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"WTF IS MELLANIUM" POSTING

MELLANIUM IS HERE AND NOW

It's time to grasp the nettle with the 3D serious gaming potential question? If we all want to collaborate on-line and build our virtual "Utopia" in SL, then go ahead and "just do it".

If there's anyone out there that wants a complex. realistic, richly textured and accurately rendered environment that has a WOW factor (sorry for the pun) then we need to embrace a platform that can deliver the goods. In addition if you want to engage your senses with a sensational colour palette, lighting and climate effects we have to cover our ears to the SL siren song. There is always going to be a niche for SL but PLEASE do not tell me it has the potential to give us all that first gasp of excitement when we first started to play EVERQUEST or WORLD OF WARCRAFT. We have to demand first rate 3D modelling, textures and sound or we will be left aching for those halcyon days of first entering QEYNOS or IRONFORGE.

I know we cannot go back but we will eventually have to expect only 3D worlds rendered realistically to depict the present, past or a fantasy of the future. Maybe a reconstruction of ancient Rome in 120 AD at the height of its opulence. We can have guided tours in groups using VOIP and visit a complete reconstruction of the Circus Maximus complete with chariot racing and gladiator fights.

The technology is available, here and now, MellaniuM is creating environments recreating any 3D object in every tiny detail