July 9, 2009

VirtualBox Improved 3D Support

VirtualBox has improved its 3D support. As you may have read, VirtualBox is a free (GPL) project that simulates virtual computers that run in your real PC as programs. Read the article in which I explained it.

You can read a list of the recent changes here.

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July 8, 2009

Rocking Metaverse: Starting Tuesday 7th At SL, ActiveWorlds And Metaplace.

Rocking the Metaverse continues this Tuesday July 7th, and will route through Second Life, ActiveWorlds, and Metaplace.

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Photo of the CY Awards by hiperia3d

Read the announcement in Rocking The Metaverse at Koinup. This is the list of events:

7th of july: Orange Island (SecondLife)
14th of july: Active Worlds Europe
21th of july: Metaplace

And the concerts will continue on August, ReactionGrid, Twinity, and others.

The show will also host photo-contests.

Join the Rocking The Metaverse group at Koinup.

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July 7, 2009

Conferences And Events For This Summer

NEXT WEEK

CG CON 2009 is coming, July 16 to 19. This is the world's largest conference for creative computer graphics professional offering 24 Master Classes and many other activities.

AUGUST

SIGGRAPH 2009 will this year be one of the big events of all the year, with the presence of relevant figures of 3D cinema, 3D artists, augmented reality gadgets, and more. The conference and the exhibition will be on New Orleans between 3 and 7 of August. Check it here.

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Photo by wili_hybrid

SEPTEMBER

In September, in the days 23 and 24, in the Californian city of San Jose, USA, you can attend many important events in just one: the Engage! Expo. Engage! is the leading event for companies seeking to leverage the power of user engagement.

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Los Angeles Airport (California, oh yes not San Jose sorry!). Photo by monkeytime

This is an expo aimed to professionals, businesses, and companies that work with virtual worlds.

 Virtual Goods Conference - For businesses seeking to understand and maximize business strategies using virtual goods, items and gifts.

 3D Training Learning and Collaboration - Event for businesses seeking to understand and maximize business strategies using virtual worlds.

 Digital Law Conference - Event for legal professionals whose companies or clients are currently or may in the near future be influenced by the adoption and use of digital technologies.

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July 6, 2009

The 3D Studio Reaches 270,000 3D Models

 

Mesa, AZ—July 6, 2009: The3dStudio.com, Inc. is pleased to announce the addition of over 1000 DeEspona 3D models to their web site, bringing the total of free and priced resources to more than 270,000.

The3dStudio.com web site offers 3D models, textures, tutorials, plugins, gallery art, stock images, and software. Expert custom work and free file conversion are available.

President Matt Anderson says, “We are pleased to welcome Mr. de Espona to The3dStudio.com family of artists and to be able to provide these excellent models to our customers. The DeEspona collection has long been a favorite in the 3D world.”

The3dStudio.com is one of the oldest and largest 3D resource sites, committed to continuing to add to their resource collection and improve and upgrade their web site with new features and enhancements at every opportunity.

There is no cost to become a member or to sell resources at http://www.the3dstudio.com and there are numerous benefits.

The company pays artists one of the highest royalty rates in the industry.

They strive to provide the best customer service possible, with fast personal answers via email seven days a week.

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July 5, 2009

New ZBrush Plugins For 3D Printing: Optimization, And VRML Export

ZBrush recently launched new plugins that are good for 3D printing with services like Shapeways: one for optimization of meshes, and the other to export in formats suitable for 3D printing.

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Modeled with Zbrush. Photo by jamsven.de

You can get the new plugins here. Decimation Master optimizes the 3D mesh without removing the details, and 3D Print Explorer is to add STL and VRML file format export to ZBrush.

First you optimize your mesh and then export it SLT or VRML (again, VRML is not dead), and upload it to Shapeways to print it in 3D.

To read more about this, read this post on the Shapeways blog.

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