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Available for immediate viewing, go watch the leaves moving in the Flower of Life Dome

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Soon to be released as the AVAYA web.alive application it certainly sports some neat detailing:



The latest features of the Web.alive 2.0 beta include :



· drag and drop documents and images into web.alive to make presentations, collaboration, and training easy

· voice just works (even better!) – noise suppression & echo cancellation allows for a great experience with your built-in laptop speakers and microphone

· web rendering – it can render virtual any web… Continue

MellaniuM can announce that they have chalked up another technological first in the virtual world arena. During the conference proceedings of VSSM 2008 Marco St.Pierre , HANDYSCAN 3D Director at CREAFORM3D, who markets hand held scanners for generating 3D models met with Ken Rigby of MellaniuM who are producing virtual realistic environments in the UNREAL platform. The UNREAL platform has some unique attributes for… Continue

MellaniuM is arranging for a workshop to showcase the virtual real worlds concept using the CAVEUT 2.0 software with the EON REALITY immersive system at ADSIP in the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, UK.



http://mellanium13.blogspot.com/2008/08/mellanium-caveut-workshop-at-uclan.html



Please e-mail Ken Rigby at ken.rigby(at)mellanium.com for an invitation to this limited… Continue

As Ken Beyer (www.katsbits.com) so succinctly stated



"If I could be blunt ......... Second Lifers just don't get it in terms of the limitations the (SL) engine has.Like most things to do with online content these people look at it from the wrong end. They like to say they're not games when indeed that's how they should be doing things as game (platforms) have much better grounding in optimization and delivery of content"



YOU NAILED IT KEN… Continue

MellaniuM has successfully rendered some archaeological assets into UNREAL. This feat opens up the real possibility that classes will be taught history on a series of PC's networked in a LAN by taking guided virtual tours around the Acropolis in 440 BC or the Forum Romanum in 330 AD. Pompeii will be resurrected as a flourishing town with sumptuous villas and theatres.…









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It was a pleasure to present over SKYPE using our INTERVERSAL technology some of our environments to Chadrick Baker.

He blogged about the experience here at:

http://crowvalen.com/2008/04/09/virtually-unreal/

If you would like a similar personal presentation, please call me at joe133952

Just figured out myself that the Internet is the best of tools and the worst of tools? Who can find anything that is really useful?Why do we have to wade through so much of the Slough of Despond before we find a few nuggets of true worth? I must post these links for anyone who wants some data to ponder.



PONDER AWAY ARRIVE AT YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS!



REAL TIME SL STATISTICS…



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For a sample of MellaniuM VRW's click on this link "THE INVOCATION OF THOTH"





Shawn Graham noted blogger on education in SL "Electric Archaeology: Digital Media for Learning and Research" commented on the promise of MellaniuM. One could say he is a modern day archaeological Janus, looking adeptly into… Continue