Citizen Kane? Was he in Snow Crash? :-) > There is something new: A globe about the size of a grapefruit, a perfectly > detailed rendition of Planet Earth, hanging in space at arm's length in front > of his eyes. Hiro has heard about this but never seen it. It is a piece of > CIC software called, simply, Earth. It is the user interface that CIC uses to > keep track of every bit of spatial information that it owns - all the maps, > weather data, architectural plans, and satellite surveillance stuff.
Mike Philip Rosedale wrote: > Hey all, > > So 'Snowglobe' is the new name we picked for the new viewer we've all > been working on. Seemed clever (just think of the Citizen Kane > references), fun, referential to virtual worlds generally, and something > that could be effectively mutated for different projects (what you put > 'inside' the snowglobe). We've registered it and gotten some domains > (snowglobeproject.org, etc). Next step for us/LL is to come up with > some art, and flesh out some usage guidelines. _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
