RealityPrime

Google recently bought the company that made SketchUp, an easy to use 3D modeling program, and has made it available free of charge. What’s good about this program is that it allows fairly swift realization of simple design ideas. That’s also its main limitation. And while I think it’s important to have free 3D modeling tools to foster a marketplace of 3D models, we should remember that this isn’t the first free (as in speech, or beer) 3D modeler on the scene, and that marketplace has existed for years. Can Google’s blessing change the face of 3D and virtual worlds?
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I got my professional start working in Virtual Reality in 1992 for a small start-up in Seattle, where we built big immersive displays from wood and plastic. Later, at Disney, I got to work with both custom head-mounted-displays and wall-sized projection displays (we built the world’s first hexagonal CAVE, a good 5000 pixels across). I’ve researched and endlessly pondered the issue of where display technology is heading. Let’s see if my answers are in line with yours.
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