» fabrication http://www.lifesized.net Sat, 07 Aug 2010 09:32:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 virtual to the real to the virtual http://www.lifesized.net/2007/02/24/virtual-to-the-real-to-the-virtual/ http://www.lifesized.net/2007/02/24/virtual-to-the-real-to-the-virtual/#comments Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:42:07 +0000 James Burke http://www.lifesized.net/2007/02/24/virtual-to-the-real-to-the-virtual/ fabbing in SL: Matt talking at MediaMatic

Saw an interesting talk by Matt Bidulph at Mediamatic the other night. He presented his latest work for Nature and an overview of how fabrication technologies are easy to experiment with in the virtual universe of Second Life. He was able to take the dataset of a cell tomagraph and get Second Life’s replicator bot to print a huge version of the cell image allowing people on Nature’s Second Life island to walk around it.

This tied in with a BBC feature on a IBM researcher who found a way to connect a doorbell in Second Life ringing, into sending the owner of that door an SMS message to tell them someone was calling.

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