Update: Now it appears that the censorship is strict on many levels. The complaint is widely shared by all the playstation community. Terms that may offend in religion or any internationally criticized topic are subjected to a high level of censorship. Is it partly because moderating an open community with Audio/Visual communication is harder? Or is it that Sony is targeting a more friendly audience with Home? It is note-able that the average user of a PS3 is from ages 15-25 and most people at that age start understanding the quirks of being in a social service. Given that, it does not justify the censorship of country names and I stand my ground about the complaint.

It is after a long time that I am going to post about something aside from programming. Recently, I have been busy playing Playstation Home using my PS3. Don’t mind Sony, you trashed a perfectly great idea. People are enjoying it because it is a new experience for them. I believe not many people know about Second Life anyway. So, a job not done well.

What concerned me was how Home is reacting towards international issues in its user policy. You can type “Pakistan” or “Afghanistan” in your chat area and your friends will tell you that all they see are asterisks. Wow!. Now why would Sony go that far? It may not be a big issue for people living in a country which is not censored but it is for me. A company such as Sony should be neutral in its application to its consumers. It is not doing any good to the people who are using the crappy service but shows how racist a common service can be.

Take this as a complaint from a loyal Sony consumer.

M.H.A.Q.S.

UPDATE: This release has been superseded by a new release. Please see this post.

Hey everyone,

I never got to complete my entry for PaperKing3D and that was PaperSteer – the Opensteer port to Papervision3D. However, I have opened a google repository of the project here. All future updates will be posted at this website. Anyone having any issues or requests with the port can ask me on this blog or through the project website.

If anyone wants to help me out in the project, please let me know as well.

Regards,
MHAQS

Update: I have uploaded the source for the visualizer and a new version in this post.

The past month has been lazy and utterly boring. However, I still managed to work on two projects. I put the PaperKing3D project aside and did not have the energy to complete it. i did finish working off from an alpha version of my PV3D music visualizer. I call it the R4-Visualizer. You can take a look at it below:

And don’t forget to press the SPACEBAR to see the other modes .

I will release a source once I am finished with it completely. I have worked on Opensteer as well and the plugins are now there. I will be uploading the sources for opensteer soon. However, I am still working on it and it is NOT working whatsoever, simply because I have not written the code for that . You can also download the Visualizer above from here and to use it, just put an mp3 file named “sound” next to it and it will work great. Oh, and before I forget, I made a simple wallpaper out of the fantastic Visualizer, you can download it from here.

Regards,
MHAQS