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Academic Research Paper on OpenSim Community
While the nature of the firm has long been established as the dominant form of organizing for value creation, emergent forms of organizing such as the private-collective community model have recently gained attention from researchers and practitioners. Little is known about how such communities, where private goods from stakeholders are shared and freely distributed among a … [Read more...] about Academic Research Paper on OpenSim Community
Virtual reality contact lenses beam images directly into your eyes
Contact lenses which focus 3D screens directly into people's eyeballs could be on sale as early as 2014, says U.S. company Innovega. The tiny 'screens' sit directly on users' eyeballs and work with a pair of lightweight glasses with a built-in translucent screen. The experience is equivalent to a 240-inch television viewed at a distance of 10 feet, says Innovega's CEO Steve … [Read more...] about Virtual reality contact lenses beam images directly into your eyes
Virtual dummy makes designing clothes easy
Creating the pattern for a new dress design can be fiddly, so Amy Wibowo at the University of Tokyo, Japan, is using augmented reality to make it simpler. Six ceiling-mounted cameras are trained on the dummy and on two tools held by the designer, one for creating surfaces and other for cutting them. The tools and the dummy both have markers, so the cameras can work out where in … [Read more...] about Virtual dummy makes designing clothes easy
Second Life’s greatest strengths are also its greatest weaknesses
If I were to make a list of the top three things that are responsible for Second Life being as great as it is – and that is exactly what I’m doing today – it would read equally well as a list of things that hold Second Life back.Via dwellonit.taterunino.net … [Read more...] about Second Life’s greatest strengths are also its greatest weaknesses