in your folders: sort them by color. For example, I have lots of textures. I need a texture in blue, but I’m not sure what one. I go to my…
Live On Line is a new internet TV program that has launched in these days and is about how people spend their lives online. This TV show is a project of Steve Cropper, who in 2008 was ‘Angelico Babii’, host of the LATE SHOW on Metaverse-TV…
Google Chrome For Mac Google Chrome will be soon available for Mac. Read it here.
Hiperia3D News Partners With Koinup Hiperia3D News partnered with Koinup to offer you the best machinima videos. Read it here. Here’s a very fun machinima…
Here’s a quick note of what you can do in virtual worlds that has to do with Saint Valentine’s day. SceneCaster has prepared a special scene that you can customize and send it as digital postcard. You can go to Openlife Xchange and…
I have excellent news for all our readers. In answer to my call for suggestions on machinima videos, I was contacted by Pierluigi Casolari (owner and founder of Koinup). As a result of our communications, Hiperia3D News has partnered with Koinup to…
Myrl Connect is a lightweight application that allows you to link up your avatar with your Myrl web profile. What will it do? This; It will track how much time have you been online. It will display where you are inworld. It will…
As the presence of machinima movies between virtual worlds and 3D fan is enormous, Hiperia3D News will feature machinima videos that reach a decent quality. For those who don’t know, machinima are, in simple words, animation videos that use game…
Rick Kimball is the developer of ABNet, a free platform for VRML/X3D multiuser worlds. On February 6 MixED organizes a meeting there, so now it’s time to meet this formidable programmer and read in his own words how is ABNet from inside. ...
Poser World celebrates its 10th year anniversary and has interesting offers and freebies for this occasion. These may be interesting for many 3D artists, worldbuilders and 3D modelers. Free Poser Content DVD’s This offer is valid on volume 1 (2.4…
Chisel is a Java application that can optimize your VRML code. Optimizing is modifying the code so it runs faster and size of file is reduced without loosing quality. For example, an unoptimized file can load 200 KB before Chisel acts, and 18 KB after,...
One common task that most of us need to do is to compare the content of files and folders, to know what was added or modified, when, and how. Compare Suite is a software that helps you to do this. The usefulness of this kind of applications is proved,...
In a previous article I show you the video of Erny’s Matrix, that showcased a gallery of worlds made with VRML. MixED is now focusing on showing some galleries that are already on the Internet and you can see also another galleries on their site, like…
CG Textures is a resource where you can find many high quality textures in big sizes, FOR FREE. You’re allowed to use them in renders, games, or any project. The only thing that you can’t do is to re-distribute them. You may use them for commercial and…
Montreal, Quebec; January 28, 2009 Spread 3D art across the internet: having become the destination site for 3D artists looking to show off their artwork in 3D, Presto3D.com extends these frontiers by allowing 3D previews to be embedded anywhere on the…
ReactionGrid is an OpenSim grid. For those not familiar with OpenSim, it is similar to Second Life. ReactionGrid is having a big growth in the last times, and uses to host many events for businesses and software developers. But for all publics, they…
Brainstorming Tool In OpenSim Virtual Worlds News has published a very interesting article about the use of OpenSim for Brainstorming. Here you can see a video showing the analyzed tool: Make your themes for iGoogle Now you can have…
This is a collection of some useful sites that you may not know. They contain code snippets and may help in coding and learning Java. RoseIndia http://www.roseindia.net/java/ Perfect for beginners…
Photo by fleurdumal71 Biturn is a lightweight tool for viewing 3D models in many popular file formats like OBJ and LWO, DirectX, and many others like Milkshape, Truespace, Rhinoceros, Blitz3D, Halflife, Quake… Sometimes one needs a fast way to preview and browse your 3D…
MixED has featured the works of some popular and skilled VRML builders, including Erny. Here’s the video of his stunning Matrix. Entering Erny’s Matrix of worlds is something that no one should miss. If you don’t have the Blaxxun plugin for VRML,...
Nurien Software, a leading developer and operator of social networking and online gaming services, today announced that it has closed US$10 million in Series A-1 funding from four leading U.S. and China VC firms: Northern Light Venture Capital (NLVC),...
Twinity is growing day by day, and keeps a very active agenda of events, in which you can participate and take part in the virtual life of this universe. Twinity purpose is to become a mirror world that simulates the real world, with sceneries that…
Web3D Consortium: The Consortium developed both VRML and X3D languages and supports great tools like Xj3D, has support forums that are really worth joining. Hosts all the official docs for the language specifications and showcases the most remarkable…
Here you are some places in which you can sell the 3D models that you have built, and get some $ back for your effort.
