Is the future of virtual worlds inside the browser, or will the rich, client-based become the dominant model for virtual worlds? Not even a week after a lengthy discussion on my previous post on this topic, some major clues arrived to the scene as to how this ‘war over the metaverse’ is about to unfold [...]

Posted on: August 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »

 
I came across an excellent post by Jonas Karlsson cleverly titled “I’m in ur browser, chatting in 3D” (A pun on the internet-famous LOLcats). The topic of the post is the recent flood of 3D virtual worlds running inside the browser (Lively/WebFlock), providing very little besides the option to ‘interact’ with other users through chat. [...]

Posted on: July 28, 2008 | No Comments »

Another update from our Russian friends over at Alternativa 3D. They have made a massive breaktrough in bringing virtual worlds to the browser. By using the latest Flash 10 player (currently in Beta, download it over here) they have managed to improve the rendering of 3D to the graphics card. Instead of using a technique [...]

Posted on: May 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Last week Second Life introduced HTML, allowing webpages to be displayed within the client on 3Dobjects, but It didn’t take long for the web to retaliate introducing ‘Virtual Environments on a Webpage’. Using Flash Papervision3D (No special plug-in required but Flashplayer 8.0, installed on 95% of the systems) Nike created the Virtual Hotel Suite [...]

Posted on: March 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Interesting months ahead for the gaming industry. The big gaming news of Q1 2008 was EA announcing its plans to release its FPS game Battlefield Heroes for free. It offers the game as a free download, and supports it trough micro-payments (you can buy in-game bonuses for real money or pay monthly fees for premium [...]

Posted on: February 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »