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Sep 20, 2009

Away3D

Posted by Mikea | Filed under Cool stuff, MadeByPi™ Labs, Technology

There have been a fair few updates recently at Away3D - a real-time 3D engine for Flash.

Most recently, a lovely new collection of Pixel Bender shaders for the Flash Player 10 version of the engine - be sure to check out the demos on their site.

Not only that, but there's the scene design and export tool - PreFab, an Air app for "creating top quality 3D content in Away3D". A must try.

Then, not too long ago, Away3D lite was released, a streamlined version of Away3D (25K) for Flash Player 10. Perfect for high-performance, small footprint projects.

As you've probably worked out you, can find out more on the Away3D site.

Jul 28, 2009

360˚ video demo

Posted by Joer | Filed under Cool stuff

It uses a Google streetview type camera setup, Pretty amazing!

via Karagos

The tech is by YellowBird

Jul 21, 2009

Happy Island!

Posted by Joer | Filed under Cool stuff

A nice bit of flash 3D. The site is a bit nuts though!

Happy Island

Jun 19, 2009

Sony’s EyePet

Posted by Joer | Filed under Cool stuff, Technology

Have a look at this video of Sony's EyePet, (skip to about 1:00 to see it in action). It's a kind of virtual pet using the Playstation camera, but the level of interaction is amazing. You can even draw toys for it, which appear in the game.

Eurogamer's 'Hands on' article has more info.

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Apr 17, 2009

3D Immersion Technology

Posted by Joer | Filed under Cool stuff, Technology

Amazing 3D immersion technology from IDEO Labs on Vimeo.

Check out this immersion technology from Eon Reality. It looks a bit odd when filmed but it must be really good as the guy using it nearly falls down some steps!

Via Fubis

Sep 12, 2008

Play With Spider

Posted by StephenM | Filed under Cool stuff

I just came accross this very well executed Flash simulation of a spider. You can drag it around, change its size, etc. Click here to check it out.

Sep 10, 2008

jParallax

Posted by StephenM | Filed under Cool stuff, Technology

While undertaking some late night internet browsing I came across an interesting jQuery plugin called jParallax.

The plugin's website describes it best.

"Parallax turns a selected element into a 'window', or viewport, and all its children into absolutely positioned layers that can be seen through the viewport. These layers move in response to the mouse, and, depending on their dimensions (and options for layer initialisation), they move by different amounts, in a parallaxy kind of way."

Seeing is definately believing with this plugin, so head on over to their website and see it in action.

Aug 22, 2008

Coign of Vantage

Posted by StephenM | Filed under Cool stuff, Technology

I stumbled upon a very interesting flash game called Coign of Vantage the other day. It makes very interesting use of 3D and perspective to creative quite an addictive game.