3d Environment

Cooliris For iPhone: Surfing The Web With 3D Experience — Jackson has previously covered the Cooliris plugin for the various browsers. In this article, I would like to discuss more about Cooliris for the iPhone. For all those who are still not sure what Cooliris is, it is a browser plugin that enables you to surf the Web with a cinematic style. The wall on which it shows thumbnails of images, videos, news pulled from various sources and so on, allows you to be fully immersed in a 3D environment. You can easily surf the Web simply by dragging, sliding, clicking and selecting the thumbnails with your mouse. On the... [Tags: 3d environment, browser plugin, checkout, cinematic style, computer browser]

3DMailBox.com - 3-Dimensional Email Software — In their own words“3-Dimensional e-mail software. Bring e-mail to life. E-mail just got cool and fun.”Why it might be a killerIt is an approach that works well for a change.Some questionsWhat is the price of an activation code?What it doesAre you tired of the tried an tested approach to e-mail inboxes? If that is the case and you are looking into bringing the whole process alive, then this company seems to have devised the right solution for you. In essence, a 3D Mail box provides a 3D environment that works with Hotmail,Yahoo Mail and GMail and transforms the whole experience... [Tags: 3d environment, activation code, e mail software, email software, gmail]

Mozilla: One Billion Addons Served - Here Are Some of Our Favorites — Mozilla today announced that it has served its 1 billionth addon download since they started keeping track of these downloads in 2005. Currently, Mozilla's users are downloading close to 1.5 million addons every day. Mozilla has cultivated one of the most active and interesting developer communities around its products and seeing numbers like these will surely give a lot of other developers an incentive to try their hands at developing new plugins for Firefox as well. Sponsor Mozila also just released a new interface to showcase some of the top Firefox addons, which will surely bring a lot of new... [Tags: 3d environment, adblock, billionth, bookmarking, clipper]

Amazon In 3D? Is That Useful? — Earlier this year, we talked about getting beyond the "webpage" metaphor when setting up online shopping experiences, and noted how Borders was testing a virtual bookshelf system that seemed more gimmicky than useful. Well, now it appears that Amazon has one-upped Borders by offering WindowShop, a 3D shopping experience... and once again I find myself underwhelmed. While it also has something of a shelf metaphor, it has some advantages in that clicking on any individual "product" can bring up audio, video and text about the product. However, it still feels rather gimmicky rather than useful. For years people have tried... [Tags: 3d environment, amazon, bookshelf system, borders, experiences]

Windows only: Like the look of BumpTop but not part of the invite-only beta? Free application Shock Desktop 3D is a lightweight BumpTop alternative that turns your Windows desktop into a 3D environment where you can interact with your documents in a physical space. The video above—put together by reader y0himba—demonstrates some of Shock Desktop 3D's interface in action. If you like the look of BumpTop, Shock Desktop 3D looks like a nice alternative. With either option you'll need a decent video card and be willing to sacrifice a little memory (Shock Desktop 3D eats about 35MB on my system),... [Tags: 3d desktop, 3d environment, bumptop, decent video card, desktop 3d]

Adding another dimension to your city — Your downtown is so much more than an address listing of the businesses in it. What if there were a way for someone to discover their new favorite bookstore, within easy walking distance of the parking garage, with a coffee shop next door and a kids' play area a block away, all at once? What if you could plan a walking tour of all the historic buildings downtown, and in the process discover that there's an ice cream parlor and a pottery shop that you just have to visit along the way? There's a way to do all these things,... [Tags: 3d buildings, 3d environment, 3d models, architect, building models]

Have You Ever Wanted to be a 3D Game Developer? — Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed When I was a kid, we had a Commodore 64 computer. It had a program that would allow you to create little games. It was kind of cool, but they were nothing like what you can create and play today. The tools for game creation today are just so advanced and complex, right? Not necessarily, no. Alex sent me an email with a link to the Alice project. Alice is educational software that allows you to learn programming in a 3D environment. Alice is an... [Tags: 3d environment, 3d game developer, 3d programming, alice project, animation programs]

Big Bang Board Games released for iPhone — Freeverse has released its latest game collection for the iPhone and iPod touch, Big Bang Board Games. Chess, Checkers, Backgammon, Reversi, 4-in-a-Row, Mancala, and Tic Tac Toe are all included in the package. The game is set in a 3D environment, with characters Sol and Luna reacting to the gamers' actions with encouragement, taunting, or anger....... [Tags: 3d environment, anger, backgammon, big bang, board games]

There.com virtual world adds Mac support — Virtual world site There.com has announced support for Mac OS X, a new report says. The service is similar in theme to Second Life, allowing users to wander a 3D environment with an avatar, talk with other people, and participate in an internal economy. Unlike its rival however, There is aimed primarily at teenagers, and requires any objects created to be sanctioned by its developer....... [Tags: 3d environment, internal economy, mac os x, mac support, os x]

Virtually There: Three Exciting New Features for There.com — There.com has long existed under the massive shadow of its more successful competitor, Second Life. Well, they’ve decided to shake things up a bit and give the Goliath of 3D virtual worlds a run for the money by announcing three new features: Facebook Application Facing There allows There.com members to showcase their in-world profiles, skills, groups and upcoming events on Facebook. It also provides links to There.com’s auctions, where members can purchase a variety of virtual merchandise, including clothing, vehicles and home décor items. Lightweight IM Client There.com claims that ThereIM is the industry’s first instant messaging tool that... [Tags: 3d environment, 3d world, client interface, communicating with friends, counterpart]