The 3D Studio The3dStudio.com is one of the most veteran and largest 3D resource sites on the Internet, in which you can…
Lively, that has officially disappeared, has returned, in the shape of a Newlively. I knew this through Len Bullard’s blog. Lively users may be happy because some people have created a Lively clone, that tries to be as much similar to it as possible. ...
I think we could start the new year sharing some good things that I’ve found while browsing, so this is better than just saying "happy New Year". A 3D Desktop For Your PC 3DNA Makes possible for you to have a 3D desktop, that is like a…
The community of Revemonde, that hosts many of the worlds of the best VRML worldbuilders, offers a free server to which you can connect your worlds, and take them online again. This server has been called Outside. http://outside.revemonde.net/ As the…
Free Theater For ActiveWorlds MaxPoly of Virlands Systems offers you a theater for ActiveWorlds, so you can organize theatrical productions with ease. You can check the free product here. DAZ’s Michael And Victoria 4 For Free These two top…
Music for your web page, commercial or personal project, and virtual world, for free, as long as you recognize the authorship. You may have noticed that there are some minor changes in our sidebar and articles. One of them is the addition of a text…
These are sites that are named "brainy" because they make you think about things that are unusual, exciting, or just plain fun for all those who enjoy squeezing their brain mass. These are my top 5: A VR Geek Blog: This blog shows the…
Just a quick note: Paris Hilton will host a 3D party using ExitReality tomorrow December 31. Read the details and enter the 3D world from here:
http://www.bongovirusnye3d.com/
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Cobalt is a free and open source virtual world browser and construction toolkit, based on Croquet. Cobalt is currently in alpha phase, and will enter in beta in Summer 2009. Cobalt is a free and open source metaverse browser and construction…
Realtime Arts, a creative agency providing professional computer graphics production and training services, announced on December 15, 2008, its formation as a limited liability company (LLC). The agency serves the virtual worlds, serious games and visual…
realXtend is a free open source virtual world platform with which you can create your own applications using it as a base.
There are 2 main products in this platform: The realXtend viewer, that is GPL licensed. The server, that is BSD…
AWSource has an Information room that is focused on the metaverse, and contains blogs and links to many kinds of resources. This world is free and open to the public, and has no limit on simultaneous users, thus being a very good place to hold meetings. ...
This is a list of some of the best freeware that is available out there for 3D. Many of them are open source, and other are freeware applications. They provide a way to start familiarizing with 3D with no cost, and some are really valuable tools for 3D…
Darius Lahoutifard is the CEO of Altadyn. Altadyn’s products, and specially 3DXplorer, have taken a strong position in the market, specially when applied to corporate and business uses, due to the stability and robustness of the solutions they provide. ...
As a Netbeans Community Partner, Hiperia3D News is proud to announce and offer you a list of news and resources for Netbeans IDE 6.5, so you get a good introductory knowledge and a general view of its potential. Netbeans IDE 6.5 is available for…
Nurien, Stunning Graphics Nurien is a new virtual worlds platform that makes intensive use of Nvidia Geforce 8 Series to show stunning avatars, animation and graphics. Of course, it needs lots of resources. Anyway, don’t let the videos impress…
These are some of the screenshots taken on the JavaFX event in wich Sun’s Danny Coward, Chief Architect, Sun’s Client Software was interviewed by Jonathan Erickson (see this article) Browse the other photos on Hiperia3D’s Flickr photostream. All…
eDimensional is a hardware company that is focused on products that are appealing for people like us, who love 3D and virtual reality. This Christmas, they are lowering their prices so you can buy high quality products at a very cheap cost. Here you…
PS Home is going to enter on open beta today December 11. This has been long awaited and announced because, for some, it may be the only competitor to Second Life that may take a big portion of the market. There’s already a photo group centered on PS…
Sun’s Danny Coward, Chief Architect, Sun’s Client Software will be interviewed by Jonathan Erickson, Editorial Director of Dr. Dobb’s Journal in Second Life, live from Devoxx in Belgium. The interview will be about JavaFX, the new platform for building…
Flip Mino HD is the smallest HD video camera in the world. This means that this new gadget can record your favorite memories in high definition video that can be displayed in panoramic widescreen TV. Flip Mino HD can record high definition video (HD)...
You can submit your Web 3D art to these galleries and get it promoted and showcased for all the world to see. Don’t doubt that this is a great way of getting a good reputation as a Web 3D artist.
MixED, The Collective 3D Gallery: It is conceived as a…
As there have been some references to Augmented Reality in the last times, I think this news release may be of interest of many of you: LOS ANGELES ( November 26, 2008 ) – Augmented reality among the most interactive new digital tools available to…
Netbooks are the third kind of computer that you may have. They are small computers that seem a laptop but are not too much bigger that your hand. They are small, light, not expensive, and allow you to take them with you in a very comfortable way. ...
