Virtual Worlds Person Of The Year Award, 2011

I would like to dedicate my Person Of The Year 2011 Award by the Association of Virtual Worlds to: All the Altadyn team members and especially to my partner Guillaume, without whom our technology would not be the one we have today and to Jeff who submitted my nomination for this award, All our customers [...]

Ten Challenges 3D Virtual Meeting Platforms Face in Corporations?

Corporations are used to Webex-like solutions (and even somewhat to Virtual Event platforms) for their Virtual meetings. The top 4 platforms in traditional virtual meetings are: Cisco’s Webex,  GotoMeeting from Citrix Online, Microsoft Netmeeting and Adobe Connect.  When they need more sense of presence and more interaction and more humanized meetings then they usually used [...]

Why Virtual Events Look Like In-Person Events?

Since we launched ALTADYN 9 years ago, we regularly hear the above question. Why Virtual Events Look Like In-Person Events? Why Meeting in a 3D space ? Why using AVATARS? Why not having Virtual Events user-interface as simple as buying a book on AMAZON or renting a movie on NETFLIX ? Etc… A few consultants [...]

Tech Tip: The Golden Rule For Optimizing Image Resolutions in 3DXplorer Studio

Many users of 3DXplorer Studio need to be reminded of the recommended resolutions of JPEG files which are used as a picture or a painting or even a texture in 3DXplorer. In general, like for any web development platform, you should keep your image resolutions as lowest as possible; an image should not exceed 512 [...]

How Did 2010 Turn Out For The 3D Internet Market and For ALTADYN / 3DXplorer?

Virtual Worlds, web 3D, “Live 3D collaboration” or “Full 3D Virtual Events” represent different angles of vision for the same group of 3D immersive Internet technologies. As 2010 was clearly the year of emergence of 3D for consumers, I would like to discuss the evolution of this part of 3D internet technologies. During 2010, AVATAR, [...]

Test Your Configuration Before Using 3DXplorer

You can now test your configuration here, before entering a 3DXplorer space! Although 3DXplorer is download-free and browser-based, it’s still a relatively sophisticated application: a real-time 3D engine including a multi-user environment with chat, VOIP, desktop sharing, remote control, and much more. As a result, it does require some system and network characteristics as presented [...]

Federal Consortium for Virtual World (FCVW) Virtual Conference on 3DXplorer.

We are pleased to host the virtual streaming of the  Federal Consortium for Virtual World (FCVW) annual event, at the National Defense University in Washington D.C., on May 13th and May 14th , 2010. The FCVW, also a 3DXplorer client, is using both the Meet-in-3D application (note the navigation bar on the home page), and [...]

Built-in Web-native Browser-based VOIP in 3DXplorer: You asked for it, you got it!

As a customer-driven company, Altadyn has constantly been listening to users demands and Voice over Internet Protocol commonly called VOIP, was on top of the list since a while.  To satisfy our customers, we evaluated several VOIP technologies on the market, but noticed that they all require that the end-users download a client software. We [...]

“3D in a Browser” as discussed during the Virtual Edge Summit

One of the conference sessions at Virtual Edge Summit, held in Santa Clara this week, was about “3D in a browser”. It was facilitated by John Jainschigg, Director at Ziff Davis Enterprise and included  Darius Lahoutifard, Altadyn’s CEO, Jim Parker, Digitell’s CEO and Michael Gialis representing Open Wonderland as panelists/presenters. During this session, 3DXplorer was [...]

Google expects 3D Live collaboration becoming mainstream

In today’s Google blog article,  the company’s representatives announced their intention to build a x 100 faster network: “We’re planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States. We’ll deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to [...]