http://www.realityprime.com Advanced Technology Research Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:47:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A senior executive at Electronic Arts (EA), the company which owns the Sims franchise, said that in light of the popularity of virtual worlds and other computer games which allow players to compete with each other via the web, the Sims may soon become a multi-player game. It has to ... http://www.realityprime.com/news/the-simstm-to-become-mmo According to this Reuters summary of a Wall Street Journal article, Verizon Communications Inc, Google Inc, Cisco Systems Inc, Hewlett-Packard Co and Ericsson, are believed to have a joined a group calling itself the Allied Security Trust. The companies will pay roughly $250,000 to join the group and will ... http://www.realityprime.com/articles/tech-companies-circle-the-patent-wagons ...in which all of my personal/political blog entries wound up on this site. All fixes and upgrades are now complete, and the universes are separate once again. We now return you to your regularly scheduled technology.   http://www.realityprime.com/articles/slight-glitch I didn't go to Google I/O, mainly because I don't actually develop anything on top of Google products and services. Still, it was great watching a video of Michael Jones, who is really the heart and soul of Google Earth and the entire Geo line. The video starts off a ... http://www.realityprime.com/news/michael-jones-at-google-io We're starting to see a new crop of "Mobile 3D" solutions hit the market. So let's take a minute to see what's up, what's coming, and what's still hype. For anyone who read the "Second Life on iPhone" stories or saw some demo video, the key take away is that the ... http://www.realityprime.com/articles/now-see-live-3d-worlds-on-your-pinkie Google Earth Blog: Look Around with Google Panoramio Frank Taylor has the news about Google's Panoramio geo/photo/sharing site adding a more "Photosynth-like" feature that lets you navigate from 2D photo to 2D photo based on their computed areas of overlap. In essence, the software seems to figure out if/where two photos ... http://www.realityprime.com/articles/turning-2d-photos-into-first-rate-3d-experiences IEEE Spectrum: Special Report: The Singularity I'll post more when I get a second, but it'll take some time to digest. For what it's worth, my present take on the Singularity is a cross of Vinge's and something Stoss said at a WorldCon party (or elsewhere), and Kurzweil, despite some inherent contradictions: 1. ... http://www.realityprime.com/articles/ieee-spectrum-special-report-the-singularity Key to All Optical Illusions Discovered | LiveScience Researcher Mark Changizi of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York says it starts with a neural lag that most everyone experiences while awake. When light hits your retina, about one-tenth of a second goes by before the brain translates the signal into a ... http://www.realityprime.com/articles/we-are-all-futurists North Oaks tells Google Maps: Keep out - we mean it Well, it had to happen sometime, but this seems to be a first. The town of North Oaks, MN, has completely excised itself from Google's commercial panopticon, at least at the street level. I've argued before that Street View can ... http://www.realityprime.com/articles/town-removes-itself-from-street-view Turns out, the API is extremely expansive, letting you control most functions of the app. And while that gives you many options for how to build your own web-based mashup of GE plus, what it also theoretically does is let you embed GE into other PC apps, e.g., games. Here's the ... http://www.realityprime.com/articles/more-analysis-of-ge-plugin