VastPark preparing an integration plugin for OpenSim

A really old news, took time to bubble up. It's all in the title : VastPark announced they started writing a plugin that will allow hosting of their IMML documents on OpenSim servers.
What does this mean?
OpenSim is a widely accepted free 3D (virtual world, in our case) application server. Up to now, all the protocols [...]

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Bobba, Pocketsize Virtual World

Sulake, previously known as the editor of the "hangout" virtual world Habbo, launched today a mobile version of the product conceived exclusively for mobile devices.
Bobba, or the Pocketsize Virtual World, is currently in Beta, and is available for Nokia S60 users only. Announced ("soon") for iPhone and iPod, it obviously aims to generalize the presence [...]

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Bitmanagement and IPL to offer low price caves

The Institut für Produktmanagment und Logistik GmbH (IPL) and Bitmanagement Software GmbH, both situated in the nearbies of Munich, Germany, entered into an agreement with the objective to conjointly market virtual reality cave systems.

IPL, operating mainly in Germany, has developed a round cave system, built up from commercially available standard-hardware components and presenting 75% [...]

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VR on mobile devices with V-Gate's Metaport

Here is another thing coming out on the ongoing GDC (March 23-27).
V-Gate, a division of Scientific Computers, presented today an innovative procedure for transmitting 3D contents to mobile devices. The official name of this patented system is Metaport, but they use to call it Virtual Reality to go.
Accordingly to the press release, in details it [...]

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Oblong's g-speak speaks for itself

This seems to be old, but I only recently found out about it. Pushing the limits of the human-machine interaction?

g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.
Oblong is a company founded by MIT's John Underkoffler, the guy who's behind the famous SF UI concepts from Minority Report. Its mission is to make information more spatial, [...]

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