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One of the canards about open source is that it only produces hardcore hacker programs - dev tools, infrastructural stuff etc. - that have l...

Is out : As a follow-up to the successful project Orange’s “Elephants Dream”, the Blender Foundation initiated another open movie project. A...

One of the recurrent themes on this blog is the transition from a world of analogue content to one that is purely digital - and hence trivia...

Blender has always been one of my favourite open source projects, not least for the inspirational way money was raised by the common folk ...

Well, no, not really: actually, it's much more impressive : Quakr is a project to build a 3-dimensional world from user contributed phot...

I. Am. Gobsmacked . (Via Techcrunch .)

Sounds cool : The University of Michigan 3D Lab has brought Second Life one step closer to real life by developing stereoscopic support for ...

This is spot-on : The kids who have pushed MySpace to the limit are looking for the next cool place to hang out on the Internet, and they’re...

How can anyone resist this sort of thing ? Go on, live a little: you know it makes sense.

...now that Google Earth is there. Even though I've been writing about the coming convergence of online games, virtual worlds, and 3D sy...

I've written before about the example of Blender , and how it was freed from its proprietary shackles. Now it seems that another model...

As a Brit, my childhood summers always had the Wimbledon tennis championship as a kind of vague backdrop; this seems to have inoculated me a...

People often ask: "but what's Second Life for ?" Maybe this is the answer : IBM, which recently set up a business group to ex...

Apparently , Google Earth now has a layer that includes user-generated buildings: What you get is the best of 3D Warehouse 's textured b...

...are condemned to release again it ten years later. I was interest to read that Sun has launched its Looking Glass interface. Not just ...

As perceptive readers of this blog may have noticed, there's been an increasing number of stories about the rise of 3D technologies in c...

Once this kind of thing becomes commonplace, there's no stopping the 3D wave. (Via TechCrunch .)

Something that seems to have everything going for it: Ajax3D. Yup: Ajax meets 3D - or X3D , to be more precise . Here's what a rather ...

At first sight, there's something appropriate about Paul Allen paying for the Allen Brain Atlas : an interactive, genome-wide image dat...

Blender is one of the jewels in the open source crown. As its home page puts it: Blender is the open source software for 3D modeling, anim...