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Real and virtual worlds combine in India
News This futuristic vision is almost here says Indian outsourcer Satyam as it unveiled a technology to blend the real and virtual worlds at its R&D labs in Chennai in southern India. You open a door, pass... [25 Apr 2008]
Photos: BT talks big on virtual worlds
Photo BT is developing services that could allow users of virtual worlds to call or text out to their colleagues and friends in the real world. Matthew Brotherton, project manager at the Applied Technology... [13 Sep 2007]
Photos: Google Earth in the virtual world
Photo In combination, the models and the terrain will let those making virtual worlds build in all kinds of realistic-looking real-life territory, such as urban centers, national parks or whatever else they... [15 Oct 2007]
Real world terrain coming to the virtual sphere
News Virtual-worlds platform developer Multiverse Network is set to announce a partnership that will allow anyone to create a new online interactive 3D environment with just about any model... [09 Oct 2007]
Virtual worlds to boost telcos
News Having seen web 2.0 reduce them to transport pipes, telcos may yet have a chance to steal a march on other service providers with the advent of web 3.0 - a new era heralded by the arrival of virtual... [07 Dec 2006]
Web 2.0, cloud computing 'to transform business'
News Other transformational techs not far behind web 2.0 on the hype cycle are cloud computing, virtual worlds and service-oriented architecture (SOA) - which the analyst reckons are all within two to five... [11 Aug 2008]
Ajax3D: The Open Platform for Rich 3D Web Applications
White Paper Network bandwidth and graphics hardware processing power are now sufficiently advanced to enable compelling web-based 3D experiences, including games, online virtual worlds, simulations,... [23 Jun 2007]
Suitability of Java for Virtual Collaboration
White Paper Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) support the co-existence of many users in shared virtual worlds, permitting a productive collaboration among them. This paper describes how to... [25 Feb 2004]
Photos: E-tailer Iwoot opens Second Life shop
Photo Tim Booth, Iwoot founder and creative director, said Second Life provides a safe way to test how to move the Iwoot business from its 2D website into 3D worlds but added: "We are not expecting to sell... [12 Jul 2007]
Second Lifers on their best behaviour?
News Do people behave better in virtual worlds than on blogs, forums and chatrooms on the web? Wladawsky-Berger said: "Training and meetings are the killer apps of virtual... [02 Aug 2007]
An Introduction to QuickTime
White Paper QuickTime is a cross platform system-level software package for Macintosh, Windows and Java which adds the capability to play movies, synthesize music, display animations, view virtual reality worlds and... [25 Feb 2004]
China's virtual plans are out of this world
News The Entropia Universe features a traditional 3D virtual-world environment but has more of a gaming-feel than virtual worlds such as Second Life, as it is set in a... [06 Jun 2007]
Google dampens browser speculation
News The "near" web represents the PC; the "far" web stands for television; the "here" web represents mobile devices; the "business to business" web for XML, RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds and other backend technologies; and the... [06 Oct 2004]
Silicon Graphics shuts 3D Web development centre
News Cosmo's product range includes Cosmo Player 2.1 for viewing VRML 2.0, Worlds 2.0 for building VRML-based Web pages and PageFX 1.0, which was launched just last month, for designing interactive graphics. [09 Jul 1998]
Photos of the month - October 2007
Photo Follow this link for more virtual views. Virtual-world developers are getting more grounded with the help of 3D models that can be imported from Google's 3D Warehouse.... [31 Oct 2007]
