The SL Enquirer: 3-d graphics

Wouldn’t it be great if there was a virtual world for the general public, one that would not require a cumbersome viewer but that could be accessed through your normal browser software?

Wouldn’t it be great if you could create your own mesh objects and clothing and import all of that free to your inventory, and to be shared? Cloud Party (R. I. P.) was such a utopian platform for virtual world enthusiasts until February, when it was bought by Yahoo, Inc.

I had an account in Cloud Party when it first started about two years ago. I remember going over there and getting excited about learning to build mesh items on Blender, and then importing these over. That joy was short-lived, however, as it became evident that with the hardware at my disposal, mesh creation was out of the question. At that beta stage, avatars in Cloud Party were also very elementary, and although the navigation was not overly difficult, it still had a learning curve. Things got rapidly better, and at its later stages, Cloud Party was a serious contender for content delivery, quality 3-D graphics and art, as well as becoming a platform for socializing in virtual worlds.