February 2007
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Million dollar idea of the day
Someone needs to build a virtual panorama camera head like the one described here:
Figure 1: Peace River Studios PixOrb camera head
The tools are now available to accurately control a virtual camera angle to the point where you could reconstruct a quicktime VR file composed of virtual snapshots.
Why would you want to do this? Right now virtual worlds face an entrance barrier. People hear...
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On a university's future use of virtual worlds
Hypothetical situation: You fire up your web browser and surf over to Google. You’re looking for information about the University of Colorado and may even attend in the coming year. Pulling up CU’s site you select the option to visit their virtual campus and fire up the standard Second Life plugin. You appear in the middle of the campus clearly labeled as a prospective student. You are...
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On the necessity of divorce proceedings
Hypothetical situation: You come home after a hard day of work to find your deadbeat husband glued to the couch doing a grand total of zero. He hasn’t done a thing to help you, the house, or or relationship for as long as you can remember. Fed up with the situation and realizing you can do so much better, you snap.
Right click, about land, reclaim land. Right click, eject from land. Bye bye...