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Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D Directed by Eric Brevig; rated PG; out now To put on 3-D glasses, as cumbersome a visual aid now as they were in the '50s, is already to surrender to cheesiness. This loose take on Jules Verne's novel, with Brendan Fraser as the wayward scientist, is the ideal vehicle for stuff jumping out at you: yo-yos, waterspouts, antennae, dinosaur drool, the works. It's fun for tweens, a sedative for their parents...
...worn by Cicely Tyson in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Moving into feature films, he forged productive relationships with directors as imaginative as he: Burton, Steven Spielberg for Jurassic Park and A.I. and James Cameron on Aliens and The Terminator, T2 and the Universal Studios park attraction, T2: 3D, an amazing blend of film, FX and live action that Winston co-directed...
...test bed, but it already has more than 15,000 users, and its customer base doubled between March and April thanks to "word of mouth and viral" means, Wilson says. Even bigger growth could be ahead, since 3DVIA recently linked up with Facebook, where users can now make a 3D mashup. For instance, say you create a 3D model of Bart Simpson: you can then insert the model into a photo of yourself so it looks as if you're talking to it and post it on your profile. Dassault says similar arrangements with other social-networking sites, like MySpace...
...Once consumers get more comfortable with 3D software, Dassault has further plans for them. It would like to funnel them to another emerging website under the 3DVIA umbrella called 3DSwym, a joint project between Dassault and Publicis, France's huge marketing/advertising concern. 3DSwym brings 3D modeling and simulations to burgeoning world of market research. Consumers can virtually test new products, packaging and store layouts. It'll enable manufacturers to let consumers help determine, say, the shape of a yogurt container or the placement of shutter button on a digital camera. Online 3D simulations can greatly reduce the amount of time...
...Analyst Shepherd is skeptical; he doubts there are enough consumers who want to play with 3D software to make the site a success. "It sounds very niche," he says. But even if only a small percentage of the countless millions of webizens now attracted to Web 2.0 are ready to play in a new dimension, they could still give 3DVIA a healthy user base. For Dassault, niche may be enough...