First Post
Written on February 10, 2008 by Katherine W. Prawl
Welcome to new media on the go. Exactly what that means will be developed as we go (which is part of the self-referential meaning in itself), but for now I want to talk more about the new media aspect than the on the go part.
I just received a couple of new products from Reallusion® for review, iClone2 and 3DXchange2.
This intrigued me because I spend a lot of my time and effort participating in a corner of the metaverse called SecondLife™, and at least some of that time involves designing and “building” models of objects to populate that virtual world. Unfortunately, at this time it is not easy or perhaps not even possible to import models into SecondLife, but that may not always be the case, and anyway SecondLife is not the only virtual world out there. I also have an account on Qwaq, for instance, related to the work I am doing with the Qwaq-SL Liaison group in SecondLife. That in turn is related to some activities regarding the future of the metaverse, particularly with some researchers at Stanford’s Humanities Lab. That group is putting on a conference next weekend, called Metaverse U, which I am helping to bring into SecondLife.
Anyway, to get back to the software, I haven’t done much more than install all the elements, look at the website and press kit, and open it up for a first peek. 3DXchange is particularly interesting since it allows one to access the Google 3D Warehouse and import 3D models for use in iClone2. But I will look at it more closely in the days to come, and relate my impressions and experiences here.
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