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Immersive Environments using Web.Alive
Main features of the Unrea… Continue
Posted on November 9, 2009 at 11:25am —
Serious Games as Immersive Internet
http://seriousgamesmarket.blogspot.com/2009/10/serious-games-as-immersive-internet.html
Applications
http://mellanium.co.uk/application-areas.php… Continue
Posted on November 3, 2009 at 11:24am —
MellaniuM Virtual Reality Worlds for the Immersive Internet
http://mellanium.co.uk/application-areas.php
MellaniuM Dome
http://ec3v3.projectchainsaw.com
Apex
http://apex.projectchainsaw.com
Posted on October 26, 2009 at 6:38pm —
MellaniuM Apartments:the way in
Posted on February 22, 2009 at 10:26am —
MellaniuM Apartments
Find more videos like this on Serious Games - The Serious Games Networking Portal
A sneak preview of the MellaniuM Apartments soon to be released on web,alive virtual world platform.
MellaniuM Continue
Posted on February 18, 2009 at 8:13pm —
MellaniuM and the eLounge Experience.
* Create your own personal avatar
* Browse and interact with our virtual products
* Walk around and share your experience with customers from around the globe
* Get support from one of our virtual avatar product speciali… Continue
Posted on February 16, 2009 at 11:51am —
MellaniuM to create content for Web.alive
Web.alive is a virtual world software application that provides an enterprise ready, network secured virtual world platform for collaboration, assisted E-Commerce and virtual learning & training applications. web.alive is embedded directly within a web page ensuring users do not have to leave the site to launch the virtual world. Combining stunning 3D graphics and unparalleled in-world… Continue
Posted on February 15, 2009 at 3:03pm —
MellaniuM and the CaveUT Project.
Mellanium has started to port its 3D environment Virtual Real World products into the CAVEUT . CAVEUT is an open source freeware project to make tele-immersive projection-based virtual reality affordable and accessible.
CAVEUT is available in various versions from simple home made to advanced real-time spatial tracking and stereo graphic imaging. By employing a commercially available 3D engine (UE2-3) richly detailed graphics, high-speed performan… Continue
Posted on July 8, 2008 at 12:48pm —
Forward to Tele3DWorld Immersion.
As prices of computing hardware falls and software standardization and reusability becomes common place, like the computers of yesterday, the tele-immersive systems of today will also become available to the general public. Along with this is expected to become a powerful drive into tele-immersive application development in all applicable areas. There also exists the possibility for future application of tele-immersion in some new areas like Music Synthesis, Psy… Continue
Posted on July 6, 2008 at 1:25am —
New Media: are the Virtual Real Worlds the New Media?
Surely Web2.0 is now old media.
The new media will be immersive 3D environments; using the technology developed by the CGI, gaming, and film industries will be the future media.
We need to start preparing for this rather than the 2D text, images and flashy flashy web sites with no content; just a front office metaphor.
I believe we should start planning now for the future revolution; we are at the beginning of a wave of change that will completely change… Continue
Posted on June 26, 2008 at 9:34am —
MellaniuM Presentation to TSB; 10th June 2008
Posted on June 14, 2008 at 12:04am —
Relive Rome™: Walk in the footsteps of Marcus Vitruvius.
What was it really like to live in the ancient Rome; Caput Mundi was the center of the world, with its mad emperors, brutal entertainment and its seductive lifestyles?
Through Relive Rome™, it is expected that 10 million people a year worldwide will experience the city’s past, tele-immersed in th… Continue
Posted on June 5, 2008 at 10:00pm —
Titanic Virtually Unreal
I’ve just been given a demo of a Virtual Space by Joe Rigby of Mellanium Studios, where they’ve created a live scale replica of the Titanic using the Unreal 2 engine and roughly 850,000 polygons. It’s quite impressive. Check it out, more info after the Video.
Mellanium looks to be creating Serious games, and focused on education based games, and their work seems to be really good. They claim to be able to put roughl… Continue
Posted on April 10, 2008 at 2:18pm —
MellaniuM to create Virtual Real Worlds for Autistic Research.
Virtual Real Worlds are to be used to simulate new 3D environments for people in the autistic spectrum. For people with autism, VRWs are way of setting up realistic social situations that might be encountered in their everyday lives. For people who have social, emotional, communicational problems VRWs can enable them to familiarise with a simulated situational environment before actually experiencing in real life.
MellaniuM design… Continue
Posted on April 4, 2008 at 11:21pm —
MellaniuM to conduct feasibility on 5 Axis Hand-Held Controller.
Any computer user will tell you just how important it is to use a good controller while experiencing Virtual Real Worlds. While keyboards or two-button mice are sufficient for environments that contain minimal control options, the advent of first-person perspective environments has forced users to look for user friendly options. The 5 Axis controller is the solution to all such problems.