One of our readers, known as Oriste, has posted important information in the comments the previous article: "The Livelyzens (Lively users) are coming together to appeal to Google to keep Lively alive.
Lively is a great platform for…
My colleague Bruce Lehmann, the Administrator of WBandD, told me that Lively was going to disappear from the virtual worlds scene. This December 31, 2008 Lively will be shut down, as you can read on their official web site. For worldbuilders, this…
Announcing the $10,000 Linden Prize The Linden Prize will award one Second Life Resident or team with $10,000 USD, paid in Linden dollars, for an innovative in-world project that improves the way people work, learn and communicate. Send your…
Altadyn, the developer of 3DXplorer, today announced the release of its new product, Online Meeting, included in its newest update of 3DXplorer, version 4.2.
This new release allows you to share your desktop, and organize webinars, web…
This is the video of the 2008 CY Awards of ActiveWorlds, that has been posted to the Association of Virtual Worlds today by MaxPoly of Virlands.
Find more videos like this on Association of Virtual Worlds
Enjoy the video and wait for…
ActiveWorlds celebrated the CY Awards (Community Awards) yesterday, as announced here some time ago. The most comparable event in the real world is the Oscars Ceremony. You may find many similarities.
It was a very exciting event. It…
Room Arranger: Very affordable program for designing floor plans, with the possibility of watching them in 3D and make it an interactive visit in VRML. Costs only $20.
SwirlX3D: Interactive X3D editor that displays the scenes as they are built. It has…
Clive Jackson is the CEO and Founder of Pelikan Crossing, the company behind two revolutionary products: Blink3D and inDuality.
Blink3D is a platform for creating multi-user Web based virtual worlds and 3D environments, that allows you to…
Most of us who like 3D and virtual worlds, also feel a special attraction to technology gadgets. Virtual worlds suggest something that is at the same time related to worlds of fantasy and freedom, and also related to a very futurist vision. That’s why…
3DXplorer Altadyn keeps on surprising us with new releases of 3DXplorer. I was recently in one of their tech webinars and really enjoyed its features. 3DXplorer will soon add a new feature: you will be able to share any application, or your desktop…
ActiveVOS is one of the best examples of orchestration systems for enterprises and developers. It can really improve their performance when dealing with complex applications. To understand the real value of such a system for your business, we need to…
Lately, I have read recent articles about applications of augmented reality that are rather practical and useful for real life. Worth a visit and reading, these articles are really descriptive and contain videos: RayBan glass testing in AR virtual…
Today, Vivaty has launched “Vivaty Everywhere”: now you can embed your virtual scene into any blog, site, brand or online destination.
This is the press release for this product:
MENLO PARK, Calif, October 29, 2008Vivaty Inc., today launched Vivaty…
Blender is one of the most popular open source and free 3D creation suites.
Many professionals use Blender in their daily work, for architecture, movies, or 3D modeling and animation in general.
Blender is a very powerful tool that can give you…
Virtual Worlds Conference is now known as Engage! Expo. The call for speakers is now open. Check all the related info here.p7u8b3g4e9n5w1z0
I discovered through Second Arts that Gore Suntzu is going to make an exhibition of beautiful shapes and effects in Chakryn Forest, which is one of the most beautiful natural landscape scenarios of Second Life.
It will be from October 23 to November 16,...
David Perry And Games You should read this post at Myrl, that will lead you to a brilliant presentation delivered by the game designer David Perry (Earthworm Jim, MDK, Messiah).
Lord British Goes To Space Richard Garriott, the creator of Ultima (the…
You would not like to miss the Halloween party at Vivaty this weekend. Recently, Vivaty has added many Halloween content for this celebration and other horror-themed meetings.
The social scene where you can meet with your Vivaty friends is called…
A subscription is a FREE service to keep you updated. And, simplifying, a feed is a file that updates when something new is added to a website.
These files tell you about things like: new posts in a blog, new photos on Flickr, new videos uploaded to…
Ferdinand Heilenz, widely known as Erny, is one of my favorite VRML worldbuilders, and one of the best worldbuilders out there.
It is unusual that one person combines artistic taste with technical dexterity. Maybe they are governed by different regions…
This is a cheatsheet that contains the most used keyboard shortcuts in Second Life.
Download it clicking the image or through this link:
Second Life Keyboard Shortcuts Cheatsheet
Use the PDF file for a high quality print, and to have the cheatsheet…
This guide to teach you the basics of Second Life use. As a quickstart guide, it has a very spartan format. I don’t try to teach everything, but provide a fast way to start visiting virtual worlds and converse with people in them.
Photo by…
Altadyn is hosting a series of 3DXplorer free webinars of two types: business and technical. They’ll be in two possible languages: English and French.
