{"id":105049,"date":"2019-12-06T22:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/355321"},"modified":"2019-12-06T22:32:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T22:32:00","slug":"adobe-acquires-3d-vr-sculpting-tool-medium-from-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/06\/adobe-acquires-3d-vr-sculpting-tool-medium-from-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe acquires 3D VR sculpting tool Medium from Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe has picked up Facebook&#8217;s Oculus-focused sculpting program Medium for an undisclosed sum, a move the Medium team says brings the tool out of strictly video games and to a wider creative audience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an important milestone for the entire VR community as it demonstrates VR\u2019s maturation and value in the realms of productivity and non-gaming use cases,\u201d reads the announcement over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oculus.com\/blog\/a-new-chapter-for-medium-joining-the-adobe-family\/?\">on the Oculus blog<\/a>. \u201cWe look forward to Medium\u2019s continued evolution in the years to come as Adobe works to advance the field of 3D modeling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the short term, nothing is changing for current Medium users. In the longer term, the only shift mentioned is a vague note of \u201cfeatures, improvements, and other developments\u201d headed to the platform&nbsp;starting in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe has picked up Facebook&#8217;s Oculus-focused sculpting program Medium for an undisclosed sum, a move the Medium team says brings the tool out of strictly video games and to a wider creative audience. \u201cThis is an important milestone for the entire VR community as it demonstrates VR\u2019s maturation and value in the realms of productivity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}