Create and View 3D Panoramas with Photosynth — Microsoft Labs has finally released their latest web-app, Photosynth, out of beta and is now available to public for use. You can view and create panoramic 3D views by synchronizing multiple images and reconstructing the scene or object in a 3D environment. With just a bunch of images, you can create an amazing 3D views and offer virtual tours. In order to use Photosynth, you need to install two programs on your computer: a Web browser plug-in for viewing synths, and an application called Photosynth for creating them. Clicking the Install Photosynth button below will install both of them. When... [Tags: 2d 3d, 3d environment, 3d panoramas, 3d views, beta]

Briefly: Microsoft opens up Photosynth, site goes offline — Microsoft Live Labs has announced that Photosynth, the environmental imaging software in development since 2006, is out of its closed beta and now available for anyone to use. Microsoft is hosting up to 20 gigabytes of space for each user to upload, stitch and display their own 3D environments created from images. New users must download a browser plug-in as well as software to render the images into a 3D environment. The rendering software is only for Windows XP and Vista. The announcement seems to have driven a large amount of traffic to the site. Photosynth.com is currently down,... [Tags: 3d environment, 3d environments, amount of traffic, beta, community forum]

Microsoft Launches Photosynth: Your Pictures in 3D — Tonight, Microsoft has publicly launched Photosynth, its long awaited Live Labs product that allows you to stitch your photos together to create a detailed 3D environment.  While most of the computation is done on your desktop, the images are uploaded to Microsoft's servers and Microsoft is giving all Photosynth users a total of 20GB of storage for their collections. The rendering and browsing is done with the help of Seadragon, another Live Labs product. Windows Only When Microsoft first publicly showed a demo of Photosynth in 2006, it almost looked too good to be true. Now, getting started with it... [Tags: 3d environment, attempts, collections, cores, creative commons license]

Sosauce, the aesthetically-pleasing network designed for sharing photos and travel adventures, has rolled out two new major updates, both of which revolve around the sharing of media in an enlightening environment. Expanding on its existing travel features, Sosauce’s new Travel Guide works in conjunction with the site’s travel recording tool for improved journey-sharing capabilities. This reflects Sosauce’s desire to become a more comprehensive service for planning trips, recording trips, and seeking advice from others, whether they are friends or other members of the community. The specific features that are taking Sosauce in this direction include the ability to search... [Tags: 3d environment, capabilities, comprehensive service, conjunction, itineraries]

Sosauce Hints at Amazing Future of Travel Websites — Today we have an interesting piece of news from Sosauce, a travel startup we reviewed on Profy first when it launched back in May. At the time we called Sosauce a place to have a “really fantastic super travel journal” because the site provided all the functions a user could dream of to have a perfect travel journal - and even more so this explains some of the admiration in our description. The platform allows to record everything related to your travel experience - from the route to photos and journal - and place it all in one very comfortable... [Tags: 2d web, 3d environment, admiration, blog, comfortable place]

The team behind the mind-blowing photo-stitching software, Photosynth, is back with even more explosives for your brain. As part of the SIGGRAPH 2008 conference in Los Angeles, the collaborative research team from the University of Washington and Microsoft Research showed off some changes and improvements that give Photosynth some even more stunning effects. The new technologies move beyond the initial idea of stitching individual photographs together in a 3D environment, and can now actually manipulate color and tone within the photos. It all sounds very technical and boring, but the results are amazing. Check out the video above and... [Tags: 3d environment, brain, collaborative research team, explosives, flickr]

Uni. Washington and Microsoft Research collaborates on (yet another) mindblowing 3D photo viewer — If you think you’ve seen what’s possible with Photosynth, then you’ve seen nothing yet. The collaborative research team from the University of Washington and Microsoft Research who only two years ago in 2006 published their paper “Photo Tourism” and their technology demonstration “Photosynth” have again pushed the boundaries of what can be achieved by intuitively processing the abundance of digital images shared on the web. This week at SIGGRAPH 2008 they’re sharing with the world some even better technology they’ve been working on which they call “Finding Paths through the World’s Photos“. Don’t let the name fool you, it’s damn... [Tags: 3d environment, abundance, better technology, boundaries, collaborative research team]

e-on software previews Vue 7 at Siggraph — e-on software today is previewed Vue 7 at Siggraph in Los Angeles. Vue is a 3D-environment solution, which creates, animates, renders and integrates natural 3D visuals, working with Autodesk 3ds Max, Maya, Softimage XSI, Maxon Cinema 4D and Newtek LightWave. Vue 7 will feature a third-generation of Vue's EcoSystem technology (for creating nature-ba...... [Tags: 3d environment, 3d visuals, autodesk, autodesk 3ds max, e on software]

Looking for a job? Yoo can just walk right in! — What is Yoowalk? Yoowalk is a no-download virtual world which lets you browse the web, connect with friends, and design your own space in a live 3D environment. Walk around the web Yoowalk is a virtual representation of the world wide web. It is composed of categorized villages of 3D websites called walksites that you browse with a personalized avatar. Simply walk your avatar along the streets to explore the coolest versions of your favorite websites. Interact with live web traffic Once in Yoowalk, you will not only see other avatars browsing the web, but will be able to... [Tags: 3d environment, 3d space, avatar, bloggers, crazy weekend]

Editor’s Note: If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion in “The Startup Review” series, please see the details here. STARTUP DETAILS: Company Name: Yoowalk 20 word description: Yoowalk is a no-download virtual world which lets you browse the web, connect with friends, and design your own space in live 3D environment. CEO’s 100 word description: We are entering in an era of Web 3.0. Web 2.0 rested on social networking, user-generated content, and communication platforms. Our revolutionary service adds 3D to all this, which lets users interact live on the web, congregate with friends, walk... [Tags: 10 million, 3d environment, 3d representations, avatar, chappele show]