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13 Jan 08
Jon Mell - Web 2.0 ideas and strategy: Next generation video conferencing
Fascinating video - have a look
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Star Trek like video conferencing solution was incredibly impressive
Jon Mell - Web 2.0 ideas and strategy: Virtual training - does this make Second Life useful?
Useful insight
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Personally, I think it is these practical subjects, such as medicine, construction, architecture etc. where virtual worlds add significant value.
Jon Mell - Web 2.0 ideas and strategy
Very interesting blog from a UK business consulting perspective.
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08 Jan 08
Procrastineering - Project blog for Johnny Chung Lee
Amazing!
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Wiimote DesktopVR - FAQ and Adv Discussion
Wiimote Whiteboard - FAQ and Adv Discussion
Wiimote Finger Tracking -FAQ and Adv Discussion
"Unable to launch the DesktopVR program"
Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the Wi...
Source Forge: Wiimote Whiteboard
$14 Steadycam
Johnny Chung Lee - Projects - Wii
These projects are just amazingly cool - and could have all kinds of practical applications.
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track the location of your head and render view dependent images on the screen. This effectively transforms your display into a portal to a virtual environment. The display properly reacts to head and body movement as if it were a real window creating a realistic illusion of depth and space.
27 Oct 07
UK minister pledges policing for Second Life | The Register
As normal, politicians trying to grab the headlines :(
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anti-social behaviour, surely a sign that the virtual ASBO is on its way to disperse rowdy avatars planning to picket UK.gov's virtual embassy in Second Life, for example.
26 Oct 07
Comments on ‘Second Life turns on screams of horror tool’ | The Register
Some much needed scepticism in articles and comments here.
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I was talking to a leading lecturer in Chemistry who sees the potential of being able to put together chemical molecules and build models instantly to demonstrate to his students.
I remember when Apple macs first came into the graphics business and our 24 strong team of typesetters laughed and said how poor it was at setting type. Within 1 year, they were all unemployed. SL is in that early infancy.
12 Oct 07
croquet-user - Re: [croquet-user] Importing Objects
Update on Wicket collaborative 3D extrusion tool for Croquet
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I put the Wicket project on hold to focus on getting Hedgehog out the door and more recently Qwaq Forums. I would like to revisit it sometime next year, but decided I would need a bit more of an externally extensible foundation before pursuing it.
Croquet Edit and Create 3d Objects « The Weekly Squeak
Building 3D objects for Croquet - lots of Options
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> which are mentioning Wicket and EditObject3D. Are these the tools to
> use? How to start these? It looks like they are not in the image I
> downloaded, and I can’t find any Monticello package which would
> include these.
Croquet chief architect and Wicket author has a commercial company called Qwaq.
There are a lot of good non-collaborative tools for making 3D objects, including 3D Studio Max, Blender, Maya, Poser, SketchUp, etc.
11 Oct 07
Krestianstvo - Krestianstvo
This imports many key objects from Sophie into Croquet
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It integrates all in one Croquet SDK environment:
1. Freetype fonts and Unicode support (native from Sophie).
Use of any language you want, just point to necessary Freetype font.
2. Rome graphic support (from Rome and Sophie)
3. XUL programming model (native from Sophie)
Alan Kay: The PC Must Be Revamped--Now - Feb 14, 2007
I would really like to see a paper where Kay gives pointers to all the examples he has to hand of better ways of thinking (computer facilitated or not) and an objective defence of _why_ they are better. This is inspirational and revealing, but it isn't t
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Cicero said, "Who knows only his own generation remains always a child."...Why doesn't my machine look like an Internet inside? ...
You can think of Croquet as a new way of doing an operating system, or as a layer over TCP/IP that automatically coordinates dynamic objects over the entire Internet in real time....he third project we're just getting started on and don't have completely funded yet, is to make a new kind of user interface that can actually help people learn things, from very mundane things about how their computer system works to more interesting things like math, science, reading and writing. This project came about because of the $100 laptop.... If you think of the purpose of the spreadsheet being not only to tabulate what did happen, but to give you an idea of what could happen, you would immediately redesign the spreadsheet and integrate it with graphical displays or visualization in a very different way. You would be on the road to a different kind of computer literacy....Since the late sixties, I've been interested in the extent to which you could cultivate the kind of thinking skills that only a few people use in the world today, by getting children to learn much more widely and much more fluently than most adults have....
People will attempt to spread our society's pop-culture technology to the Third World as the Third World gets wired up, so there's only a little window of time where you could possibly get children hooked into stuff which requires a lot more learning. It might not be possible, but I can't think of anything that I would rather work on.
Suslov Nikolay: Open Croquet realtime art installation: Igrishe.
Suslov says this is easy. I say that it is awesome.
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For example: it is easy to model the real world scene lightning ( transitions and effects with color, moving the computer generated light source in the space of real walls); geometry transformations (dividing, adding new virtual walls); projecting video/3d animations/images synchronously; and so on.
xaverse: Quick and Dirty Guide to Launching a Croquet World
How to open a world that isn't already scripted for you
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6. Advanced users: You may want to investigate the code for the world that you just initiated. To do this, return to the "System Browser" window. Alt-click in the left-most pane of the window. You are presented with a contextual menu. From this menu, select "find class."
05 Oct 07
Greenbush Island
A SecondLife island
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teachers can lecture, explore, and share with one another. We hold several live events a month as well as live streaming content from cameras
04 Oct 07
Seven ways croquet is better than Second Life (and Croquet) - Just Looking: Luke Francl's Weblog
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Realistic rendering: Objects in the game world are made up of billions of individual atoms with various properties. When combined, these atoms create objects with different observable properties. The refresh rate and resolution is limited only by your optic nerve.
7 Ways Croquet is Better than Second Life at EduTechie.com
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Imagine creating a classroom with multiple links to other worlds. These links are called 3D Hyperlinks.
Arts Metaverse
I don't know why they have modelled an ugly concrete campus, but it has a nice sunken garden, great art galleries, and an awesome Machu Picchu
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ImageUBC Tour - 1
ImageMachu Picchu - 1
ImageMachu Picchu - 2
Tim Wang's eLearning Blog - Arts Metaverse UBC Campus Video 2
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It is critical to “see” the art works continuously in 360 degrees rotation rather than starting from one point to another. Many of them have no “beginning” and “ending”.
Tim Wang's eLearning Blog - Croquet Keeps Crashing When Connecting to Another World? Fixs Available in
Visual guide to getting updates. Screenshots are essential to Squeak.
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Here's the step by step instruction of how to get to the update for the connection crash fix:
Tim Wang of UBC - YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
Tim Wang uploads some videos of his Arts Metaverse work for his blog.
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Wii Remote and Open Croquet 03, Arts Metaverse - UBC Campus 02
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