Posts Tagged ‘ virtual worlds ’
Check out this rather impressive imagining of virtual world construction in a fully tangible VR / AR environment. The interface used is quite cool and inspirational, but there’s a lot of funky interface videos out there, and the basic idea of creating worlds from within isn’t new; Snow Crash has this sort of thing, and, to [ READ MORE ]
In Second Life, everything is made from primitives – cubes, cylinders, prisms and so forth that you can place together to create pretty much anything. There’s a size limit of 10×10x10 metres that’s sometimes a real pain in the arse. I’d heard of something called megaprims that allow you to make much larger blocks (for walls [ READ MORE ]