Shapeways Offers Big Discounts For Large Orders (Read more...)

Shapeways is making an experiment offering big discounts, ranging 25 to 75% for large orders (500-1000 dollars).

You have until October 10 to order and benefit of this.

If you have some kind of shop, or you want your 3D models printed in 3D to sell them physically somewhere, this is your opportunity.

I hope that Shapeways continues doing these initiatives, because this helps creators enormously. By offering this kind of discounts, businesses are encouraged to buy the creations of 3D modelers.

Read more about this in Shapeways Blog.

Hiperia3D News Recognized As Top Blog By The Daily Reviewer (Read more...)

The Daily Reviewer has selected Hiperia3D News as one of the top 100 blogs in the topic "Virtual Worlds".

Top virtual worlds Blogs

This is how The Daily Reviewer describe themselves:

"The Daily Reviewer selects only the world's top blogs (and RSS feeds). We sift through thousands of blogs daily to present you the world's best writers. The blogs that we include are authoritative on their respective niche topics and are widely read. To be included in The Daily Reviewer is a mark of excellence."

So I feel honored and very happy for this. Thank you to The Daily Reviewer and all those who read Hiperia3D News, because this success is possible because of your continuous support.

Nurien Will Be Browser-Based, No Client App Download (Read more...)

Nurien Software is now getting ready for full-scale launches in key international markets.

"With no client download, amazing animation and 3D graphics, and the ability to utilize existing social networks we’ve developed enhancements that are specifically tailored for U.S. audiences.

After several years in development, we are confident that we’ve created a new, innovative and fun way for people to interact and play online here and worldwide."
- Taehoon Kim, co-founder of Nurien Software.

Users will be able to create visually rich 3D avatars, message and chat with friends and family and upload self-created fashionable clothing items.  Consumers can also utilize their avatars and items they have developed to play advanced casual games with real friends from Facebook or MySpace. Current games include MStar (a music dance game) and Runway (a fashion show application).     

Advanced casual games have been a mega success story in Asia due to faster broadband connection, monolithic PC install base and PC room/Net-cafe infrastructure. One of the biggest barriers in the U.S. market is download distribution and client installation, as these games are often more than 1GB downloads and the client is heavily dependent on PC specifications.
Another barrier is that most casual gamers in the U.S. want to play with their real friends online rather than making new friends “in world.”

As part of its U.S. strategy, Nurien intends to solve these problems by making the service web browser-based with zero download utilizing the Unity 3D engine, while keeping high fidelity graphics such as NVIDIA PhysX, and keeping great game play as expected from advanced casual games.

This is a demo of NVIDIA PhysX. See the body of the monster, that has an outstanding realism:

Unity-made games can be played inside a web browser thanks to the Unity Web Player Plug-in. The plug-in download is small (about 3 MB), auto-installs without a browser restart, and already has a 8-digit distribution. It works on all modern browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and most Mozilla-based browsers.

And this is how Unity 3D looks:

Nurien is also retaining the virtual goods micro-transaction business model that has been successful in Asia and receiving rapid adoption in U.S., but adding a marketplace for user-created content that have been successful in services such as Second Life and IMVU.

http://corp.nurien.com/eng/main.html

Prim Perfect Music Party At Second Life (Read more...)

Prim Perfect Magazine’s September issue focuses on the Islands of New England, featuring several articles about the community.

On this Thursday 8th October, starting at 6pm SLT, there will be three straight hours of music.

6pm  – Cylindrian Rutabaga, the virtual representation of Atlanta singer-songwriter Grace Buford, performs a unique blend of folk, pop, blues, and soul wrapped in the phrase of modern acoustic folk.

7pm  – FrankLee Anatra, a real world veteran performer for more than a decade, plays classic rock and originals, accompanied by his acoustic guitar for his SL audiences.

8pm – Harper Messmer blends pop, rock, and R&B into a musical arsenal of originals and covers from some of today’s top artists

Vue 7 PLE: Render And Animate 3D Landscapes For Free (Read more...)

Vue 7 PLE is a free version of Vue 7. It is called Free Personal Learning Edition because it's for non commercial use.

The Free Personal Learning Edition (PLE) is a fully functionnal version of Vue 7.5 Infinite/xStream (selection of Infinite or xStream is done during installation).

Here's a presentation video of Vue 7:

Vue is a rendering application in which you can create natural landscapes, and also import 3D models to be rendered inside these landscapes. You can also create animated films of your landscapes, but Vue is often used for renders.

You can save your work, render without size limit, and it never expires. As said, PLE is for personal, non-commercial use only, files cannot be exchanged with other PLE users and are not compatible with other versions of Vue, renders may be watermarked and carry a logo.

I must say that I tried Vue and could not make a decent and fast render. To be true, neither a slow and decent render. I have seen stunning images of renders made with Vue, so I suppose that you get the most of the application if you use the feature that it has to render a same scene using multiple computers. In that case, you can set rendering parameters to maximum. Anyway, a very powerful machine is recommended.

http://www.vue7.com/ple/