Initially it doesn't look very different f… Continue
Posted on March 2, 2008 at 11:03am —
MELLANIUM: VIRTUAL ARCHITECTURE
people need to share principles, concepts, impressions, designs and
commitment. Architects have toiled relentlessly to render their vision
to meld form and function but drawings, models and blueprints are poor
substitutes for a real sense of "being there". Do you think they have
ever dreamt that they could project themselves and their clients,
builders, developers and inspirational colleagues into a replica of a
“virtually perfe… Continue
Posted on February 10, 2008 at 10:36am —
What MellaniuM and the 3D MMO Virtual Real Worlds can do for you,
forever reshape learning, entertainment, and business. You'd have to
try very hard to avoid exposure to the virtual real world phenomenon
these days. Virtual Real Worlds are going to be the new-big thing. VRW
enthusiasts spend many hours a day surrounded by 0's and 1's. It's not
out of bounds to ask how much of this virtual stuff is real. After all,
we don't want to find ourselves in the position of the chairman of the
compan… Continue
Posted on January 24, 2008 at 11:45am —
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Immersive Environments using Web.Alive
Main features of the Unrea… Continue
Posted by Ken Rigby (MellaniuM, Tele3dworld) on November 9, 2009 at 11:25am
Serious Games as Immersive Internet
http://seriousgamesmarket.blogspot.com/2009/10/serious-games-as-immersive-internet.html
Applications
http://mellanium.co.uk/application-areas.php… Continue
Posted by Ken Rigby (MellaniuM, Tele3dworld) on November 3, 2009 at 11:24am
MellaniuM Virtual Reality Worlds for the Immersive Internet
http://mellanium.co.uk/application-areas.php
MellaniuM Dome
http://ec3v3.projectchainsaw.com
Apex
http://apex.projectchainsaw.com
Posted by Ken Rigby (MellaniuM, Tele3dworld) on October 26, 2009 at 6:38pm
PHP Versus Dot Net
By Nitin Tripathi
One of the most confusing decisions that IT policy makers of companies come across is which way to go .NET or PHP. Both have their merits and limitations. Deciding one is entirely dependant upon your budget, technical skills, requirements and your overall corporate methodology.
PHP is the most popular open source programming language used to build web-sites that rely upon dynamic content. PHP is free and so are almost all of its supporting tools, platforms,… Continue
Posted by Dr. Gufran on July 22, 2009 at 6:06am
PHP Tutorials For Beginners is What You Need
By Ellis Jackson Jr
Creating your first website can be both fun and rewarding. Using HTML seems easy enough so you build your site around it. The problem you may have is that their is only so much you can do with this language. You need PHP on your website to make it more functional. But PHP seems so hard to understand. A PHP tutorial for beginners would be nice to have but is it really worth the effort to make the chance to PHP?
The good thing abou… Continue
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Filed under: Animation, Machinima — overman @ 11:07 am
Joe Rigby of Mellanium (previously talked about here) gave me a guided tour of their product recently. There are many things to be excited about with this technology, but one of the most significant breakthroughs is with regard to the quality of 3d models. Since its inception, real-time 3d rendering’s trade-off has been low poly models - a necessary evil which is ever so slowly becoming less of an issue. (See Mass Effect, UT3). Finding ways around this limitation has been a bit of a holy grail for machinima in some circles.
Mellanium’s modification of the game environment allows the introduction of Autocad-quality (very high detail) 3d models into the UT2004 engine, while still keeping performance speeds / client machine specs very reasonable (i.e. close to the specs already required to run that game).
During the walkthrough, I got to see highly detailed player models, exquisite Autocad props, and all within the kind of large open environments Unreal has always been so good at rendering; I noticed no lag. The video below shows the kind of detail I’m talking about. If they can do this in UT2004… imagine what they’ll be able to do in UT3 if they port their tools over there?
My Zimbio
3D virtual real worlds (VRWs) are virtual spaces where multiple users can reside and communicate with each other in an online 3D environment. Virtual real worlds ( from Tele3DWorld) are focused on hundreds and even thousands of simultaneously occurring processes that are not obligatorily interconnected. Sounds, animations, hi-resolution textures and hi-poly meshes produce a realistic atmosphere or environment that resembles realistically the real world in great detail.
In order to join the 3D virtual real world community it is necessary to select a 3D avatar who will represent the persons persona in the 3D environment. After that the avatar can move around the 3D world with 6 DOF communicating with other users through personal messages and VoIP. Users may choose different roles provided by a particular virtual real world. For instance, the leading a group in a treasure hunt around the virtual world by teleporting to the various locations (VRW to VRW) through cyberspace.
3D virtual real worlds provide a unique opportunity for people to demonstrate their abilities, to share their experience, knowledge and emotions with other people in a 3D environment recreating specific conditions (either real-life, proposed, or imaginary). 3D virtual real worlds facilitate global interaction between people by providing the space for multi-user scientific conferences, business/design meetings, online trade, shows, workshops, social networks, and other events.
Virtual real worlds serve different purposes, such as entertainment, education, design, maintenance, communication, commerce, etc. They have the ability recreate various environments ranging from virtual shops, offices, and hotels to fantasy worlds created by the human imagination. The applications of virtual real worlds are numerous virtual offices, online classrooms, virtual factories, virtual museums/art galleries, etc. The majority of currently existing virtual worlds are still focused on the gaming and entertainment sector. However they will start switching to various business initiatives to establish a VRW web (teleporting from a 3D VRW to a 3D VRW via cyberspace; rather than from 2D web page to 2D web page).
Advantages:
* Amazing and realistic user experience;
* Worldwide communication and implementation;
* Possibility to create or recreate any desired 3D environment;
* Simultaneous multi-user collaboration for separate groups;
* Simultaneously running processes and actions that affect the virtual real world but will not affect other system users.
Features:
* realistic true perspective 3D environment (first person);
* support of interactive 3D avatars and AI bots;
* communication by speech and text to speech;
* Hi-definition textures and artefacts;
* expandable system architecture (which allows adding new levels and modules);
* integration with other software and platforms.
Greater understanding of the real world will enable a higher truth to be established.
See http://mellanium.com/ for detailed information and supporting articles for additional anecdotes. Skype: id joe133952 for live demonstration.
Copyright © Ken Rigby for Tele3DWorld and MellaniuM Design.
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As senior ludologist at tele3dworld ken researches the 3D to 3D paradigm to improve general awareness/thought and a higher level of consciousness to establish a greater truth to the real world.
http://tele3dworld.com