Yep - you read that right! James Cameron is revisiting his record breaking movie of all movies and introducing us to a virtual 3D world based on Titanic. The world will be called "Place In Time: Titanic" and you can explore - through an avatar of course - details of the ship and I am assuming an immersion into what it would be like to live during those times.You see Cameron is on the board of directors for Multiverse (an open source engine for MMORPGs - or Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) and obviously is very aware of the benefits and opportunity that online 3D worlds and gaming offer. But I am betting that Cameron has much more up his sleeve. I see him working and INTEGRATING open source gaming work into his movies and vice versa. Backgrounds, objects - who knows, even characters from these online worlds could make their way into his movies. Imagine a player made hero from a Manga MMORPG world making it into a starring role as a CGI creation in Battle Angel? Now THATS entertainment. My opinion of course.
Don't forget the hype behind Avatar: The Game with it being playable in 3D! Ubisoft is launching this game next summer and I can't wait to get my hands on a copy. It is interesting that this game will be released BEFORE the movie comes out - will it betray storylines or designs? Hmmm.
I will say this at a minimum - James Cameron has got one helluva sense of COOL.
Source: C|Net
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