They will take place on Tuesday afternoon. English webinars will be held starting at 2:00 pm and 3:00…
Virtual Worlds London In SL Virtual Worlds London, that will be on 20-21 October 2008, will have a parallel event that consists in the following: the folks at Virtual London in SL are having a party in Real London, Social in The Greyhound, Kensington,...
Hiperia3D News is a Netbeans Community Partner, in recognition for developing the X3DV Module Suite and contributing to the promotion of Netbeans.
So it’s an honor for me to announce that Netbeans celebrates its 10th birthday. They will highlight…
Intelligent Bot Elbot, brainchild of Fred Roberts at Artificial Solutions in Germany, won the Loebner Prize for artificial intelligence that is awarded to the chatbot that shows more conversational skills. The winer is the bot that is more easily…
MakeHuman: Make human models with ease. Pose them and modify all their parts. A free tool. Exports to COLLADA and OBJ.
Room Arranger: This affordable tool became very popular because it can export as VRML so you can design a floor plan of a room and…
Stereoscopic vision is what we, as animals with two eyes, have.
If you were a cyclops, you won’t have stereoscopic vision. What it would mean to you? That you may be unable to perceive depth. You would miss the z coordinate, and only x and y would…
Bruce Lehmann is the Founder and Administrator of WBandD (which I co-administer with him), a community for worldbuilders that is focused on VRML and X3D, but also welcomes any other platform. Is a good start point for those who don’t know VRML/X3D, and…
The new X3D video courses that illustrate the techniques of the book “X3D: Extensible 3D Graphics For Web Authors” have been announced on Web3D Consortium and Len Bullard’s site.
These videos are free for you to see and are a support material for the…
Only 5 days last for the end of Carnival Of Evil contest. It’s a Halloween terror design contest, and you can submit to one of the following categories: 3D/Animation2D/PhotographyWriting The deadline for submitting entries is October…
A message to all members of Association of Virtual Worlds has arrived and says that they will be holding a second open house at the AVW’s virtual headquarters.
You can enter the headquarters through the image in Hiperia3D News’ sidebar, that links…
Myrl has been featured on BBC News, in the coverage that this important channel gave to Virtual Worlds Forum in London.
Francesco D’Orazio introduces the features of Myrl to the worldwide audience of BBC in the video that you can watch…
hiperia3d: I cannot explain in words what is Myrl… you have to see it yourself… http://www.myrl.com/
hiperia3d: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hiperia3d/
hiperia3d: uploaded many pics to Flickr, see them
hiperia3d: Vote Your Favorite Machinima Second Life Movie: I discovered through Myrl this Machinima contest of vid.. http://tinyurl.com/4gemr6
I discovered through Myrl this Machinima contest of videos from Second Life, in which you can vote your favorite.
See the news at Myrl, and don’t forget to myrl…
hiperia3d: 2 Second Life Contests: Win A Castle Or A Book!: Steampunk Contest Koinup organizes this contest that c.. http://tinyurl.com/3geuga
hiperia3d: The Annotated VRML Reference 2.0 Manual: The Annotated VRML 2.0 Reference Manual is a book that contain.. http://tinyurl.com/3juu7w
Steampunk Contest
Koinup organizes this contest that consists in that you, as citizen of Second Life, send a photo until October 16, that has Steampunk as main style. Visit the contest here.
The winners will be announced on October 25th here and...The Annotated VRML 2.0 Reference Manual is a book that contains, as its title says, all the documentation of VRML 2.0, plus notes from experts and curiosities. These notes tell you secrets on how to make the most of your VRML knowledge.
I was given this…
hiperia3d: Have you tried TweetBeep yet? It’s like Google Alerts for Twitter, and it’s free! I love it! http://tweetbeep.com
hiperia3d: Interview: Mark Hull, Vice President Of Product Management Of Vivaty: Mark Hull is the Vice-President o.. http://tinyurl.com/4hywy2
hiperia3d: I joined Dipity
Mark Hull is the Vice-President of Products at Vivaty. He ran more than a dozen businesses at Yahoo! (including Groups, Photos and Personals), and also ran product management and marketing at iWin and MerchantCircle.
On his…
hiperia3d: News: Facebook Ban, SmallWorlds, Custom Content On Lively, And MuveMoot08: Facebook Bans People For Usi.. http://tinyurl.com/3fqpnt
Facebook Bans People For Using Second Life Names Facebook has started to ban people because it seems they don’t like that people use virtual names for their profiles. Read this in Reuters, Scobleizer, and the Secondlife Newspaper.
