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CyberTech News continues as Max Ping Magazine
Tuesday 14th April, 2009. Max Ping Magazine is now online. This is the last post on CyberTech News. From now on, Max Ping brings the news to you in a better, more organized way with more authors and wider scope!
CyberTech News was started at the beginning of December, 2008. Now the scope of the articles [...]
Comparison: How realistic Avatars can look like?
Here is a comparison between virtual world avatars and how realistic they can be. Generally it is easier to make cartoon-like and harder to make photorealistic. Commercial games and many closed virtual worlds are not included. Barack Obama is used as an example as he is widely known.
Wikipedia says that an avatar is “a deliberate [...]
ThinkBalm to find out the business value of immersive technologies
What is the business value of using immersive technologies for work? ThinkBalm announced an online survey to find out the answer. ThinkBalm will publish a report in mid-May 2009. The report will be freely available on www.thinkbalm.com.
The focus of the study is work-related use of virtual worlds and campuses, immersive learning environments, and 3D business applications. The [...]
Open source licenses, virtual worlds and business, do they mix?
What if you wanted to do some business using open source software? You are most probably already doing that even if you may not realize it. Open source virtual worlds have different licenses and they are briefly covered here.
Consider this example: You pay to a developer company to make you an e-commerce web site. They [...]
Dr. Ping: Full automatic problem fixing framework
Following the first of April stereo 3D monitor building tests, Dr. Ping announces ground breaking research results from CTN research laboratories: Microsoft semi-automatic error and problem fixing framework can be forced to be full automatic.
The fellow scientist Dr. Ping has just joined CyberTech News laboratories before the succesfull implementation of 3D stereo display. CyberTech News [...]
How to design effective virtual world applications
Virtual world applications offer many new possibilities how people interact and play together to achieve common goals. To get the full potential of virtual worlds for an application, the first implementation idea may not be the best one. Copying the real world leads to inefficient and awkward solutions.
Copying the real world leads to bad design. [...]
How to make 3D stereo display in one hour without special materials
Oulu, Finland 1st of April, 2009. New stereoscopic 3D monitors have been very expensive. Now at CyberTech News laboratory, the chief researcher J. Pirkola has successfully created a Do-It-Yourself 3D stereoscopic viewing experience, and the process is repeatable by anyone.
This sensational and cheap procedure requires careful preparation and a patch for your realXtend viewer [...]
First experiences from Virtual Casino de Deauville
Today, 20th of March, MKO Games and Barrière Casinos launched the virtual replica of the Casino de Deauville. The casino web site is www.LeCroupier.com.
CyberTech News gave a test spin for the casino and its games. The casino features roulette, black jack and slot games. Everything can be played just for fun using play money, or for real.
I [...]
Virtual growing trees and grass in OpenLife
Earlier CTN wrote about what is going on at OpenLife grid. One of the perhaps most interesting things was the mention of the concept of Living Island and how trees and grass were growing, seeding and dying - just like in a real world forest.
The technology behind the tree is SSO or Server Side Object. [...]
