An informal group has convened at the local lunch place about once per month. Great discussion… Lots happening… Here is a quick summary of discussion topics.
- The Jibe discussions on Google Groups has some great links. Check out these examples of virtual worlds created by students to invoke specific emotions. The multi-user worlds were done using Jibe from the Reaction Grid on top of Unity3D, while the single-user examples were plain Unity3D.
- Check out Autodesk 123D. Totally unexpected offering from Autodesk — well designed and free! Focus is DIY 3D solid modeling whose output creates the physical object. The odd duck is 123D Scrulpt, which is an iPad app but has no way to get the results into a normal 3D environment (please prove me wrong on this point!).
- Julien’s class in Gaming
- eBooks: pro and con, good eReading devices.
- Through Ander’s Grondsedt Group, Andrew Boyarsky of Virtual World Workshop is offering a six-hour workshop on the “Strategic Design of VW Learning Programs”.
- Federal Virtual World Challenge is due December 8
- Ander’s diversity training for Microsoft using augmented reality. They were told “more Disney and less Harvard” when directed to revise their training program.
- Microsoft World Wide Telescope, which gave rise to SciDB
- Ander: tradeoffs in doing virtual worlds with Web.Alive versus Unity3D
- Whatever happened to those amazing claims for point-cloud rendering of high-resolution graphics? Oh, that was Bruce Robert, CEO of Euclideon. Remember that YouTube video that got 2,838,827 views? Has anything come from this? Their blog states that they received $2 million in funding from the Australian Government in May. Hmmmmm
