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Multiuser VR worlds in the browser
Multiuser VR worlds in the browser are coming. See last week’s Awesome: Flash MMOGs coming. Two more examples:
Vivaty‘s X3D technology, covered by the New York Times, has been first deployed as a Facebook application, currently in closed beta. Facebook users will be able to meet and talk in browser based VR micro environments inside Facebook. X3D is the successor of the late lamented VRML of the 90s, and this application may begin converting the promise of VRML / X3D to reality. In the picture above, my first visit to my VR room in Facebook.
From Russia, the Alternativa Platform is a Flash based platform for creating, implementing and supporting multi-user browser media over the Internet. Their new demo has been noticed in the last few days and highly praised: “No question about it, these guys are really pushing the limits with his Alternativa3D engine. The rendering is amazing”. Check this demo (picture above): it is like a videogame of the late 90s running in the browser.
See also the new Flash 3D / VR Green Planet demos of Away3D and chase the giant alien dragonfly around. This begins to look like Entropia Universe in the browser. Alternativa and Away3D do not have multiuser demos yet, but i guess the Paperworld3D approach would work.
Posted by G.P. on 04/18/08
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Come sempre interessante: la possibilità di utilizzare Flash come possibile software di sviluppo di siti web in 3d apre possibilità prima inesprimibili, dato il fatto che 3d e 2d sarebbero completamente implementabili a vicenda…
Le possibilità sono infinite!
Posted by - 04/18/08
Si, le possibilitá sono infinite, e con la sua penetrazione del 98% Flash si puó considerare como parte del browser agli effetti pratici. Questa potrebbe essere la new wave e la prima killer app nel metaverso. Vedi anche Away3D (aggiungo testo al post).
Posted by - 04/22/08
E tornando al turismo, questa tecnologia potrebbe essere piú interessante di SL per gli operatori turistici, perché riduce la barriera di fruizione per l’ utente finale.
Posted by - 04/22/08
