I got an email this morning from Goldie of Machinima by Silver & Goldie, producers of the machinima that has been at the center of the controversy here for the past week. She gave me the link to the newly revised video that replaces the one shown to the House Subcommittee. She apologized again for [...]

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Following the comment on this site from Catherine Smith, Marketing Director at Linden Lab, apologizing for the mistaken impression left by the voiceover in the video shown to the House Telecommunications & Internet Committee, I’ve been contacted by Goldie of Goldie and Silver, the company who produced the machinima. They are replacing some of the [...]

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The response to my previous article is the most activity this blog has seen yet. But I do need to make some clarifications, and highlight at least one thing that has happened as a result of the brouhaha.
First, I should not have made it sound as if I thought Linden Lab’s misattribution by allusion of [...]

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I was just watching the video of Rep. Ed Markey’s committee hearing yesterday about virtual worlds, during which Philip Rosedale (CEO of Linden Lab, creator of SecondLife®) and others testified. Rosedale showed a machinima that included images of several parts of the International Spaceflight Museum (ISM), of which I am a co-founder and CEO. That’s [...]

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I found this video on a networking site I’ve just joined, about some 3D software I wrote about here a couple of weeks ago, when this blog was brand spankin’ new, 3DXplorer. I left a note for the creator asking permission to link to it from here, but then I found out his video [...]

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Before starting on Project Wonderland, I thought I’d boot up WindowsXP (on my Mac’s Parallels virtual machine) to look at iClone2 and see if I can find out what kinds of formats it exports things to. Here’s what I’ve discovered so far.
Export Formats
bmp

24 bit
32 bit

jpg

sliding scale 0-100% quality

tga

24 bit
32 bit

gif

transparency

Obviously, these are 2D formats, [...]

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