Projection on building, some 3d effects
This evening in Rotterdam. still pretty crap, was expecting more out of this.
Search engine for virtual worlds
A unique virtual world search engine developed by a team of experts at the University of Teesside is due to go live this month.
The Meta-Mole, created by the Centre for Design in the Digital Economy (D-LAB) based within the University’s Institute of Digital Innovation, will ultimately be a dedicated searchable online resource for the 350 plus virtual worlds currently existing on the Internet.
Philip McClenaghan, Deputy Director of D-LAB explains: “We were analysing virtual world platforms and realised that there doesn’t appear to be a comprehensive service offering to list and compare key data for major 2D and 3D environments. This surprised us considering the current popularity of virtual worlds. We intend to fill the gap with the Meta-Mole.”
The Meta-Mole will help both new and experienced users looking for a virtual world environment as well as platform developers who want to gauge competition.
“The Meta-Mole seeks to increase the uptake and success rates of Virtual World ventures by providing a searchable directory of available platforms, easily definable according to the need of the user”, says Dan Riley, a Metaverse Architect at D-LAB.
All data contained within the Meta-Mole is provided by the platform developers themselves along with high quality official images and videos. The Meta-Mole allows for the sharing and comparing of information and provides access to the latest core, technical and specialist features on current virtual worlds, as well as those in development.
Metaversing with augmented reality
Augmented reality is the enrichment of the real world with digital information. Augmenting reality has great application in entertainment and gaming, real time ‘physical’ data manipulation.
Now watch this movie (and this one) on how the concept of augmented reality lets you take your avatar from the virtual world into the real world. The application of this for tele conferencing will let us have the illusion of meeting in a real life space. The wait is now for a more photo realistic avatar to complete the imagary to a represent a real life meeting. The guy responsible for this Second Life to AR is Tobias Lang.
To see augmented reality technology in action for yourself, go to Boffswana and follow three simple steps to having your own desktop augmented reality creature. No scissors required.
More examples:
As a documentation and instruction manual
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