Co-Founder Of Total Immersion: About The Future Of 3D (Read more...)

Bruno Uzzan, co-founder and CEO of Total Immersion ( www.t-immersion.com ), send us some reflections about the real practical use of 3D. Total Immersion is the global leader company in augmented reality. They develop all kinds of solutions in 3D through augmented reality that solve real problems or enhance a real experience. He answers to the question "Where is 3D taking us?", which can be re-formulated as "Where is the future of 3D?"

According to Bruno Uzzan, part of the answer lies in augmented reality (AR). AR - which blurs the line between the virtual world and the real world by integrating real time interactive 3D graphics into a live video stream - is, for increasing numbers of consumers, the front line in the 3D revolution. It's the way that millions are now getting up close and personal with 3D, via near-tactile experiences.

"This isn't your father's 3D. In an earlier era, 3D in films - typically h or r or films -- was used as a trick, a f or eground element. In this post-Avatar era, 3D is now the depth of the environment, a way to immerse the audience and create hyper-realistic experiences. The 3D phenomenon is part of a profound transition in expression, from analog to digital - not at the expense of the analog world, but as an adjunct to it. In short order, we will begin to consume entertainment differently, we will begin to shop differently, we will begin to see differently."

According to Uzzan, what's missing - what the industry needs now - is "community engagement around a vision of both 3D and AR as transformative platforms f or experiential advertising, marketing, education and entertainment."

About Total Immersion
Total Immersion ( www.t-immersion.com ) is the global leader in augmented reality. Through its patented D'Fusion® technology, Total Immersion blurs the line between the virtual world and the real world by integrating real time interactive 3D graphics into a live video stream. Leading the augmented reality category since 1999, the company maintains offices in Europe ( France and UK), North America and Asia. Total Immersion supports the world's largest AR Partner network, with a diversified portfolio of more than 80 best-of-breed solution providers worldwide. Find the latest news about Total Immersion at: http://blog.t-immersion.com.

TinEye: Search For The Original Images And Copies (Read more...)

TinEye is a search engine that helps content creators and art lovers. For content creators like painters or digital artists, photographers and others, it helps you to track ilegal uses of your images. For art lovers, it helps you to identify the author of that image that you like so much.

When you enter the url of an image in TinEye, it searches for that same image on Internet. Even if the image was altered or cropped, it will recognise the image, and show you the results and urls where they are located.

If you are searching for the author of an image, you just look for the bigger image, that hasn't been cropped, and visit that url to see if that's the author's page.

If you are the copyright owner, you can check if the sites that have your images are fan sites, legal uses, or just people making money from your work without your permission.

TinEye is one of the first implementations of image recognition for fair use of copyrighted or copylefted images. Remember the article about Semantic Copyright ? TinEye is the same idea, that is now a reality.

http://www.tineye.com/

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Free BVH Files (Read more...)

The Carnegie-Mellon motion capture library has been conversed to make it compatible with the Daz (daz3d.com) 3rd-generation and 4th-generation characters such as Aiko3, Aiko4, Victoria3, Victoria4, Michael3, Michael4, and so on. Over 2500 separate BVH files are available, with an index.

You can get the files at:

http://sites.google.com/a/cgspeed.com/cgspeed/motion-capture/daz-friendly-release

Or you can go to www.cgspeed.com and follow the Motion Capture link from the left-side navigation bar.

All of the files are free, and they're bundled into a small number of ZIP files.

Training videos:

Part 1: http://www.vimeo.com/13777740

Part 2: http://www.vimeo.com/13777422

Xnormal: Generate Your Maps (Read more...)

Xnormal is an application with interesting texturing features:

Generates normal, ambient occlusion and displacement maps.

If you have a high poly model, it can also take its texture and project it into the lowpoly version of that mesh, even if it has different topology (different polygons).

Includes a 3D viewer that has shaders and realtime shadows and glow effects.

Comes with some useful tools like height map - normal map - cavity map - occlusion - tangent/object space and spherical harmonics tools.

Xnormal is free and just asks for bug reports, feedback, mention it in the things you do with it, or just send them examples of art made with it.

http://www.xnormal.net/