Virtual Realm

Microsoft and Caligari join forces

Thursday, February 07 2008 - xna, game-development

Going through my normal searches and the news just seem to jump out, "Caligari Corp is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation"

"Dear Caligari community members,

I am pleased to announce that Caligari Corp has become a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation. Specifically we will be working with the Virtual Earth team which is in the process of building out an immersive 3D Web experience. If you haven't seen it yet check it out using the 3D mode at http://maps.live.com", Roman Ormandy, CEO - Team Caligari

Here is a direct link to the post on  the True Space Forums.

Caligari are the devlopers of the following Products

• truePlace
• trueSpace
• gameSpace
• iSpace

I know that the joining forces has been made due to the virtual earth / live maps team, and nothing to do with XNA. But maybe this could mean that in the near future Microsoft will be able to supply the XNA Development community with a 3D Modeling package that will intergrate directly into the XNA Framework.

Here is a related post on the VirtualEarth and Live Maps Blog.

I will post more news when I find it.