"The OpenlifeGrid.com (3DX) is pleased to announce our collaborative effort with RealXtend towards creating a better virtual world."
In a historical milestone we are pleased to announce the collaboration of RealXtend & New 3DX Teams working together on the evolutionary RealXtend based Server & Viewer for 3D environments- creating a solid stable platform with advanced features. This will result in a more enriched immersive 3D Virtual World for end users.
"This announcement delivers a next generation experience for our users and a committed footting in the next generation of Virtual World technologies. We're excited to be working so closely with the RealXtend team, we'll be taking on feedback from our users directly to the development table, the resulting experience is going to be nothing short of incredible."
-Steve Sima, Openlife Grid (3DX) Founder & President.
"The realXtend project is committed to excellence in user experience and stability. We are glad to collaborate with the New 3DX Team to create a better virtual world. This joint effort is one of the first steps of the new immersive Internet. We at realXtend welcome the 30 000 users of Openlife and hope they enjoy the experience!"
-Jani Pirkola, RealXtend Program Manager
The public beta arriving this weekend will give end users a chance to experience some of these new technologies and submit feedback and issue reporting before integration to the 'live' Openlife Grid.
Some of these new technologies include:
-LoginGRID GAS (authentication & scene to scene transport framework)
-Avatar 2.0 (advanced next generation Avatar System, including 'real' face texture mapping)
-Support for OGRE.MESH 3D Objects (Import 3D Modelled objects from sources including blender, google sketchup and other 3D modelling packages)
-Python Scripting
-Avatar to Avatar Private Skype Calling
-In world Spatial Audio Voice support.
Our primary 'live' virtual world will experience the full benefit of this new collaboration after the integration and testing phase is complete. The Openlife sees these new developments as a win - win for Openlife users and the advancement of the 3D web a big step closer to reality.
[For Immediate Release]
[Authorized: Steve Sima - Openlifegrid.com]
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