touchatag™ enables service providers and enterprises to leverage ubiquitous identity — in contactless RFID cards, and NFC mobile devices — for wallet 2.0 services such as mobile payment, fidelity and interactive advertising.
touchatag is offered by Alcatel-Lucent Ventures. A development section is avialable at the website.
Last update : July 11, 2012
Okuyama Kazuya, the creator of Q-BLOCK, is also the developer of virtual mini aquariums on the web. The first version was published in 2005. The mini aquarium tropical fish versions are based on ShockWave and are provided as javascript links to integrate in blogs or third party websites as widgets. Different fish types are available : neon, discus, clown, platinum angel. A free main application called Virtual Aqua is also available.
There are two ways to export Sims from the Electronic Arts Sims 3 game:
To export or to save any sim in game, take them to a mirror, select “change appearance” to load your sim into CAS, look down at the bottom of the screen at the little square portrait of your sim with the options dots in the corner, click the dots and choice the option “share sim” or “save to bin”.
Sims 3 utilise deux formats pour regrouper les fichiers avec les resources et données du jeu :
Pour télécharger des contenus en format .package, il faut installer le fichier Resource.cgf dans le répertoire:
C > Program Files > Electronic Arts > Les Sims 3.
et les fichiers téléchargés dans le répertoire :
C > Program Files > Electronic Arts > Les Sims 3 > Mods > Packages > dossier 1 > dossier 2 > dossier 3 (maximum 3 niveaux de sous-dossiers)
Le logiciel Install Helper Monkey permet d’installer d’une façon conviviale les téléchargements au format .package.
En double-cliquant sur un fichier .sims3pack, l’utilitaire associé (le lanceur du jeu Sims 3) installe les données au bon endroit. Pour enregistrer les données d’uen façon plus contrôlée, on peut recourir au programme S3PME.
The Sims 3 Package Explorer, created by Okeanos, a Sim citizen of the customsims3 community, is a tool to examine, extract, replace and modify Sims 3 package content. The current version 1.1.0. is available at the rapidshare website.
The tool is written in Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 under C#. It is a windows tool and should be able to do roughly the same as postal.
Postal is developed by Echo, a drive-by modder and supermoderator of the Mod The Sims website. Echo is a female software engineer located in Melbourne, Australia; her website is eternal-echo.net.
Postal can open up Sims 3 package files, let you poke at their innards, change things around, then save them back into new package files. Postal can navigate all kinds of Sims 3 package files, and parse/display/write many resources, including OBJDs, OBJKs, STBLs, XMLs, CSTRs, GEOMs, NMAPs, DDSs, PNGs, VPXYs, Texture Compositors and the various text-based formats. The Postal Editor is built on top of the “Postal API” which has already been used in other tools, including The Sims 3 Mod Generator and Merlin.
The latest version of the Postal installer can be downloaded from Sourceforge.
Postal extracts .obj files from the geom to enable users to modify the mesh.
realXtend is an open source virtual worlds – immersive web platform. The framework contains server and client software along with content creation tools.
One of the most important aspects of the realXtend framework is its scalability. Anyone can have a personal virtual space with typically only a couple of users, but it is also possible to create entire worlds for greater numbers of users. Instead of separate proprietary sites realXtend will make it possible to connect between the different worlds as easily as browsing web pages today, which will increase the popularity and usability of virtual reality above what is possible for any individual service provider alone.
The most important issue in creating smooth transitions between virtual realities is a global and secure avatar management system. The avatar is the user’s virtual representative, which can be used for a multitude of purposes. In realXtend the same avatar can be used in every virtual world, it will assist the user in communication tasks and possibly even be used for secure online transactions. The avatar services are also available for anyone to host themselves, there are no centralized or proprietary components in the framework.
RealXtend is a partnership company formed from Admino Technologies (now Evocativi Oy) and LudoCraft, two Finnish companies. They have developed an improved version of the Second Life(tm) viewer which can be downloaded here. Information on how to connect the RealXtend viewer is defined by the ModRex interface.
LudoCraft recently developed the Virtual Expo World which is provided by Tekes Spaces and Places Programme; my user name in the realXtend viewer to connect to the Authentication Server Home Grid is gigamon@world.virtualexpo.fi.
Modrex is a project to integrate all of the realXtend features with the mainline OpenSim code by incorporating them in a optional regionmodule – hence the project name modrex. The work is being done by Adam Frisby. The stability of the code is surprisingly good.
The RealXtend viewer employs the open source OGRE game engine and differs from the Linden Lab viewer (LLviewer) in several ways. The most distinct difference is in the new rendering potential offered by OGRE. When using RealXtend as a viewer for OpenSim, one obtains real-time shadows, improved lighting simulation, and more importantly, the OGRE mesh. The mesh is hierarchical (multiple meshes and sub-meshes) and can include a skeleton for defining avatar motion and dynamics.
ModRex (source code) while not part of the viewer, is the glue that connects the viewer to the opensim trunk code. Version 0.5 of realXtend released on 30.6.2009 is featuring ModreX for the first time.
Last update : April 10, 2013
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The Open Metaverse Foundation (OMF) is a non-profit organization founded with the mandate of developing open technologies and open-source software related to the metaverse and virtual worlds. The OMF provides support and guidance to selected projects that espouse the principles of the foundation.
The current projects supported by OMF are the Meerkat Viewer and the LibOpenMetaverse, a .NET based Client/Server library used for accessing and creating 3d virtual worlds. The library maintains compatibility with the Second Life protocol and can be used for creating clients and automatons in Second Life, OpenSim or other virtual worlds which use the Second Life Protocol.
The current library (version 0.9.1 released September 3, 2011 ) consists of several .NET Assemblies:
The OpenMetaverse library is compatible with the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 and newer and Mono 1.9 or newer.
Last update : April 10, 2013
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OSgrid is the largest running OpenSimulator grid, run by OSGrid Inc., a Californian Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation. Users can connect their own Sim-regions to the grid for free. OSgrid recommends the Hippo Viewer provided by MJM Labs. This viewer includes a list of public OSgrids.
End november 2009, OSgrid countet 34 inworlds, 3,105 regions and 28,546 accounts. Mid April 2013, there are 8696 regions and 88.381 total users.
The OSgrid website provides statistics, forums, chats, photos, news, a general store with free items, a wiki, a region lists with connected Sims and a list with the coordinates of free spots. OSGrid “map tiles” are only reserved while a region is online, if a region is offline it risks having it’s location taken by another user. OSGrid Admins may help resolve map position disputes, however this is not her responsibility.
A detailed documentation how to connect a Simulator to the OSgrid and how to configure the .ini-file is available on the OSgrid website.