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  Marijn

  12 months ago

  What I want to do with this:
  make my own personal 3D showcase
  Show private designs to people I invite.
  What you can do:
  Design a machine place it in a digital factory walk around it with some one on the other side of the world.
  
  
  And.........make the whole internet 3D!
  
  All this is not yet possible, but i hope at least the custom content will be possible in the near future.
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  sergio

  12 months ago

  As creepy as it is, I entered SL after getting a little tired of game modding. It scratched the itch of "making stuff and sharing it." If a service emerges that allows obj import withe the same social potential I think people will switch over.
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  Rocket J. Squirrel

  12 months ago

  "Jeez Bullwinkle, another web based environment? There are more ways to waste, I mean spend, time on-line than there are acorns in my nest; CADJunky, FaceBook, Plaxo, Linked-In, MySpace, Twitter, Plurk, Google, Vimeo, YouTube, Blogs..."
  
  "Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!"
  
  "Again?"
  
  "I gotta get a new hat"
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  Josh

  12 months ago

  @Devon - I know what you mean. I have to limit the number I use, but enjoy trying them out to see potential. I saw it in Twitter and have the same feeling about Lively. It's pretty basic right now, but just wait.
  
  I was hanging out with the 3DVia gang earlier, just gabbin' about stuff. That doesn't happen everyday.
  
  I don't like the gamey, cheesy fake aspects of it so much, but when other industries start to affect how the features are developed, I think we'll get a lot more use out of the VR Worlds.
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  csven

  12 months ago

  What I find generally surprising is the assumption that the future of 3D social applications starts with a 2D browser like IE or FF, and then 3D plug-ins are grafted on to it. Surprising, because browsers built into a CAD application aren't new. Surprising, because there's no reason not to expect a 3D client with browser capability to emerge on the scene.
  
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  Some of us are just waiting for Linden Lab to strip their client down to the bare basics: access to a virtual world (whether Second Life, OpenSim, an IBM server, or something else) with an easily accessible browser. Nothing more than a perhaps a 15Mb download (tiny in comparison to today's 1Gb+ game demos). The content creation functionality (modeling, scripting, etc) can all be either provided through separate clients or perhaps via a plug-in architecture.
  
  They've been trying to integrate the Mozilla code for a couple of years now, with most of the progress having come fairly recently. And if you read the most recent Linden Lab blog post by their CEO, he indicates they're moving forward on a stripped down client as I described above. So it might actually happen as I've suggested it could.
  
  None of this is to say that a Linden Lab 3D client is the future. Not at all. But there's no reason to persist in the belief that we'll be going from 2D to 3D instead of the other way. It could be Dassault. Could be PTC. Could be AutoDesk. Or even someone unexpected. And when viewed from that perspective, as a designer and user of highend CAD, I find things become much more interesting; I start seeing e-commerce in a whole new light (e.g. http://blog.rebang.com/?p=577 ).
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  Kellen

  11 months ago

  I really like that you covered this. i set up our lively room the same day you did. like you, i dislike the "gamey" "cheezy" aspect of it, but i think can be a great asset as soon as they open up the field for our own creations. we have international clients and to set up a virtual meeting to show off a portfolio or even work in progress could be a great experience for people.
  
  do you know anything about when they will be releasing the ability to create "products" etc?
  
  Ps. Love the site.
  
  Thanks
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  borsodas

  8 months ago

  why would google venture into the world of 3d CAD? do they own it yet?
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