Comments on: Over-Hyped Blue Mars Still Raises Benchmark for Second Life

By: dusanwriter

dusanwriter — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 05:22:56 +0000

Awww I guess not.

Although I talked w/ Hamlet and otherwise saw masses of people none of whom I really knew haha.

Fascinating time. And the Avatrian stuff is pretty cool btw, keep up the good work.

By: Rodion Resistance

Rodion Resistance — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 05:03:58 +0000

BTW Avatrian had a booth there, right next to Hamlet’s LOL Chenin and Arie were there You guys didn’t bump into each other?

-RODION

By: dusanwriter

dusanwriter — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:51:23 +0000

I’ll check it out Rodion, thanks for the tip. The parts of Blue Mars they were showing at the show were stunning. And for the ladies (and men, why not) they had purses that looked better than the real thing. Good lord, a shoppers paradise, which I guess is the idea. And dead on about the water etc., it was astonishing.

By: Rodion Resistance

Rodion Resistance — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:23:54 +0000

“They might want to use a touch more Windlight though and a little less high rez texturing.”

Dusan, that’s the CryTEK engine. If you haven’t played the game called CRYSIS, I urge you to do so–IMHO nothing comes close to how CRYSIS mimics vegetation, water and atmospherics into the digital form–it simple beats Windlight hands down. But then it has a totally different rendering methodology I supposed.

-RODION

By: Is the Metaverse Less Real if Madison Avenue Says It Ain’t? (Report from the Virtual Worlds Conference) « Dusan Writer’s Metaverse

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:25:06 +0000

[...] is a bubbling little corner of progress. But really? Nothing much is gonna change – not until Blue Mars comes out, at least, and they have a LOT of proof-of-concept before they’re anywhere close, [...]

By: Barbie’s Got Legs, Manning the Barricades at the Linden Booth, and More Tales of the City « Dusan Writer’s Metaverse

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:28:29 +0000

[...] Meet some people making some cool technology, trying to fill out little gaps in the metaverse. Blue Mars is looking pretty hot. There’s a lot of concurrent Flash/3D world stuff going [...]

By: Just a thought « Dusan Writer’s Metaverse

Just a thought « Dusan Writer’s Metaverse — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:49:38 +0000

[...] Curious to think about and see how people are using glow, and how they will use Web objects, to change the richness of environments. Otherwise, we all wait for Blue Mars. [...]

By: Leaving Second Life « Dusan Writer’s Metaverse

Leaving Second Life « Dusan Writer’s Metaverse — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:53:44 +0000

[...] realistic worlds like the coming Blue Mars, and continual improvements like Windlight and Havok, not only make these spaces more compelling, [...]

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The Grid Live » Second Life News for February 23, 2008 — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:03:52 +0000

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By: Rheta Shan

Rheta Shan — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:33:19 +0000

Well, nice looks will get you a lot of interest, but that is all you will get — you nailed that down in your last paragraph . By the way, isn’t there some name for the law that says that the more « realistic » things get, the more the human mind focuses son spotting what is off ? I seem to remember having read something like that once…