3DVIA® - 3DVIA

Although I am probably biased, there is a great article on TIME.com today featuring a certain 3D content site that you may have visited recently. Please check out the Thomas Grose 3D Comes to Web 2.0 article that is all about your very own 3DVIA.com.

“The hosted services and communities of Web 2.0 already amount to an entirely new form of communication. But now a new site called 3DVIA.com is taking the social-networking concept to another dimension — both literally and, well, virtually.” [ Read the Full Article ]

If you are not familiar with TIME.com, it is the online version of Time Magazine which has over 3,250,000 subscribers and is read by nearly 10 million people each week.

Do you have Digg account?
Please Digg the TIME article above.

Ben Harper, web design guru and owner of Templamatic, posted a great video screencast on how to import the free 3D model content found on 3DVIA.com into Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended.    Since it references 3DVIA, I thought I would pass it along and see what you think.

In short, Photoshop Extended allows graphic designers to incorporate 3D content directly into their 2D designs.  This gives you the ability to optimize the position and lighting of an element in your design on the fly.  Photoshop accepts .3ds, .obj and .dae files among other formats readily available for free right here on 3DVIA.com. 

If you do not have Photoshop, why not try a similar functionality in our own free 3Dcollage?  All you need is a Facebook account and the 3Dcollage app.  You can read all about it here.

View original post on Templamatic.

Here is a little bit of 3D eye candy for a Friday afternoon that I am sending out to all of the VR fans of the world. This is a 3D walk-through of a building using a “Virtusphere” and our very own 3DVIA Virtools technology. The video is part of the V+R Challenge currently running on Facebook. Have you created your own personal 3D Avatar yet?

Even though it looks a bit like a hamster ball…I want one! Mehdi from the Paris office, also in the first part of the video, gets to work with the coolest part of the business. I’m trying to rationalize installing the system for our office but have not justified the cost yet. Mehdi - can you ship that over here to the states?