SPEECH IS SILVERN

Well, for all intents and purposes the jury is in about the promise of MellaniuM. The Skype demonstrations of the 3D environments created by MellaniuM have been received for the most part with resounding interest but, remarkably, with little or no positive blogging response from the VW/Serious games establishment. In some cases though, I must admit we have been soundly praised (more than we probably deserve) by some of those less likely to have a virtual axe to grind. Others have taken a swipe at UNREAL for what seems no apparent reason.

During our involvement with the Serious Games network in the UK we had a blog post refer to UNREAL by Kevin Corti which had us somewhat perplexed.

"....... try deploying a diversity awareness and inclusion training game to several thousand food and drink retail outlets across the USA and see if you can use the Unreal engine as part of your development approach!

Why state specifically anything in particular about what UNREAL can or cannot do?

Recently Raph Koster inserted a comment about UNREAL.

"Things like Unreal and thick clients and 3D isn’t the client we’re working on."

We are all quite well aware that Raph does not work on the UNREAL platform, but why on earth bring up that fact?

We pondered these two posts and after some debate and after a spell of subconscious analytical gestation it dawned on us why, the penny dropped. Now we know why!.........

During the METAVERSE U weekend it was widely circulated that general participation in the meeting would be warmly welcomed and suggestions, comments and questions about the future of the METAVERSE should be posted on a YouTube "metaverseu" group. We decided to post a simple query asking if UNREAL could be a suitable candidate for a METAVERSE of some future configuration. Strangely enough this posting was the only insertion in the group.

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CAN UNREAL BE USED FOR A METAVERSE?

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So far the response to this posting has been a profound and enduring silence with no sign or hint of disruption.

We really did think by now that a pack of blood-lusting hyenas would have descended upon us and ripped the MellaniuM concept limb from limb and (for our own good of course) pointed out with no glee whatever that the poor idea was stillborn and doomed.

However to our complete amazement we have had no such fate befall us and so we do relish with incandescant comprehension that.....

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SPEECH IS SILVERN, BUT SILENCE IS GOLDEN!

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