WebGL Water

Evan Wallace’s WebGL demo that shows a water simulation with raytraced reflections and refraction is fantastic! It does need OES_texture_float, though, so you’ll need Chrome or the latest Firefox release. OPEN THIS LINK TO TRY IT INTERACTIVELY

Another Free App - Autodesk 123D Sculpt

As a supplement to their free 3D modeling program, 123D. Autodesk has introduce Autodesk 123D Sculpt for the iPad.
via: SolidSmack

CryENGINE 3 SDK, core of Crytek’s technology, is now available for free for non-commercial works

Anyone can now download a full version of the best All-In-One Game Development Engine, for free and use it without charge for non-commercial game development. You can try out the fastest toolset for creating game worlds and use the power of CryENGINE 3 in your own games.

Source and to download (658MB) ->> HERE.

1. Is the CryENGINE 3 SDK really free to use?
Yes. Anyone can now download a full version of the best All-In-One Game Development Engine, for free and use it without charge for non-commercial game development. If you are distributing your game or application for free (and not charging for your work in producing it, whether directly or indirectly), no additional license is required. If you are looking to use CryENGINE 3 for a commercial game or in any way that is not specifically allowed in the End User License Agreement (EULA), you must contact Crytek to agree on commercial terms and a license for your use.

2. Is it the same Engine Crytek use in their Games?
Yes, we’ll be giving you access to an up to date version of CryENGINE 3 – the engine we use, the engine we give to our licensees and the same engine that powers Crysis®2 and Warface®. This will be a complete version of our technology including C++ game code access, our content exporters, script samples, new improved Flowgraph and a host of great asset examples, which will allow teams to build complete games from scratch for PC. Some features, such as DirectX11 have not been implemented into the Free SDK yet, but will be coming very soon.

Draping cloth

Marvelous Designer is a CG cloth-making app that allows the user to cut cloth patterns as fashion designers would before draping and sewing them around an “avatar” (an A-posed character). MD is first and foremost an amazing cloth simulation engine, with striking real-time capability.
Source:http://bertrand-benoit.com/blog/2011/08/13/marvelous-d-road-tested/

Small Changes

Real Life or Second Life?

Having trouble saying what you mean? Microsoft’s design team has fashioned a dress for the introverts and oversharers in the crowd. The Printing Dress, as it’s called, is the most recent invention in the dilatory movement of wearable technology.

The dress, a classic A-line silhouette with a sweetheart neckline, lets the tongue-tied wearer type out messages on a corset keyboard to be projected onto a glowing white skirt for all to read. “Now we are what we tweet,” designer Asta Roseway told ElectricFoxy. As a shout-out to old-school media (what’s a newspaper?!) the dress is made almost exclusively of paper, save for the obvious electronics. The dress won Best in Show and Best Concept at the International Symposium on Wearable Computers in San Francisco last month.

Source:TheDaily.com

Avatars versis Real Identities

At the MetaMeets conference in Amsterdam Roland Legrand interviewedhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif Tim Gorree, IT Solution Architect at Nokia, about avatars:
source: https://www.mixedrealities.com/