TILTING AT WINDBAGS: OR WHY I LOVE PROKOFY NEVA
This post has very little to do with MellaniuM and not a little to do with Prokovy Neva. The heart of the matter starts with a chat I had with my dentist which affected me much more that any...
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL SERENDIPITY?
Just imagine wandering at your leisure through a recreation of Athens or Rome at the height of their power and influence. At MellaniuM our very "raison d'etre" could be distilled as the creation, nay,...
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MELLANIUM CAVEUT WORKSHOP AT UCLAN
In collaboration with ADSIP (Applied Digital Signal and Image Processing Research Centre) at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston UK MellaniuM has successfully employed the CAVEUT software (...
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MELLANIUM: INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY
Granite Batholith under CornwallCould you imagine that MellaniuM virtual realistic environments would ever connect industrial cultural heritage and a massive intrusion of granite under the South-West...
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MELLANIUM LAUNCHES DOTVIDI.COM
The premise of dotvidi.com is that it will offer an independent web portal for all of the world’s principal heritage. Contributors, stakeholders and advocates worldwide all combine to develop and...
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3D IMMERSIVE CONVERGENCE IS NIGH
NORTEL has just launched the Lenovo eLounge, beta prototype of their web.alive browser-based 3D immersive platform. It is based on the UNREAL 2.5 engine and has garnered praise for both the quality of...
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MellaniuM: Level Loading
It will come as no surprise to several of you out there that we can now unveil our first globally accessible 3D environment available through the innovative NORTEL web.alive delivery system Could you...
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MELLANIUM "DE FACTO" AT LAST
There now exists a 24/7 MellaniuM realistic virtual environment that is "actually" here to stay. This showcase illustrates the major concepts we have been attempting to convey for the last four years....
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MELLANIUM AND THE TEMPLE OF HORUS COMPLEX
The Unreal engine has been promoted in the past as a complete solution for the accurate rendering of archaeological reconstructions and museum exhibits. However until the advent of the UNREAL engine...
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ONE SMALL STEP FOR MELLANIUM: ONE TITANIC LEAP FOR VIRTUAL WORLDS
NORTEL's web.alive is now hosting a MellaniuM environment which not only contains models with well over one million polygons but also supports anti-aliasing for superbly rendered immersive quality and...
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COME ONE, COME ALL! TAKE A LOAD OFF.
The latest MellaniuM environment has illustrated the radical proposition that high polygon models can be imported into the NORTEL web.alive web-browser client. http://ec3v3.projectchainsaw.com/ .The...
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ThinkBalm Goes Web.Alive
ThinkBalm were one of the first to conceptualize the "Immersive Internet" as a 3D virtual space to do business. They have studied in detail all the platforms which have emerged and are still emerging;...
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VORSPRUNG DURCH TECHNIK: IBM AND WEB.ALIVE
So IBM are present in a range of 3D web accessible platforms and now they are assessing NORTEL's web.alive client. So has this application anything really new to offer? Is it just a poor first cousin...
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Mellanium: Casino Bar Prototype
Let's just imagine for a moment that in the near future we will be shopping and browsing in a 3D online store with several friends. Will it will be necessary to have a significant range of items on...
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DINOSAURS AND THE GRONSTEDT GROUP MEETING; AVAYA AT VOICECON and LAVAL-VIRTUEL
Several rather exciting developments to report on this week. First of all the Dinosaur Lounge was launched on the new SIP cloud server system of AVAYA elucidating finally the level of detailed...
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THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS WEB.ALIVE
Web.alive has been treated in some ways like a red headed stepson although its pedigree is impeccable being based on the mighty UNREAL 2.5 engine a proven, robust and well-encrypted platform. NORTEL...
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WEB.ALIVE 2.5 LAUNCHES
AVAYA really is serious about immersive collaboration using the web.alive platform. Not only has web.alive launched commercially with a 2.5 version with improved HD spatial audio but new features such...
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IEEE STANDARDS WORKING GROUP MEETING IN MELLANIUM OFFICES
Andrew Hughes, President of Designing Digitally, kindly arranged to have a meeting of the IEEE STANDARDS Working Group in the web.alive office of MellaniuM at 4pm. EST on Friday 24th Sept. Tom Starai,...
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PTAKE A RIDE ON A PTERANODON
YAMAHA DIRT BIKE (HD 3D RENDERING) MellaniuM is now offering tours of several environments illustrating the range of possibilities using high definition models in the new web.alive 2.5. Dimensionally...
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SOFTLY, SOFTLY, CATCHEE MONKEY
It has to be admitted that AVAYA's web.alive has not been launched with a fanfare of brass or a modern rendition of Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance". In fact quite the opposite in some cases. I am sure...
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