Dunno about you, but I've seen plenty of 3D TV and video at various trade shows (and, of course, movies in the cinema) and can well do without it.
For example, Pixar's Up finally starts here in Japan today and I had planned to take my son to see it for his first cinema trip, but it's only available round these parts in 3D, which is really not suitable for a two-year-old (the glasses, you see). Too bad...
"The Furia is to the Gallardo what the Reventon is to the Murcielago." The concept is the work of Amadou Ndiaye, an industrial design student at the University of Montreal.
Some really nice animations that work with each letter. I like the way the letters are thought of as canvases for the motion graphics to work with.
In an effort to beat Google at mapping, Microsoft Bing will use crowd-sourced photos to create a 3-D virtual worlds in its Maps application, the company has told FastCompany.com. The 3-D models will eventually be knitted into Bing Maps' existing aerial and street-views and will allow users to explore and zoom at a level of detail that Google and Yahoo Maps can't presently match. An exclusive screenshot of the new technology, which goes live Wednesday, shown above.
How It Works
The secret sauce behind this new iteration of Bing Maps is Microsoft Photosynth, software that analyzes digital pictures and generates a three-dimensional model of the photographed area, as well as a "point cloud" that helps the system integrate new images. Think of a Photosynth (or "synth," in Redmond parlance) as one of those 3-D video tours, except with dozens or hundreds of cameras contributing detail at every level. The effect is mind-blowing.
Unity 2.6.1
Improvements:
- The Mac webplayer has been rewritten to be compatible with 64-bit Safari on Mac OS X 10.6.
- Reduced time spent connecting to large Asset Server projects.
Editor Fixes:
- Fixed an editor crash when painting trees in the free version of Unity.
- Fixed an FBX import crash bug which could happen with some assets.
- Fixed rendering of terrain details in the editor after a player has been built.
- The Draw checkbox for trees and details in the terrain inspector now remembers it's setting.
- Fixed ImportAssetOptions.ImportRecursive (it didn't do anything before).
- Fixed a bug where the terrain lightmapper would render shadows incorrectly.
- Fixed an error message about asset timestamp counts that sometimes showed up after saving the project.
- Fixed warning when deleting a TerrainData asset which is used in the scene.
- Fixed a bug in which Input.GetMouseButton() would fail in the Editor on Windows, when the game view is detached from the main window.
- Fixed a bug where selecting text with the mouse would deselect the asset when renaming assets in the Project View.
- Fixed an Editor crash when pressing the gear menu on the default references of a script on Windows.
- Editor Search string now resets when objects not matching the search filter are selected.
- Unity will now highlight prefabs in Project view when selecting the prefab from the GameObject Inspector.
- Fixed an editor crash when trying to compare against a non existent asset in the Asset Server history view.
- Fixed an editor crash when passing an invalid prefab reference to EditorUtility.ReplacePrefab().
Runtime Fixes:
Web Player Fixes:
- Fixed a runtime crash when changing screen size or FSAA settings when RenderTexture assets are used.
- Fixed more than 2 Image Filters being upside down on Windows when Anti-Aliasing was used.
- Fix GUI toggles drawing with the wrong state when on.
- Fixed a regression which broke WWW.LoadImageIntoTexture() in some cases.
- Fixed AudioSoruce.ignoreListenerVolume to work again.
- Fixed a bug which could cause gamepad input to get lost on Windows when multiple gamepads are connected.
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- Fixed switching from one fullscreen resolution to another in the windows web plugin on Vista.
great stuff, go get it.
Lasers were fired at the town from the ground and from the air to capture the height of buildings, trees and other features, using a technique called Lidar. Adding information from aerial photos and traditional surveys produced a full-colour 3D map, built up from more than 700 million points. The map is accurate to 4 centimetres in x, y and z - by comparison 3D structures in Google Earth are accurate to about 15 metres. "It's almost what you'd see if you flew around the area," says Hart. See a video of the map, above.
