Microsoft: We’re not “cool enough” for Mac OS X
If you thought the new Get a Mac ads were spot-on or funny, then you will definitely get a kick out of this. On Microsoft’s Photosynth website, they admit something that we’ve known for years: They’re not cool enough to run on Macs.
“Unfortunately, we’re not cool enough to run on your OS yet. We really wish we had a version of Photosynth that worked cross platform, but for now it only runs on Windows. Trust us, as soon as we have a Mac version ready, it will be up and available on our site,” reads the website.
Photosynth is a technology Microsoft has designed to create 3-D “worlds” with your photos. This technology is definitely cool, and we actually would like to see it come to the Mac, but the way they worded the install page just makes us laugh. Meanwhile, VMware Fusion’s Pete Kazanjy told us that the warning about Photosynth not working in a virtual machine isn’t quite right; he got it running just fine in Fusion 2 Beta 2, and has the video to prove it. Thanks for the tip, Nate! [Read]
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Houdini 9.5 3D software coming to OS X
Side Effects is bringing Houdini, their professional 3D software, to OS X for the first time with the release of the Houdini 9.5 beta for OS X, Windows, and Linux. According to the company, Houdini “brings the 3D industry’s first node-based workflow to the Mac ensuring that 3D artists can collaborate seamlessly in a multi-platform environment.” This modeling and rendering platform has been used on a number of high profile projects like Spiderman 3 and Resident Evil: Extinction.
Houdini will come in four editions:
- a free Apprentice edition for learning that includes watermarks
- a non-watermarked Apprentice HD for $99
- Houdini Escape “with modeling, animation, characters, lighting, rendering and compositing” for $1995
- Houdini Master “with all of Escape’s features plus particles and integrated dynamics such as rigid bodies, wire, cloth and fluids” for $7995.
Right now only the Apprentice and Apprentice HD editions are available for download, with the others expected July 15. Houdini is 64-bit Leopard-only. Thanks eze! Read
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CodeMorphic offers global view toolkit for iPhone devs
CodeMorphic is offering a toolkit for iPhone app developers to display data using a real-time, manipulable globe.
They posted a video on their site, showing a possible application that displays composite satellite imagery, global temperatures, and a day/night terminator. Users can use standard multitouch gestures to zoom in and out, too.
The video just scratches the surface of what kind of data display apps are possible with the new iPhone SDK. Read
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