Comments on: The Metaverse, Second Life and 3d Printers/home fabrication http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/10/28/the-metaverse-second-life-and-3d-printershome-fabrication/ Raising The Eight Bar Thu, 10 May 2012 17:04:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.3 By: eightbar http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/10/28/the-metaverse-second-life-and-3d-printershome-fabrication/comment-page-1/#comment-16515 Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:33:27 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/10/28/the-metaverse-second-life-and-3d-printershome-fabrication/#comment-16515 Building 3d in real life with motion capture

Real life sketching in thin air, to 3d printed objects.

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]]> By: Taran http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/10/28/the-metaverse-second-life-and-3d-printershome-fabrication/comment-page-1/#comment-15772 Sun, 29 Oct 2006 15:35:04 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/10/28/the-metaverse-second-life-and-3d-printershome-fabrication/#comment-15772 You also don’t need to deal with blue collar labor, which may be an upside – but could also be a serious down side.

]]> By: Fabjectory http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/10/28/the-metaverse-second-life-and-3d-printershome-fabrication/comment-page-1/#comment-15595 Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:02:17 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/10/28/the-metaverse-second-life-and-3d-printershome-fabrication/#comment-15595 […] This post is a modified version of a comment I left in response to Ian Hughes post on The Metaverse, Second Life and 3d Printers/home fabrication. […]

]]> By: Michael Buckbee http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/10/28/the-metaverse-second-life-and-3d-printershome-fabrication/comment-page-1/#comment-15594 Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:53:13 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/10/28/the-metaverse-second-life-and-3d-printershome-fabrication/#comment-15594 Snowcrash is the book that is most often referenced in association with SecondLife and other virtual worlds. What you’re referring too is more along the lines of Neal Stephenson’s “Diamond Age”, where home fabricators are commonplace and being on welfare means having to deal with the slow trickle of available matter from the public pipe system.

Also, I’d suggest that there is a current booming home fabrication industry: printing.

It’s 2d, but I think fits the same model. You create something from scratch or download text, put it together how you like and then hit a button and your “print fabricator” takes the constituent materials, combines them in the way you specified and outputs your manuscript.

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