i am interested in Unity because it can play in a browser, on an iPad, and on Android apart from that, i have little inclination to start creating in Unity because, in my opinion, it makes it harder to do virtual worlds. easier accessibility is clearly the advantage that Unity has, however, OpenSim is far [...]

there was a lot of interest in yesterday’s post about the Tipodean OpenSim converter service. in case you don’t want (or can’t) install the Unity3D plugin i thought i’d do one real quick video this is their single player example played in fullscreen mode – you don’t even need to log in (and this is [...]

Tipodean has a conversion service to convert your OpenSim work into a collada file so that it can be viewed via a browser including Android and Mac! it looks like you give them an OAR file and then they give you back a collada file (and offer hosting) – this could be a good resource [...]

Tipodean came out with a Unity 3-based viewer a few months ago and i tried it then and, apart from walking around in my HK underwear, it was pretty limited and not very exciting. however, it’s a beginning and i am certain it took some serious work to get to the point it is at [...]

last November Tipodean made a small blogosphere splash with the announcement of a browser-based virtual world access dealio and then went silent it has re-emerged and in a better way than previously indicated. it no longer needs to reside on their servers and uses the Unity 3D plug-in as part of its architecture. it’s also free! free always [...]

last month there was a mini whirl wind of activity about making Second Life (and OpenSim) browser accessible. LL rolled out a limited access test and that may still be available, but press on it seems to have been tossed out with the Christmas tree Tipodean made a splash in a few blogs with their Canvas [...]