Mmm technology like this has so much potential indeed. Ive been draming of it for years, but the reality doesnt match what is technically possible right now, and it makes me very sad.
I dont think Ive checked out second life, but lots of others that use a similar 3d avatar in a virtual world type thang. All the ones I tried were a bit rough around the edges, years behind the sorts of 3d interactive experiences you can have online if you want to shoot someone in a tank. Its one tragedy to me, because I think of all the millions of development hours that have gone into allowing people from all over the world to shoot eachother, and what they have achieved. There is some brilliant stuff out there, but I dont want to shoot people, I want to interract in positive ways. To me the ultimate system just requires a few extra existing technologies to be merged with the 3d engine: The ability to project video onto virtual screens in the 3d world, and for everyone in that room to see and hear it, would be so sweet. Then we could all gather round and have virtual videoblogging conferences, tutorials etc, watch video together. I dont really know how good it would be until its done nicely and tried by lots of people. But Id sure like to see the virtual videobloggers multiplex cinema in action. Ultimately the idea can be taken further, and the faces of the avatars could be replaced by ichat type video of the peoples actual faces, so all this stuff merges together with videoconferencing fully. A lot of the companies who did virtual worlds stuff did not do so well, and 3d internet in gernal has not taken off like many hoped. I put it down to not-good-enough 3d engines, and people not being used to how they could make an efficient user interface in 3d. I can see why there is so much more money for development of games rather than this stuff, eventually the right 3d engine that supports video as a texture might be used by someone doing a virtual world thing and woohoo, my dreams will come true. Steve of Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, andrew michael baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A couple of months ago, Amanda did an interview inside the VR world > called Second LIfe: > http://secondlife.com/ > > She created an avatar, flew around inside the engine and met other > people in a 3D chat lecture hall to give a speech. > > About a month ago, I downloaded the application and jumped in and I > feel like this is the perhaps the most profound thing I have ever > come across in my life. > > In terms of videoblogging, the potential is absolutely, incredibly, > super daunting, perhaps because within this virtual world, you > transcend locational bounderies now restricted by time and money. To > add a layer of photo realism would be the end all. > > I cant tell you enough how much I recommend checking this out. I feel > like I have seen aliens from another world and they are me, it feels > so real. > > We are looking for a correspondent from Second Life for Rocketboom so > if anyone is into this or happens to get really hard core into this, > let me know. Its one of those things you could live your entire life by. > > The thing that I think makes this so impressive, is the feeling that > it is really me inside there. > > For some reason, my avatar flying around in there looks just real > enough to allow me to get sucked into to the reality of it, much like > getting sucked into a film, only in this case its actually me that is > the character. > > They just made it free too: > http://secondlife.com/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
