Watch A Recorded Video of CloudSlam10, The Global Virtual Event on Cloud Computing.

During the CloudSlam10™ Virtual Conference, www.CloudSlam10.com from Mach 23rd , 2010 to March 25th,  with thousands of visitors, Altadyn provided CloudSlam’10™ delegates, with two 3D spaces;

1. CloudSlam™ C – Level Lounge™: An exclusive virtual space reserved for V.I.P delegates that have been selected to attend this gathering.
2. CloudSlam™ Virtual Expo™: – A communal virtual environment, profiling CloudSlam’10™ key solutions partners; each with their own virtual booth

The recorded video below shows how visitors discovered the virtual venues built in 3DXplorer, communicated with the exhibitors and netwroked with each other, in a unique immersive and engaging environment while easily accessible.

Enjoy the video!

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

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 believe that 3D web conferencing and virtual events markets will become mainstream only if they are easy to use, and accessible to all. That’s why we developed our own java based VOIP technology which works seamlessly in the browser.  With what we have come up with, in order to attend a meeting, a user just presses on the invitation link received by e-mail and enters the space; he/she immediately hears the attendees voice; nothing to install, no other action required.

The VOIP enabled version is available to all users as of this week, under “Test”. To use it, login to your account, then open your 3D space settings page, under tab “Version” you usually see “LastRelease”. Change it to “Test”. As soon as you do this change, any visitor entering this space will be using the test release, which has Voice enabled.

When a new user walks into your voice-enabled space, he/she will hear whatever is going on in the room, but he/she is not heard, until the “Voice” button is activated. This button appears on the upper left corner of the screen.

A voice icon appears over the head of the avatar who talks, so that everyone can notice who’s talking.

Moderators can cut voice by pressing the  “Mute Audience” button at any time.

Beside the cutting edge VOIP feature, new functionalities have been released:

-          2 weeks free trial for all 3DXplorer products,

-          New meeting planner with invitation text supporting 8 different languages for 3DX/Online Meeting and 3DX/Conferencing

-          Customized invitation templates for 3DX/Online Meeting and 3DX/Conferencing

-          Drastically enhanced features for software developers using 3DX/API

Enjoy the new features, and give feedback to us. Your opinion matters!

Very Large Virtual Tradeshows Now Possible With Support Of AMAZON EC2

We are now supporting AMAZON EC2 web services by offering standard pre-configured instances with 3DXplorer, ready for customers’ virtual events. The easy replication of these instances enables Virtual Tradeshows with over 50,000 attendees over a few days to go full immersive 3D.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier and more accessible.

High Performance, Reliable, Flexible, Inexpensive, Accessible, Highly Scalable and Easy-to-set-up, … all the criteria are gathered for using AMAZON EC2’s web services for virtual events. Very large Virtual Trade-shows can now be scaled up at a fraction of the cost of alternative solutions, while offering full immersion and interactivity, thanks to the replication of 3DXplorer spaces over the cloud.

Mid-size publishers, conference organizers and trade-show professionals of any size can now develop high-end 3D immersive virtual events solutions, without spending for costly infrastructures. They can use the high-end platform tailored exactly to their needs, with reliable and performing servers in the right geography (East Coast US, West Coast US, Europe, Asia), for just a few days (duration of the event).

AMAZON EC2 servers were used recently during CloudSlam’10™, a global conference on Cloud Computing held on 3DXplorer in March 2010, with thousands of participants from around the globe. Commenting on the conference success, CloudSlam’10™ Chairman – Khazret Sapenov said “Altadyn’s platform helped our conference to introduce new products this year, 3D virtual exhibition and networking lounge, adding more business value for both exhibitors and attendees.”

New Release, 3DXplorer V5.02.00 is Live Today!

Shortly after our previous release of March 1st , we are pleased to announce a new release with exciting new features; 3DXplorer V5.02.00 includes important feature enhancements and additions which drastically improve Virtual Events experience for attendees :

1) There are now three different chat possibilities:

• Global chat visible to all attendees
• One to one private chat
• Group chats, private, visible to a selected number of users, but not to all

2)  Direct interaction with other participants or through a names list:

• Attendees can see the list of other participants, and start communicating / interacting with them, either by clicking on their avatars, or through the list.
• Moderators can also interact with participants either graphically or through the list.

3) Improved user interface:

• New buttons have been added to enable the above features. They are all regrouped in the upper left corner of the screen.
• The avatar’s control pop-up (the former chat) has been removed. The chat window can be started by pressing on the chat button and it will pop up automatically on other attendees window.
• Avatars’ animations, when possible (ie: high res avatars) are now accessible under “My Avatar” button.

4) Video broadcast in sync:

• When linking a video to a screen, It’s now possible to either have it “broadcast in-sync” so that  start /stop of the video , by a moderator or a VIP, will happen simultaneously for all users, or keep the former asynchronous mode, having users watch their video “on demand”.

This release is up and running as of today, March 13th , 2010.

