A New Song Fer Ye

Some of you know that I am a songwriter. Here is a new song for you.

I'll make a proper recording of this song, but for those who like them rawer, this is a raw as I get: one voice, one guitar, one mic, all real time.

This is my comment on war, not the politics, but the sad reality of it over the generations for me.

My Son's Time To Go

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Using Games to Predict Behavior

A company trying to patent prediction future behavior based on game play using emotive evolution probably knows that the OASIS HumanML project developed the concepts for this over five years ago. The HumanML work relied on several earlier works in games simulations and psychological theory. The list discussed this in depth and documented the designs.

It seems that despite the jeers from gallery and certain TLA consultants, the HumanML project was right.

I am not familiar with the essential claims of the patent submission but I'll be surprised if there is much there that is novel or doesn't rely on prior works. The patent office should be wary of this one.

Media Machines Receives First Round of Funding

Congratulations to the Media Machines crew on receiving $9.4 million dollars of financing for their company. I've posted several blogs here this year with examples of X3D running on the Media Machines Flux Viewer and work constructed with the Flux editor. Tony Parisi has been a pioneer in the 3D on the Web from the very start of VRML.

The article referenced described them as a virtual worlds company and that is good for the current zeitgeist. On the other hand, the Flux Viewer and editor is applicable to other 3D on the Web applications such as visualization. It is this flexibility of X3D that is fundamental to its status as the international standard for 3D on the web as evidenced by the many applications emerging from this and other companies. Go to the Web 3D site for articles showing these.

Way to go, Tony and Keith and the rest of your team!