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Are you ready for the first total immersive experience on Facebook with 3DVIA technology? Take the plunge into a virtual medieval environment!
Immerse yourself in our 3D medieval environment and win one of two 21st-century iPad2® devices, just by answering a few questions!
Enjoy this 3DVIA Scenes experience with its intuitive and interactive interface. Compete with your friends and share your results!
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If you are looking to share your Google SketchUp designs in a virtual environment, which you can share and walk through with others, 3DVIA Scenes is the quickest way to accomplish this…and its FREE! In this video, Cliff walks you through the process for uploading and sharing your SketchUp designs online, and in 3D with 3DVIA Scenes.

Try 3DVIA Scenes for Google Sketchup Free Here:
http://bit.ly/kShyU6

Can 3D game technology be used to make a better product? That’s exactly what the release of Post3D aims to find out. 3DVIA Post3D enables individual product designers to quickly showcase their work through their own browser-based, realistic virtual environments or “posts”.

Visit 3DVIA Post3D to Find Out More.

If you have seen a modern movie in 3D, you know how cool stereoscopic 3D is, and that stereoscopic 3D sells in the box office.  Cool is one thing, but, “can we use stereoscopic 3D to promote products?”  Answer:  Yes.

Recently, we announced simple drag-and-drop Stereoscopic 3D for apps built with 3DVIA Studio, which can be played online.  And you may be thinking, “neat!…But what can I do with it?”

Here is a perfect example.  Dassault Systemes partnered with Nestle to create a game for breakfast cereal consumers.  You may have seen this announced in this 3D Perspectives article, but I had to try it out for myself.  I wanted to see this in action.

What’s so compelling about this game is:

• No game player console is required.  You don’t even need a keyboard or mouse to play.
• Anyone can play online with just:  3d glasses, a webcam, and a simple 3D plugin.

And to think, when I was little I was excited about a silly plastic toy in my cereal box…A stereoscopic 3D game would have been much better!

Last week, 3DVIA announced that you can now create personalized Avatars on 3dvia.com, and use them in your 3DVIA Scenes.  See the announcement here.

We partnered with Evolver to bring our users this functionality, for FREE!

However, there has been one problem, we have created an AVATAR INVASION!  Traffic to 3DVIA Scenes has risen, and all sorts of mischief has been happening within your Scenes.  Everyone has been turning into Avatars, and we can’t stop it!!!

Seriously, the project has gone well, and 3DVIA, once again has offered our users new 3D functionality, for free.

So, login today, and start creating your Avatars.

Be sure to visitt the Dance Party Scene, which contains the dance floor used in the video.  The Dance floor functionality was created using 3DVIA Studio.

If you want to add the “I look better in 3D” shirt to your avatar, download the shirt here.

I recently traveled to New York City, and was reminded of the great architecture in the city.  A clash of modern and traditional architecture on every corner.  As you are probably aware, can take a virtual tour of New York using Google Earth, or Bing Maps online, however, if you wanted to take an online tour of buildings, interiors, and take a closer look at buildings, Google and Bing Maps do not provide an answer.

I had a recent email conversation with an architect, who was interested in doing just this.  She had created a Sketchup 3D model, and wanted to be able to walk through the model, and show her customers.  I told her that you can not only walk-through the Google SketchUp 3D model, but you can do this all online, in a virtual environment, and it’s FREE!

This video shows you the few steps it takes to take your Google Sketchup (or other common 3D Architecture models) and create a virtual world (or room) using 3DVIA Scenes, with these five easy steps:

1. Upload your Sketchup Model to 3dvia.com (.kmz or .dae format)
2. Send uploaded design to a scene (click the “SEND TO” button on the 3D model view page)
3. Adjust the scale of the model within Scenes
4. (Optional) Add other 3D models (i.e. plants, furniture, people
5. Walk through your design online…AND share with others via email, or embed the scene within your own site like a YouTube Video

It’s really that simple.

Click Here to Try 3DVIA Scenes Now

Try it today, and be sure to let us know of your uploaded Sketchup designs by posting a comment on this page.

3DVIA Booth presentation from GDC 2010:
3DVIA: The Total Package by Cliff Medling and Marc DiGregorio of 3DVIA
Using: 1-3DVIA Studio, 2- 3DVIA Scenes & 3- 3DVIA Shape to build a simple 3D game within minutes.

I disguised myself as a 4th grader to enter a primary school and see how children are using computers and the internet to learn.  I discovered that children are not using the internet just for research, but are learning how to build and use 3D easily with 3DVIA tools.  This generation (ofter referred to as Generation-Z), with the power of the internet and computers, will be able to communicate on the web in 3D (see the connection:  3D and “Z”, as in “Z-axis”?)

3DVIA Shape and 3DVIA Scenes are simple tools which allow anyone, even school-aged children to build and express their ideas with just a computer and the internet…no glue necessary.

We have some exciting news here at 3DVIA.   Our 3D Web player has expanded to include rich 3D environments which can be created very easily.  3DVIA Scenes allows users to easily add 3D models into a rich 3D environment, on the web.

See how I easily created a walk through of my kitchen remodel in this video.

Currently this is a Secret Beta project, but we are opening it up for testing.  The final release will happen very soon.  Try it out (you do not have to be a 3D expert to use it), and let us know what you think:

www.3dvia.com/scenes

3DVIA Scenes is the next step in offering our customers the tools to create 3D lifelike experiences on the web.

This is Part Two of my Home Remodeling videos.  In the first video, I created the redesign of the kitchen in 3D using 3DVIA Shape.  See that video here.  Together, with 3DVIA Shape and 3DVIA Scenes you can easily create and share 3D environments on the web.

Another video that may be useful is my Building 3D Models from Pictures video.  I used 3DVIA Shape to quickly add lights and a table to this design.

Now anyone can communicate and design in 3D through an online immersive experience. Create walk-throughs in minutes.

It’s free to register and try: www.3dvia.com/scenes! Try it today!