And remember, no installation, no update, no download required…Enjoy it.

CloudSlam™ Selects Altadyn’s 3DXplorer® For Its Cloud Computing Virtual Conference

3DXplorer Cloud-Based Full 3D Immersive Platform For Virtual Events Powers CloudSlam’s Virtual Expo Hall  and the C-Level Networking Lounge.

CloudSlam’10™, a virtual conference produced by Cloudcor Inc™  March 23 – March 25 2010 developed to promote collaborative analysis of the latest trends and challenges in the world of cloud computing; today announced a “Bespoke” Collaborator Agreement with Altadyn for the CloudSlam’10™ initiative.

Cloud Slam ’10™   provides industry leaders and professionals insights into leading edge research, analysis and commentary, as well as providing a platform to network with leading experts in the Cloud Computing & IT industry. The CloudSlam’10™   event agenda will be published this week and can be viewed online by visiting  www.CloudSlam10.com

Altadyn will provide CloudSlam’10™ delegates, with 2 state of the art 3-D walk through environments modeled on;

1. CloudSlam™ C – Level Lounge™: An exclusive virtual space reserved for V.I.P delegates that have been selected to attend this gathering.
2. CloudSlam™ Virtual Expo™: – A communal virtual environment, profiling CloudSlam’10™ key solutions partners; each with their own virtual booth

The CloudSlam’10™ “Virtual Expo™” will be open and available to everyone that is part of the CloudSlam™ network to enter & will be open 24 hours a day, with free access during selected times over the 3 day proceedings.

Delegates entering the CloudSlam’10™ Virtual Expo™, will be able to virtually meet – in real-time and interact with, business leaders from organization’s helping to shape the Cloud Computing industry. In this capacity, CloudSlam’10™ will enable event delegates and key collaborators, the opportunity to network and collaborate in a way that has not been seen before.

To learn more about CloudSlam and Attend: www.CloudSlam10.com

To read the full Press Release, click here.

New Release, 3DXplorer V5.01.02 is Live!

3DXplorer V5.01.02 release includes important feature enhancements and additions that improve Virtual Events experience both for attendees and event administrators:

•    All 3DX Apps: New attendees/visitors login process, in a “wizard” mode , where even guest avatars have some choices of looks at entrance, without having to use the “avatar configurator” for a more customized avatar. As a result, from now on, when embedding a 3DXplorer space inside a web page, a better approach is to use iframes instead of the applet code insertion. Space owners who have inserted the applet inside their HTML pages, continue to work fine with the old user interface.

•   3DX/Conferencing: Passcodes list: Event administrator can now upload a csv file with the list of the attendees and individual passcodes. This feature is particularly helpful for paid events, as each passcode is individual and can’t be used by more than one active avatar.

•    3DX/Conferencing: “Silent mode” now applies to laser pointer too, as they’ll shut down when this mode is active.

•    3DX/Conferencing: Event administrators can now disable Desktop Sharing feature for attendees in 3DX/Conferencing

•    3DX/API: External login supported. Enables avatar login through 3rd party databases.

•    3DX/Studio: objects scripting improved for automatic setup of the space and dynamic content inside the 3D spaces.

•    3DX/Studio: 3D scene settings page improved: contextual help (tooltips), re-organized fields,…

•    3DX/Studio Bugs fixed: Object editor, handlers table, procedure table in the studio, …

The new release is active since last week-end. All users with “Last release” (which is the default option on all spaces), are automatically going to use it with no action required.

Enjoy it.

Virtual Trade Shows & Conferences with 3DXplorer

In a new video released a few days ago, you can watch 2 examples of participation in virtual events. A trade show and a conference. The video starts with the conference, with the live presentation, laser beam, a 3D electrical engine brought into the conference room all in a 3D immersive and interactive environment.

The second part of the video shows a high tech trade show with an exhibition hall and some 25 booths which can be visited from outside, when walking in the alleys. They can be visited each by walking inside where the visitor can chat with the company’s representatives, handle products, watch videos, open PDF documents, etc…

Enjoy it:

“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 recognized as the only “3D in a Browser” which is download-free and appeared as the closest platform to the “holy grail” dream of easily accessible while a fully 3D immersive and interactive platform.

A recorded video can be visualized here.

The easiest way to attend Virtual Edge on Feb 22 & 23, and to network there, from your desk.

Those of you who are interested in the Virtual Events Market, but are not planning to go to Santa Clara on Feb 22 & 23 are cordially  invited to experience Virtual Edge on 3DXplorer virtual events platform.

We are offering the easiest way to participate, with no download, no installation, not even any additional registration required for the 3DXplorer platform. Despite all the simplicity, you can still walk in with your avatar, feel the space and the event, meet and network with other participants through chat and take away the best  of networking and conferencing.

Just be there on time, number of seats is limited.

Here’s the precious link to use and to keep

http://www.3dxplorer.com/static-v3/virtual_summit.php