VirtualEnvironments

February 28, 2007general, VirtualEnvironments

New 3D virtual world Kaneva getting ready to launch

While catching up on virtual world and metaverse news, I found this interesting little article about a startup virtual world called Kaneva, which is in beta testing. Its creator, Christopher […]
February 26, 2007general, VirtualEnvironments

Virtual Worlds 2007

I was catching up on my metaverse news this morning, and realized I missed the announcements about Virtual Worlds 2007, a conference about the future of Virtual Worlds in a […]
January 30, 2007general, GIS_Software, Hardware, VirtualEnvironments

FakeSpace, VRCO and GIS

Today on Directions on the News there was an item about how VRCO has released their next version of Conduit for Google Earth. The Conduit software is a translator that […]
January 19, 2007general, VirtualEnvironments, WebMapping

Google Maps + Oblivion = Internet Mapping Fun

Here’s a pretty cool mashup for those gamers out there. For those unaware of the joys of running around a massive virtual world and smacking it’s denizens with a sharp […]
January 19, 2007general, VirtualEnvironments

PacketGarden – use your web surfing to grow your own virtual world

PacketGarden is a cool application (still in beta) that grows your own virtual world based on your internet activity. PacketGarden uses information about your internet use to generate this private […]
January 10, 2007general, VirtualEnvironments

Politicians in Second Life

Along with a new Congress, the Democrats are moving into a new venue – Second Life. George Miller (D-Calif) appeared in Second life to give a virtual question and answer […]
January 9, 2007general, VirtualEnvironments

Second Life releases viewer code

This actually was announced Monday, but I couldn’t decide what approach to take when talking about the fact that Linden Labs has released the code for their Second Life client […]
December 13, 2006general, Software, VirtualEnvironments

Quick overview of Google Sketchup

Episode 32 of MacBreak gives a nice video overview of how to use Google Sketchup in conjunction with Google Earth. While they demo it on a Mac, it works the […]
November 25, 2006general, VirtualEnvironments

IBM funding 3D internet project

I am starting to catch up on some things I’ve missed while we were getting ready for the SEDAAG conference, and this project is one I’m really interested in. An […]
November 12, 2006general, VirtualEnvironments

REALVIZ – VTour home page

I think I forgot to post this two weeks ago…but here it is. Realviz, a company that creates a variety of image software, has recently released a package called VTour […]