Facebook, SL Users do…
hiperia3d: Useful Time Zone Conversion Tool: We often have to attend to meetings in virtual worlds. Each of us are.. http://tinyurl.com/5y4r6e
hiperia3d: CY Awards 2008 In ActiveWorlds: CY Awards 2008; “A moment In Time”
The awards that are given in Acti.. http://tinyurl.com/4vr5ou
We often have to attend to meetings in virtual worlds. Each of us are in different parts of the world, so the time of these meetings is often expressed in GMT/UTC time, and others it is the local time of a specific country.
To convert that local time to…
CY Awards 2008; “A moment In Time”
The awards that are given in Activeworlds’ yearly gala event celebrating its citizens achievements in many different categories. As you can see in the page of the previous awars, there are categories like “Best Art”,...
hiperia3d: Alltop: Discover The Best Of The Best: Alltop is a new service that allows you to access, browse and vi.. http://tinyurl.com/4dr24n
Alltop is a new service that allows you to access, browse and visit the best content on many topics by listing their most recent articles.
Their websites are selected on quality criteria by hand. Hiperia3D News has the honor of being showcased in the 3D…
hiperia3d: Interview: Francesco D’Orazio, Myrl’s Founder and CEO: Francesco D’Orazio is the founder and CEO of Myr.. http://tinyurl.com/4srble
Francesco D’Orazio is the founder and CEO of Myrl, a social gateway for virtual worlds.
Myrl is a project that will be composed several different services. Their first product, the Social Gateway for Virtual Worlds, has been…
hiperia3d: @susanwu What song?
hiperia3d: Solution From Rory Hart Of Exit Reality To Protect Your Works: As you should know, Hiperia3D News disco.. http://tinyurl.com/4tsewu
As you should know, Hiperia3D News discovered a security flaw in ExitReality. Their search engine has already indexed the worlds and models of many VRML worldbuilders, without asking their previous permission. Read this here.
But Rory Hart, the Head of…
hiperia3d: Open House Meeting In The AVW Headquarters: The Association of Virtual Worlds will be holding an open h.. http://tinyurl.com/43c8ug
The Association of Virtual Worlds will be holding an open house at its virtual headquarters on the web at: http://www.associationofvirtualworlds.com/virtual_world.php
When? Today Wednesday, September 24, 2008 from 12:00 PM until 4:00 PM US Eastern…
hiperia3d: Sound Resources: SoundSnap: These sounds are free for any use, commercial or not. Very big library, sor.. http://tinyurl.com/4pqd23
SoundSnap: These sounds are free for any use, commercial or not. Very big library, sorted by categories. They are the source of sounds for many virtual worlds and 3d chat communities. The categories are organized in attractive icons, making navigation…
hiperia3d: The ExitReality problem with author recognition is becoming a snowball between VRML creators
hiperia3d: I hope ER fixes this soon, this is too dangerous
hiperia3d: Its title was “the worst of ExitReality”, but it is worser than I thought http://tinyurl.com/476etl
hiperia3d: The Worst Of ExitReality: Just entered ExitReality, and discovered that the 3D worlds of some of the be.. http://tinyurl.com/4ryp6z
Rory Hart, the Head of Development of ExitReality, has given an answer today in the comments of this article. They provide you two ways to prevent your objects and models to be incorporated to their search engine. Read this here.
As requested, I provide…
hiperia3d: Interview: Tony Parisi, Co-Founder And Chief Platform Officer Of Vivaty: Vivaty is one of the new platf.. http://tinyurl.com/3v6zqt
Vivaty is one of the new platforms that have bring 3D to social sites like Facebook or AIM. The difference of Vivaty is that they are focused on X3D and COLLADA, which are open standards, not proprietary formats.
When you build models and worlds in an…
hiperia3d: @Vivaty Immersive sounds mysterious and is cool. It can be immersive in a psychological way too (you are inside something that engages you)
hiperia3d: Created new account in Second Life, I’m Jordi Netizen there if any of you want to add me as contact
hiperia3d: How To Convert VRML To X3D By Hand: VRML and X3D are very similar, if you use the classic VRML encoding.. http://tinyurl.com/6fo52t
VRML and X3D are very similar, if you use the classic VRML encoding for VRML (the files with .x3dv extension). In fact, you can take any VRML file and convert it to X3DV following some simple steps.
Photo by Hegemonx.
Just do this:
1) Open the VRML…
hiperia3d: Virtual Reality Interfaces: Although in future posts I may cover deeper these technologies, here I intr.. http://tinyurl.com/6y9n6k
Although in future posts I may cover deeper these technologies, here I introduce you to some interesting virtual reality hardware that I’ve found while browsing.
