D-Briefs: State Dept. in SL, 3D Printing, More
A couple of events to briefly note today, including a new presence in the virtual world of Second Life, the U.S. State Department. Also, 3D printers are getting cheaper, but even the “home” versions remain prohibitive. Plus some microelectronics that could prove awfully cool someday.
• The U.S. State Department
will holdheld an eventtodayyesterday in Second Life to discuss Accessibility in the 3-D Environment: Virtual Worlds and People with Disabilities. Beam in at 11am SL Time (2pm Eastern) »to Public Diplomacy Island« to check it out.• The iCommons Summit kicks off this Friday in Second Life, as well as in the real world. We blogged about this nearly a month ago, so this is just a reminder.
• In fabbing news, Canon will manufacture the V-Flash 3D desktop modeler, which looks like it’s going to be priced around $10,000. Z Corp’s, meanwhile, is going for around $40,000.
• SpaceTime, the so-called “3D” search engine that arranges search results as stacks of pages, reported Tuesday that 100,000 people had downloaded the software in the week it had been available. I was one of them, although I’m not sure I need this functionality. There has to be a simpler way to preview multiple Web pages, but maybe there’s something I’m not seeing here.
• Finally, there’s the world’s thinnest 3-axis accelerometer for motion-based user interfaces. Cool.
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How will the US State Department hold an event today @ 11am SLT when the grid is down until 12?
heh you ask the hard questions, HatHead! I started that post yesterday morning, which was when the event actually took place. Forgot to take it out this morning. Blogosphere 1, Me 0.