VastPark, an industry leader in virtual worlds, launches OpenAvatar to create an open source standard generator for avatar development for the virtual world and gaming industry.

Frustrated by the lack of high quality 3D avatar generators, the VastPark team has launched OpenAvatar, a flexible open 3D avatar specification and open source generator that uses the industry-standard Collada format. The free OpenAvatar SDK makes it possible for virtual world platforms to enable users to customize their avatars with swappable body parts and it supports a range of deployment options such as in the cloud and behind the firewall.

The Genesis of OpenAvatar

When the VastPark team wanted to offer their users a way of customizing 3D avatars inworld, they found a big problem. There weren’t any avatar generation systems available that provided the scalable, high quality results they were looking for. In particular, there was no open source solution offering quality results or using an industry standards-based toolset. Read the rest of this entry »