[X3D-Public] The Great Media Convergence

[steve guynup]

Hi Len,

Do keep running with this idea of stagecraft-machinima etc.
My own work in education will likely need to embed small scale simulations with human actors - at some point. So an affordable X3D/VRML tool that supports even the most primitive staging will have value for me and others in education.

regards
Steve


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--- On Fri, 4/10/09, Len Bullard <cbullard at hiwaay.net> wrote:

> From: Len Bullard <cbullard at hiwaay.net>
> Subject: [X3D-Public] The Great Media Convergence
> To: x3d-public at web3d.org
> Date: Friday, April 10, 2009, 1:30 AM
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> The great media
> convergence is at
> hand at last.  It is X3D.   We win. 
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> MP3s and mpgs from services to
> social networked
> gadgets to real time 3D worlds with avatars, video, audio
> and other animation
> in real time with real audio.
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> That is PDC! It’s ALL
> THERE NOW! Done. On the
> street. A band can sign up with say three services and at
> the other end have
> all of the services needed to broadcast, share,
> communicate, blast and sell,
> but more importantly because of the 3D setups, meet in
> rooms, work on songs,
> hold listening parties and video release parties. Soon
> we’ll be able to
> do full stage setups for band AND machinima. It could
> always do non-linear.
> Soon building these will not be hostage to the vertex
> economy. Stage craft is emerging
> in 3D.
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> Maybe it’s because
> I’m stringing these
> together for the first time now in the Vivaty embedded
> worlds in Facebook, but
> it is really no mystery that this is the biggest juju to
> come to culture in a
> long long time. This is a whole new medium. A lot of old
> rules are breaking and
> we don’t know which ones won’t yet.
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> So far, it behaves as predicted,
> like an ecosystem of
> cooperative services extended by open APIs using simple
> forms widgets to set
> properties and choose privileges.
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> It’s neat. It’s
> easy. It’s fun.
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> Requires product but if you
> don’t get that far,
> none of it matters. In the end, the Interrregnum is one of
> information economy
> scale over means of information production coupled to a
> self-selecting adaptive
> consumer ecosystem. It is Arabesque.
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> It is free. For how
> long?
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