True Place - A shared online 3D space

Caligari, the makers of collaborative 3D technology, announced its Thursday Night Live!, a weekly online discussion open to all members of the 3D community, True Place, around the globe. Participants to the forum will meet in Caligari’s truePlace shared online 3D space and can communicate using voice or text based chat.

3dwalkthroughs.com believes these types of applications are the social networking platforms of the future. As the quality of the avatars and 3D walkthrough environments continues to become more realistic we believe current social networking sites such as My Space and Facebook will either become obsolete or merge with virtual worlds suchs as True Place.

About True Place
truePlace is a shared online 3D space which you can visit and explore as well as meet your friends and colleagues for fun, learning or work.

truePlace is great for social networking and fun as it provides world’s first 3D positional voice chat and a rich set of interactions in a realistic shared 3D space. It is also ideal for trueSpace users who want to discuss their latest projects and ideas.

Unlike other online 3D spaces, 2D social networks, instant messengers, voice chats or text chats, truePlace lets you talk with the people you meet using a headset so you can hear where they are in the room in relation to you.

truePlace is as much about sight as about sound. While at the moment visitors are represented by simple avatars, that will soon change and the avatars will then have the same level of detail as the environments they inhabit.

When you want a friend or colleague to join you in a particular location, you'll be able to just send them a link in an email, web page or Word document to invite them. As long as they have registered for truePlace, they just click on the link you send, and they'll log in and find themselves in the same space as you.

This is a perfect solution for business events and special occasions too, just send out your electronic invitations and it will be easy for your guests to join you.