Orbcreation – the new platform that allows individuals, charities and businesses to create their own stereoscopic 3D virtual world websites, has gone live
Phil Lelyveld
Entertainment Technology Center
[3D Focus]
The concept of the Unity based platform, announced by 3D Focus last year, is to make it simple to build unique Second Life style immersive 3D environments using pre-built templates via a drag and drop interface. Later this year, more experienced users will even be able to design their own elements, or ‘Orblets’, using free software like Google Sketchup, and submit their 3D designs for other Orbcreation users to purchase (after quality approval).
At the click of a 3D goggles icon, Orbcreation will render the user generated environment into stereoscopic 3D. Even wearing the required red/cyan glasses, it works surprisingly well. Using a mouse and the directional keys, worlds are navigated in a third person perspective, Uncharted style.
Orbcreation has been built by Richard Knol who has been developing and creating complex programmes for many years. Orbcreation is powered by the Unity3D engine which is an authoring tool for creating 3D environments. It is a powerful but complex tool so Richard Knol’s platform simplified the build process whilst still retaining the features of Unity3D like video playback, occlusion culling, terrain and vegetation rendering and reflection mapping.
Looking at some of the demos, it is undeniably impressive with graphics matching the multi-million pound games of just a few years ago. …
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