Rick Williams » virtual world http://www.pixelpod.co.uk/blog ramblings of a creative developer Tue, 06 Sep 2011 22:49:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 OTOY – 3D Virtual World technology rendered in ‘The Cloud’ http://www.pixelpod.co.uk/blog/2008/09/28/otoy-3d-virtual-world-technology-rendered-in-the-cloud/ http://www.pixelpod.co.uk/blog/2008/09/28/otoy-3d-virtual-world-technology-rendered-in-the-cloud/#comments Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:05:09 +0000 Rick http://www.pixelpod.co.uk/blog/?p=295 This has done the rounds a fair bit, but not here and here’s a good place for me to archive this kind of stuff – it’s what it’s for after all…

OTOY is a technology I heard about through a TechCrunch post. They’ve managed to create a way in which you can experience almost real life 3D environments through a browser with the images being rendered in ‘The Cloud’ utilizing render farms. Take a look:

Pretty cool…and then remind yourself that you just need a browser – ANY browser on ANY platform. That gets me thinking? How about you?

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