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2012-05-07

TheBlu: World's First Social Digital Ocean App

"theBlu", social digital ocean app launched

NEW YORK: Wemo Media, the Venice, CA-based entertainment studio, on friday, 4 May 2012, announced the launch of "theBlu," a globally shared art and entertainment experience. Inspired by the world's oceans, "theBlu" is a living and breathing digital art exhibit of ocean habitats and species, created by artists and developers from all over the world.

Source: "theBlu", social digital ocean app launched

Wemo Media

The Blu

The Blu is a global mission to create the ocean on the web as a globally shared media experience. It is a beautiful interactive online world where every species and habitat is a unique work of art created by digital artists and developers around the world. The Blu is a geosocial web application where people connect across the Internet and explore a vast ocean on the web. Check it out...

Source: Wemo Media

TheBlu User Intro Video - YouTube

Source: TheBlu User Intro Video - YouTube

TheBlu - Screensaver

What is theBlu?
Inspired by the Oceans, theBlu is a socially-connected, global interactive screensaver. Each time you participate, your interactions and connections impact the flow of life in theBlu and everyone's experience of it.
TheBlu is created and curated Academy Award-winning leaders and world-class artists and developers - we call them Makers. Each time you purchase beautiful species and habitats to add to the globally-connected Ocean, you support oceanic conservation.
Once you install theBlu screensaver, you can:

Explore and experience a beautiful online 3D underwater world as easily as browsing the Web.

Connect and interact with your friends via Facebook and go diving together in theBlu.

Have fun learning about the Oceans because theBlu is both entertaining and educational.

Support oceanic conservation each time you purchase 3D species and habitat art work.

TheBlu is available on Mac and PC. It requires a one-time, one-click, quick download. TheBlu will soon be available on iPad, iPhone, Android and other devices. (read more about our tech specs)

Source: TheBlu - Screensaver

Related

2008-07-10

Google Launches Lively -- 3D Virtual World

Google's just launched Lively is a 3-D simulation application where users can customize avatars and create environments (rooms) with stuff they pick from a product catalog. The environments can also be embedded in blogs or web sites.

clipped from www.lively.com

Create an avatar and chat with your friends in rooms you design

clipped from www.youtube.com

Lively by Google is a new product available in Google Labs. Create an avatar and chat with your friends in rooms you design.

clipped from www.readwriteweb.com

clipped from www.lively.com

Create your own virtual space

Express yourself

Add your room to your site

clipped from news.yahoo.com

Google ventures into virtual reality with 'Lively'

Google thinks Lively will encourage even more people to dive into alternate realities because it isn't tethered to one Web site like Second Life, and it doesn't cost anything to use. After installing a small packet of software, a user can enter Lively from other Web sites, like social networking sites and blogs.

The Lively application already works on Facebook, one of the Web's hottest hangouts, and Google is working on a version suitable for an even larger online social network, News Corp.'s MySpace.

clipped from www.sizlopedia.com

Google Lively: 3D Interactive Virtual World

clipped from www.eweek.com

Google Gives Virtual Reality a Second Life

2008-04-22

Apple store in Second Life?

A patent filing by Apple is prompting speculation that the company could be getting ready to open up Apple stores in Second Life.

clipped from techdigest.tv

Apple looking to create a virtual shopping world?

A patent filed by Apple suggests they could be looking to building a virtual shopping complex where customers, represented by avatars, can shop and interact with one another and with staff.

clipped from www.infoworld.com

Apple plots Second Life-like online store

Patent filing suggests Apple plans to make shopping at Apple Store or iTunes a more immersive virtual experience

The company has filed patent with the US Patent and Trademark office for an Enhanced Online Shopping Atmosphere, as originally
noted by MacNN.

clipped from appft1.uspto.gov

Enhancing online shopping atmosphere

Abstract

Representing activity in an online store is disclosed. Information
associated with the activities of a second visitor to the store is
received. An indication of the presence of a first visitor at the store
is also received. The activities of the second visitor are displayed to
the first visitor.

clipped from www.macnn.com

Will Apple open a store in Second Life?

clipped from www.youtube.com

March 08, 2007

Second Life Apple Store

2008-01-11

Dryad, Stanford's 3D virtual world of trees

clipped from www.kurzweilai.net

Stanford builds a better virtual world, one tree (or millions) at a time

Stanford researchers are out to prove that object construction in virtual worlds can be sophisticated without being difficult.

clipped from physorg.com

By navigating with a mouse through an infinite number of trees on Dryad, virtual world enthusiasts can create the trees of their dreams. Credit: Stanford University

clipped from dryad.stanford.edu

Dryad lets you intuitively create beautiful trees for your virtual world or
game. In Dryad, you create a tree by visually navigating to it through a
design space: the space of all trees. This space has close to a hundred
dimensions and Dryad lets you move around it as if it were a city map. To
help you find your way, Dryads around the world communicate to share which trees were picked in the past. A collaborative mapping of the tree space emerges, which your Dryad uses to gently steer you towards high-qualityfinds. We call this collaborative design space exploration.

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