3D Movement Tracking Camera This is a camera that tracks your movements and moves avatars…
hiperia3d: Interview: Michalis Kamburelis, Developer Of Kambi VRML Game Engine: VRML and X3D have obvious advantag.. http://tinyurl.com/4kqok3
hiperia3d: My condolences to all Americans for the anniversary of 11 S
VRML and X3D have obvious advantages for displaying 3D graphics on a network, but many worldbuilders also built many games in VRML, that were sometimes showcased at Eurographics.
Kambi VRML game engine is a is an open-source engine that is especially…
hiperia3d: Torley Linden Saint Day In Second Life: Torley Linden has created more than 200 video tutorials and is .. http://tinyurl.com/5jlzv3
hiperia3d: What Happened These Days In Virtual Worlds: What happened to virtual worlds between the end of August a.. http://tinyurl.com/5b8cja
Torley Linden has created more than 200 video tutorials and is a very important member of Second Life, part of the SL Staff, and also a great artist that finds the best places of SL and captures the beauty of this virtual world like no other.
For this,...
What happened to virtual worlds between the end of August and the first days of September? Many things, and here you are the most vital ones for virtual worlds users (and yes, for developers too).
In our will of making simple what is complex, here’s a…
hiperia3d: Interview: Dave Elchoness, Executive Director Of The Association Of Virtual Worlds: Dave Elchoness is t.. http://tinyurl.com/5prvgp
Dave Elchoness is the Executive Director of the Association of Virtual Worlds, which is becoming a never-seen phenomenon in the virtual worlds scene, gathering together the most remarkable professionals and platform leaders of the sector, and also the…
hiperia3d: @auradeluxe Tested it a bit, had to update it, and ran well on my FF3 that has lots of add-ons and with 4 tabs open
hiperia3d: The New Browsers: Google Chrome, Firefox 3, Internet Explorer 8: These days Chrome, a very lightweight .. http://tinyurl.com/6l6s7q
hiperia3d: Presto3D: Preview, Buy And Sell 3D Models: See it in 3D before you buy it: that is the founding idea of.. http://tinyurl.com/574sb7
hiperia3d: Presto3D is a remarkable company, take content developers rights with respect. A very good example for all businesses in the sector.
These days Chrome, a very lightweight web browser developed by Google, was released. Also, Internet Explorer 8 beta can be downloaded since the end of August. Firefox 3 v3.0 was also released in June.
These 3 new web browser have something in common: a…
hiperia3d: just received the press release
hiperia3d: new service to sell your 3D models: http://tinyurl.com/66f77l
See it in 3D before you buy it: that is the founding idea of Presto3D.com, a new marketplace for digital models launched today. In what could be considered a natural step forward, buyers of 3D models for animation, architecture, gaming, and other…
hiperia3d: @auradeluxe oh ok, I’ll try it in FF3
hiperia3d: @leunix Lots of activity in X3D these days. For example, Vivaty uses X3D as file format for worlds and avatars
hiperia3d: @auradeluxe Hi Tony. Vivaty runs in Chrome? That’s great. I use FF3, so I will try it too next days, as I also heard Vivaty runs on FF3
hiperia3d: Tested Chrome a little. It imports FF bookmarks and runs in 1 sec. Good…
hiperia3d: @leunix VRML is now X3D. It changed. It’s VRML on steroids.
hiperia3d: @Myrl Congrats Myrl for the new Myrl site!
hiperia3d: Five Events: Two Expos At Second Life, Three At MixED: Two Second Life events and 3 exhibitions at MixE.. http://tinyurl.com/6cktvs
Two Second Life events and 3 exhibitions at MixED have been added to our Calendar.
Animations & Gestures Expo: Date: September 20, 2008 from 11:00 PM to 11:45 PM
Location: Monogram Virtua Convention Center – Second…
hiperia3d: http://www.google.com/chrome Can’t live without Firefox, though. My FF looks like a submarine, full of buttons. Really geeky…
hiperia3d: Anyone tried the beta of Internet Explorer 8? Anyone dared?
hiperia3d: 9 Image And Texture Resources For 3D: Texture Map Of The Week: Although it has not been updated since y.. http://tinyurl.com/5dacnv
Texture Map Of The Week: Although it has not been updated since years ago, it has a big set of quality free textures. See the archive to watch and download them all. You can also watch a preview of render using each of the textures.
Absolute Cross…
hiperia3d: Free Blender Tutorials: Blender is one of the most preferred 3D modeling applications. I prefer much mo.. http://tinyurl.com/6gl3ze
Blender is one of the most preferred 3D modeling applications. I prefer much more Art Of Illusion, but I just can’t ignore that Blender is the favorite for many 3D artists.
