News
09.04.2008: SceneCaster Announces COLLADA Support to Increase 3D Content Exchange Across All Delivery Platforms
SceneCaster, one of the world’s fastest-growing 3D Web applications, today announced new functionality with its ability to support the Khronos™ Group new COLLADA™ 1.5.0 specification. Click here for more.
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09.03.2008: SceneCaster Announces 3D Content Creation Partnership with Blue Marble Project
SceneCaster, one of the world’s fastest-growing 3D Web applications, today announced a partnership with Blue Marble Project, a premier 3D content developer. Click here for more.
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06.10.2008: SceneCaster Launches Immersiv 3D Viewer
SceneCaster today announced the launch of the Immersiv 3D Viewer, a new technology which will enable users to enjoy an immersive 3D experience in their browser, with no plug-in or download required. The launch represents a significant enhancement in SceneCaster's ability to offer users a way to create, share and interact with 3D scenes that are web-based, easy to access and embeddable anywhere online, including on consumer blogs, web pages and social networks. For the full press release and more information, please click here.
Media Kit: Immersiv Viewer Launch Press Release | SceneCaster Overview | SceneCaster 3D Up Close & Personal
Images: Embed Personal Media | Creating Immersive Brand Experiences | From inspiration to realization
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06.03.2008: SceneCaster CTO named Vice-President, ACM.org
Alain Chesnais was elected to a 2-year term as Vice President of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM.org), a global organization representing approximately 90,000 computing professionals and students. For the complete press release, please here.
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04.03.2008: SceneWeaver Accelerates the Growth and Distribution of User-Created Virtual Worlds
SceneCaster today announced the release of its new SceneWeaver technology at the Virtual Worlds 2008 Conference in New York. SceneWeaver allows users to easily create and weave together their own virtual scenes, embed 3D content on any web page, blog or social network, including Facebook and link their 3D scenes to any website or online destination, including YouTube and Flickr. For more information, please click here.
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01.30.2008: SceneCaster announces Marketing Partnership to Launch SceneCaster Japan
SceneCaster today announced an agreement to form a partnership with Hakuhodo DY Group i-Business Center and Yomiko Advertising, two of Japan’s most prominent advertising and integrated media companies, to promote and market SceneCaster to leading Japanese brands and advertisers. This new partnership will focus on leveraging SceneCaster’s technology and social media platform to offer next generation immersive media, marketing and commerce applications to the Japanese market. For more information, please click: SceneCaster Japan Press Release
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01.29.2008: SceneCaster Announces SceneWeaver Technology at DEMO '08
SceneWeaver technology takes the 3D Web to an entirely new level by making consumer created 3D content available anywhere on the Web, on any computing platform and on any communications device, including the Apple iPhone. For the complete story, please click: SceneWeaver Press Release
Images: iPhone | iMac | Facebook screenshot
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11.12.2007: SceneCaster Ranked Best Integration with Facebook
Virtual World News has a great article on SceneCaster and our integration with Facebook: “Nobody's built a virtual world that's completely tied to Facebook, but virtual worlds developers are starting to realize the potential. ...Right now there aren't a huge number of virtual worlds taking advantage of Facebook's 51 million active users, but here's a look at five who are...#2. SceneCaster: SceneCaster, ... wins the award for being the most deeply connected world from the get go. When it debuted, the 3D room creator was already aiming at a social network connection (along with ties to Google Earth, Flickr, and more). The Facebook app launched just a week or two afterwards. Not only can users embed their scenes into Facebook, they can browse, tag, and do pretty much everything else available on the site from within the social network as well.” For more information, click here.
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10.17.2007: Launch Success
We are pleased to update you on the beta launch of SceneCaster - our 3D Web initiative in the social networking space - with the first online integration to Google's 3D Warehouse. SceneCaster was launched at DEMOfall'07 in San Diego, CA on September 25th. Media coverage so far includes interviews by Dow Jones, CNET News, CBC, USA Today (Money/Technology section in the September 27th print edition and online (with a reach of 400,000 daily visitors)).
SceneCaster was voted 'Product of the Month' by Rob Enderle of Technology Pundits and the Favorite at DEMOfall by Robert Scoble of scobleizer.com. Other influential blogger mentions include: Read/WriteWeb , Mashable (Social networking news) and ZDNet.