Virtual Show Room: November 2005

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

20-20's Kevin Bidner

"FACE TO FACE WITH KEVIN BIDNER" Vice President of Sales for 20-20. Article written by Simon De Groot, August 2004.

Icovia 2D Room Planner used in the residential interior design market

Icovia Space Planner

An example of the Icovia planner is Jordan's. Another example is the Brick.

Icovia has an excellent product with 2 version: "enterprise" version for web sites, and "designer" version for a more sophisticated user who wants more design tools. Their signin/identity system for saving room plans and emailing rooms to friends is setup per client, so their is no mobility like MVM. They also bundle tools to help analyse end users and convert them into potential clients.

Thursday, November 24, 2005

Display Lighting Catalog using 3D Java applet

http://www.dslgroup.com/catalog/index.html

If you drill down you'll get to product pages that who 3d models
of the products. It uses a java applet from
http://www.kaon.com/3DCatalog.html

Friday, November 18, 2005

2D Family Room Planner - Sofastyler.com

Example of a bare bones 2D planner. Requires Java installed on your PC.

True Spectra acquired by Scen7 - Aug. 2003

http://www.serverwatch.com/news/print.php/3065241

Scen7 Infinite Imaging Platform v3.2

http://i-newswire.com/pr22468.html

Bill Gates sees the future in 3D!

Pour son 50ème anniversaire, Bill Gates nous offre sa vision du futur.
Et devinez quoi ... Il la part belle à la 3D !

Patrick Whitney - Illinois Institute of Technology

Professor Patrick Whitney is the director of the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, and is the Steelcase/Robert C. Pew Professor of Design.

Whitney has published and lectured throughout the world about how to make technological innovations more humane, the link between design and business strategy, and methods of designing interactive communications and products.

http://www.id.iit.edu/people/faculty_bios/whitney.html

SkinnyCorp.com creates communities!

Check these 8 ideas for innovative and fun community building:

http://www.skinnycorp.com/ourideas

Thursday, November 17, 2005

Mode virtuelle - La Presse - Nicolas Ritoux

Les personnages de jeux vidéo devraient-ils faire un petit effort dans leur habillement? Sont-ils à la fine pointe de la mode ou totalement ringards? Sont-ils réalistes, excentriques, créatifs? Actuel a demandé à quatre designers québécois ce qu'ils en pensaient: Ève Gravel, Denis Gagnon, Renata Morales et Vincent-Olivier Arsenault.

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20051115/CPACTUEL/511150554/1015/CPACTUEL

Social Shopping at Yahoo

Yahoo calls its new offering the "Shoposphere"; like the blogosphere, it aims to be a world where users connect and link in multiple ways.

http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/3564441

Friday, November 11, 2005

i-cabine - La cabine ingeractive

Mounia showed me this site in France. It has an animated Virtual Model.

http://www.i-cabine.fr/

http://www.i-cabine.fr/demo.1/pop.htm

http://corporate.i-cabine.fr/

Wednesday, November 9, 2005

20-20's Virtual Showroom

http://www.2020technologies.com/us-eng/20-20VirtualShowroom/index.aspx

The Desktop Edition of Virtual Showroom is intended to help you enhance your physical showroom by adding a kiosk or computer to show your customers the products, options and finishes not seen on your showroom floor

3D Garment Creator - Fashion Revolution

3D Garment Creator

Automatically promote your 2D silhouettes to full 3D garment models.

http://www.3dfashionrevolution.com/3d-fashion-revolution-3d-garment-creator.html

Fashion Revolution says:

By 2003 90% of our business was in the apparel and textile industry and so we rebranded as Fashion Revolution.

In 2005 we sold our consultancy and web design business and moved exclusively online, establishing 3Dfashionrevolution.com, specialising in developing our 3D fashion tools for fashion illustrators.

We now have almost 2000 users of our solutions worldwide, ranging from corporates right through to small business's, schools and individuals.

The core engine has been developed by Sky Blue Research from their own game engine:

The 3D Garment Creator series of products has been the primary focus of Sky Blue Research, it has been exclusively commissioned by and developed in partnership with Fashion Revolution (previously known as Burneth Ltd.).

http://skyblueresearch.com/3dgarmentcreator.htm

Fashion Revolution tried to get new code via bounty programming this last September. The bid was for Flash, C/C++, Python. No one responded and the bid was closed after a single week on Sept. 8, 2005.

We are looking at rewriting our software that converts 2D garment drawings to 3D
models.

1 - We need a program that will take a model out of Poser and automatically
create the appropriate data files and templates to enable garments to be drawn
and promoted to 3D to be fitted over the Poser model.

2 - We need the 2D - 3D garment promotion process.

3 - We need to be able to import the finished 3D garment back into Poser.

http://www.projectslist.biz/freelance/Python/a-3d-garment-creator/

Poser is an entry-level 3D package for human form modeling which could really provide a worldwide user base.

http://www.e-frontier.com/go/poser_hpl

Tuesday, November 1, 2005

GirlSpace.com - Cartoon version of Virtual Model

This site generates some exitement by emailing a cartoom virtual model to friends with a story background.

http://www.girlspace.com/funandgames/virtualmodel.asp

enter an age older than 16
create an account
create your virtual model

User on a Virtual World Tour

beeooll's blog: This user creates a VM and makes a world tour by inserting the image of their VM into photos and modifying their VM with accessories like cigarettes.

You need to scroll right down to the bottom of the page:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/beeooll/