Free Blender Tutorials
The tutorials come in PDF format, and include the…
hiperia3d: What is a Virtusphere?: A virtusphere is a virtual reality device that basically consists in a big sphe.. http://tinyurl.com/6994f3
hiperia3d: 2 Portals Of 3D Resources: Models And More: 3DVIA: Get 3d models in 3ds and other file formats, create .. http://tinyurl.com/58g827
hiperia3d: @davidburden Don’t forget to see Sagrada Familia and Park Guell!
hiperia3d: lot of work preparing them
hiperia3d: 7 interviews confirmed
hiperia3d: Many interviews with awesome people coming. Wait and see…
hiperia3d: @malburns Thanks Mal, you’re fantastic. I always read your twits
hiperia3d: SceneCaster Ads Immersive 3D Without Installing Anything: SceneCaster will launch on Friday August 22 a.. http://tinyurl.com/63huo6
hiperia3d: @Vivaty voted
hiperia3d: @mpesce Fluxbuntu is also good and easy for home servers
hiperia3d: Links: Vivaty Update, Punching And Much More: Vivaty Improvements: Dogs, Avatar Customizations And More.. http://tinyurl.com/64bjug
hiperia3d: @heidiperry1 just posted:http://news.hiperia3d.com/2008/08/links-vivaty-update-punching-and-much.html
hiperia3d: Wishing that winter comes and we will be not over 15 C degrees. I hate hot weather. Wishing a cold strong wind, and mountains.
hiperia3d: @Myrl that is great! will mirror those infos when published
hiperia3d: @Myrl can’t wait watching it
hiperia3d: How To Use Xj3D Library In Netbeans IDE: These are instruction on how to use Xj3D libraries in Netbeans.. http://tinyurl.com/6lrk57
hiperia3d: LivePlace Video Controversy And Photorealism: These days there were rumors that said that a new photore.. http://tinyurl.com/6jnv7g
hiperia3d: @mpesce Seems people try to find an arcane use for Twitter, but I think it’s just to see what people for whom you care about say
hiperia3d: News: IM For SecondLife, and AC3D: Instant Messenger For SecondLife?Linden Lab has registered the trade.. http://tinyurl.com/6xmozw
hiperia3d: News Of The Week And Other Links: There are a lot of things that happened or crossed our way this week… http://tinyurl.com/6gvpea
hiperia3d: @nsavides Good luck Nick. If you are going to showcase some of your excellent works, tell me and I’ll spread it.
hiperia3d: oh, have to quit, it’s late here. see you another day on vivaty
hiperia3d: some strange thing crashed my pc
hiperia3d: @Vivaty Thank you too
hiperia3d: going to everia
hiperia3d: Passing by Vivaty Social Scenes, to Rooftop Jovi
hiperia3d: @Vivaty Thanks to you Vivaty, Mark Hull and Megan. I really enjoyed this.
hiperia3d: Interview With Mark Hull, Vice-President Of Products At Vivaty: On August 6, Vivaty launched a new prog.. http://tinyurl.com/6lckbw
hiperia3d: preparing to publish interview with Mark Hull from Vivaty and what are Create and Studio
hiperia3d: Posted to Flickr: http://tinyurl.com/638gz7
hiperia3d: @alphabunny Check here: http://tinyurl.com/638gz7
hiperia3d: Latest News: Plugin-Less Virtual Worlds In 3DXplorer V4: The new version of 3DXplorer that was announce.. http://tinyurl.com/6hzour
hiperia3d: 3DXplorer V4: http://tinyurl.com/5z3c6e
hiperia3d: Soon images will also be in Flickr
hiperia3d: Preparing post about what I saw in private beta of 3DXplorer V4 (multiuser), and AVW worlds.
hiperia3d: @jeffsonstein I saw you’re in VR and 3D, I found your site very interesting, will check with more time
hiperia3d: @Vivaty I can tell this in my site to my visitors if you send me a note to my email info@hiperia3d.com
hiperia3d: ShapeWays 3D Design Challenge Contest: ShapeWays, mentioned in the previous post, organizes a contest f.. http://tinyurl.com/5pjagf
hiperia3d: @nsavides Completely agree with these. I wish this may be applied in all countries, in fact.
hiperia3d: Testing private beta of a promising 3d multiuser chat product
hiperia3d: @Vivaty Sunny and hot here
hiperia3d: Sculptures Of Your 3D Models: ShapeWays is a service in which you can purchase sculptures of your 3D mo.. http://tinyurl.com/6zagss
hiperia3d: @twitter the “report spam” may send an email to you, with the spammer acount ID and the message they sent to us.
hiperia3d: @twitter Feature suggestion:add a “Report Spam” button so one can suggest for review some account so you can detect spammers better
hiperia3d: @twitter Thanks for fixing the followers problem.
hiperia3d: My ISP provider company is a pain, or there are global connectivity problems?
