Using a 3D virtual world is not often the first impulse of building designers and architects, but maybe it should be. Here’s one snapshot of a house that was designed in about four hours, right down to the hanging plants on the loggia. Clicking the image will download a presentation (PDF, about 11.5 MB) with [...]

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I was chatting with a friend on Twitter tonight, and happened to mention the Kira Café, an institute in Second Life. It has been some time since I visited Kira, and since their Play As Being group meets four times a day, around the clock, I decided to drop in and say hello, even though [...]

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Working on a forthcoming review of vReveal video enhancment software (for Windows®) has led me to learn more about both Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) and virtual machine (VM) applications …

Posted in 3D, Computers, Hardware, Linux, Models, OpenSolaris, Software, Video editing, Virtual Machines, Virtual Worlds, Windows 7, emulator, video card No Comments »

Oh, yes! This one could be really fun for bloggers and their readers, since a window into the world can be embedded in any web page. I’m talking about Metaplace, the latest in a long list of VWs (virtual worlds) I’ve dabbled in. My account (name: KatLemieux) is only a few hours old, so there’s [...]

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Longtime Scilands buddy, Hackshaven Harford, Twittered this week about a new app he’d found called Sparkle IM from Genkii. Sparkle is a virtual worlds (VW) client for the iPhone that allows the user to login and communicate via instant messages with friends, and via proximity chat with avatars that are in the same location. Sorry, [...]

Posted in Avatar, OSGrid, OpenSIM, SecondLife, Software, Twitter, Virtual Worlds, WiFi, iPhone, wireless 3 Comments »

This afternoon I had a call from Verizon‘s sales, following up on our recent purchase of one of their AirCards and data plan. I told the rep that while we had no technical problems with the setup, and were actually pretty happy with it, their 5 GB cap is completely inadequate. In fact, four days [...]

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As I type this, we are traveling through Denton, Texas on the way to Wichita Falls and points west. I’ve been able to read my email and look at Google Earth, both of which require an internet connection, and I even spent a bit of time in Second Life! We were still in the Dallas [...]

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I’ve just added a permanent page to this site, featuring a link to my “room” in Google’s new Lively virtual world. Please link to my Lively room and let me know what you think. Oh, sorry, but so far only MS Windows XP/Vista users can actually do that for now, but Google promises Mac software [...]

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I was just talking to Henrik Bennetsen at Stanford Humanities Lab about his project, Preserving Virtual Worlds. So much has been happening in the homebrew virtual worlds space that it’s hard to cover it all, but we exchanged some info about various sites we’ve each visited, and talked about the possible future of these exciting [...]

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Since my last post here, a lot has been accomplished. Last time I wrote, I was downloading the OpenSim server software to my external hard disk via SVN. That went well, but I have to admit that the instructions for compiling and running it on MacOS 1.5 were so daunting that I deferred that until [...]

Posted in 3D, Archives, Avatar, Format, LSL, MacOS X, OSGrid, Open Source, OpenLife, OpenSIM, SecondLife, Software, Virtual Machine, Virtual Worlds, WindowsXP 1 Comment »