January 10, 2008

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About The Author:

Background:

My name is Jordi R. Cardona.
I like programming since I was a child. I always felt a big interest for 3d, from the times when it was just fractal landscapes in a C64 screen.

Years ago, I entered in the VRML world via a book that was a resume of the Siggraph 98 Conference and a site called LucidSpace, and made some friends in virtual worlds.
I took some time learning to master that language, and developed many code snippets and examples, and a big harvest of links.

With all that, I founded a group of VRML and Virtual Reality and I have administered it since the year 2002, until year 2008. It became one the biggest Yahoo groups of VRML, X3D and Virtual Reality.
That project and its official website tried to increase the interest in VRML (the Virtual Reality Modeling Language). It was named in a remarkable computer magazine of my country, and linked by some Universities' websites.

Later, I showed some of my VRML works in the Outers community at Blaxxun. There, I must say I met some of the best worldbuilders of VRML.

Years later I became interested in virtual reality and took a master course ("Close encounters with virtual reality and expert tips") about virtual reality and VR software, directed by Carolina Cruz Neira, Executive Director and Chief Scientist at the Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise (LITE).

My wife, Emma Alvarez, digital artist, helps me with the aesthetic side of the 3d worldbuilding. Her artistic view and ideas have always been a great support for me in all my projects.

I am the developer of the X3DV Module Suite for Netbeans. The X3DV Module Suite is a free set of modules to code in X3D and VRML, the open standards for interactive and immersive 3D on Internet. With it, you can create virtual worlds in 3D, using the great edition features of Netbeans.

It supports the X3D Classic VRML encoding file format, with template for new x3dv files, icons, syntax highlighting, code templates and brackets completion.
This module is licensed with the LGPL license. This means that you can use it in a commercial product and license it as you like. But if you improve the module itself, you must tell the author (in this case, me) what changes you did, so everyone gets benefited.
The reason to develop this module is that I think Netbeans is a great editor that has many features that can help you, and x3dv is an easy format for beginners in X3D.

I'm also in the process of developing a virtual worlds platform since time ago. It may be ready for a closed beta in some future.
Hiperia3d.com will be a different virtual community. It will also be designed to be easy to use, even for newcomers. And this community will promote good relationships between its members, and participation.
There is already a set of natural landscapes sceneries designed, that are warm, peaceful and fun at the same time.

I'm also member of the Association Of Virtual Worlds, the main site for 3D virtual worlds collaboration and sharing of knowledge.

Hiperia3D News has been named a Netbeans Community Partner, in recognition for developing the X3DV Module Suite and contributing to the promotion of Netbeans. I've also been in the top 100 finalists of the Netbeans IDE 6.1 Blogging Contest for a tutorial on how to develop language support modules for Netneans IDE.

NetBeans Community Partners are individuals or companies who endorse NetBeans as a development environment and/or application platform. Community Partners may contribute code to the open-source NetBeans code base, promote NetBeans by giving presentations, training and writing articles or books. -Netbeans site


This Site: Hiperia3D News

I started this site to keep contact with the 3d community in general, and promote good sites of resources and knowledge.

I try to make simple what is complex, and select the essential of what happens in our topic, always trying to avoid the news that everyone has already heard, and selecting those that may be more innovative or interesting.

This site starts its public activity hoping to be a meeting point for 3d worldbuilders and virtual worlds fans.

The name of this site is hiperia3d.com because one of my former projects was called that way, using the non-English spelling of the word hyperia, which means an over-stimulated state of perception. That project became very familiar to people from France, so it inherited the spelling with Latin "i".

It hopes to be your source of news about 3d software and hardware, 3d worldbuilding, resources for scenery creation, tutorials, artistic inspiration for worldbuilders, X3D, and showcases of virtual reality artworks.

It's my desire that this project would be one of your Internet tools to help you stay connected to the 3d community.

I welcome you and hope you enjoy your stay here.


Contact Info

E-mail:
Netbeans/Java/Other Programmers:


On Virtual Worlds:
Instant Messaging:
Social Networks:
Professional Inquiries:
Facebook

Advertising, Sponsorship, Reviews:
Please check our Services section. After that, if you have any special sponsorship/affiliate plan, or different offer, e-mail me.

Bloggers:
I don't make reciprocal linking. But if you want to make a proposal that consists in a richer collaboration, e-mail me.

Collaboration:
Check our Collaborate section.

-Jordi R. Cardona-


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