hiperia3d: Caligari trueSpace 7.6 For Free And Much More: Caligari Corporation offers their 3D suite trueSpace 7.6.. http://tinyurl.com/5zfu5y
hiperia3d: @twitter Thank you Twitter
hiperia3d: @twitter Hello, I had 27 followers now I have 15. When will the process of restoration end?
hiperia3d: Thought Control On Your Wii Console: In a previous post, I talked about some hardware that reads your t.. http://tinyurl.com/6h94br
hiperia3d: http://iwantsandy.com/ personal digital assistant. Curious AI program
hiperia3d: @alphabunny I sometimes read that too, it has some that are fun
hiperia3d: blocked another spamer
hiperia3d: @alphabunny Hulk (the last one) is good
hiperia3d: Updated to Firefox 3
hiperia3d: @alphabunny Not yet. I liked the 1st one, not sure if 2nd is good. Did you?
hiperia3d: @javajoint LOL, Just now, blocked another spammer that has just joined and following 300!
hiperia3d: Spammers make things difficult for us all, both as creators and consumers of content
hiperia3d: @javajoint There are many spammers in Twitter nowadays ‘cos money-making bloggers encouraged their readers to use twitter
hiperia3d: @alphabunny I liked this post http://tinyurl.com/64kplu
hiperia3d: @javajoint All I know is this: http://twitspam.org/
hiperia3d: @malburns Thanks Mal
hiperia3d: @javajoint is easier to block them as they come
hiperia3d: @javajoint Dan I block spammers, I only accept people that really have something in common. There’s a website that lists the spammers, but
hiperia3d: @alphabunny thank you. vivaty is cool. I added it to my facebook too.
hiperia3d: @javajoint Thanks Dan!
hiperia3d: 6 Systems To Have Your Own 3D World (Last Part): We continue reviewing the latest systems to embed your.. http://tinyurl.com/5eg65s
hiperia3d: The last part of the multireview: http://tinyurl.com/6q5c5k
hiperia3d: 6 Systems To Have Your Own 3D World (First Part): The latest in 3D on Internet are what Bruce Damer cal.. http://tinyurl.com/64v6ap
hiperia3d: Virtual Worlds Timeline: I’ve embedded in the sidebar the Virtual Worlds Timeline in Dipity.com. You ca.. http://tinyurl.com/6gtwq5
hiperia3d: squeezed a post stealer, now increased security and copy detection thru code
hiperia3d: @mpesce Neanderthal boy reconstructed http://tinyurl.com/6lh4jf
hiperia3d: Do you think that there should be only one language or API for 3D? A monopoly for the web3d?
hiperia3d: Interesting discushttp://tinyurl.com/6qjmmj in my last post’s comments:
hiperia3d: 20 Technologies For 3D Worlds On The Web: Here’s a list of 20 software projects, some of them opensourc.. http://tinyurl.com/5u4vby
hiperia3d: Reviewed 6 ways to embed 3d on facebook and pages. Article will be published in next days
hiperia3d: Review coming soon.
hiperia3d: I am testing 6 different systems of embedding a 3D worlds inside facebook or your website.
hiperia3d: Art Of Illusion, Free 3D Modeling Software: Art of Illusion is the favorite 3D modeler of many people … http://tinyurl.com/58tf72
hiperia3d: Preparing review on system to have a 3d world on a webpage or facebook.
hiperia3d: @torley Today not, but tomorrow I have more free time for that.
hiperia3d: Contest In CyberNet Worlds: Design A T-Shirt: CyberNetWorlds appeared in the post about Six 3D Virtual .. http://tinyurl.com/6nato6
hiperia3d: AVW’s First Teleconference-Course: The Association Of Virtual Worlds organizes their first teleconferen.. http://tinyurl.com/57pu2t
hiperia3d: Mr.Phillip At MixED: These are some photos from the recent exhibition party of Mr. Phillip Sand Hansel .. http://tinyurl.com/5zdzzq
hiperia3d: @javajoint Co.mments http://co.mments.com/ is a service to track the comments you make in blogs so you don’t miss any of the replies
hiperia3d: @javajoint I would choose StumbleUpon, Twitter, Comm.ents, Dzone, del.icio.us, and Ning
hiperia3d: How To Start Drawing Vector Graphics http://tinyurl.com/56y958
hiperia3d: Street Painting In SecondLife: 3D Street Painting Art Exhibition At SecondLifeDays: From July 1, 208 at.. http://tinyurl.com/647y2e
hiperia3d: Six 3D Virtual Worlds Chats: Cybernet Worlds: Virtual universe based on ActiveWorlds software, but inde.. http://tinyurl.com/6p5kkm
hiperia3d: 50 Ways To Improve Your Software Project: You may be thinking in starting programming something, for wo.. http://tinyurl.com/5cgbuo
hiperia3d: Earning is good but selling just air with no substance harms us all