“No doubt, it’s going to be an important tool for hobbyists and designers, and for assorted applications here and there, but Wired wants to convince us it’s going to be more than that. ”
There, Wagner James Au, the virtual worlds expert and New World Notes blogger, said it: he’s not convinced 3D printing will be Big.Â
In the discussion thread I asked whether SecondLife, Cloud Party, OpenSim or other open ended environments will be particularly useful in collaborating and designing prototypes for 3D-printing. Or will it just be one of many possibilities to collaborate on 3D designs for printing, and not necessarily the most obvious one?
His answer:
Quite likely, I mentioned that possibility in my book — but those platforms have less than 1M people, and only a small percent of the population actively engages in 3D prototyping.
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In my mind, second life will be better because of the important community, and lot of 3D creators.
But Cloud Party, with Facebook, is coming really quickly, and lot of 3D professionals are these days trying this metaverse.
The developpment goes quickly, and the team is friendly.
wwww.cloud-party.fr for french speaking people