Last week Second Life introduced HTML, allowing webpages to be displayed within the client on 3Dobjects, but It didn’t take long for the web to retaliate introducing ‘Virtual Environments on a Webpage’. Using Flash Papervision3D (No special plug-in required but Flashplayer 8.0, installed on 95% of the systems) Nike created the Virtual Hotel Suite [...]

Posted on: March 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Just when I was wondering what’s taking 3D goggles with head tracking so long to become a mainstream product (I mean, how much would 2 mobile phone screens, 2 webcams and 2 infra red lights mounted on a pair of goggles cost these days?), I noticed this peculiar post on Phones Review.co.uk. Apparently KPCB’s iFund [...]

Posted on: March 10, 2008 | 8 Comments »

If you stay on the ‘business’ side of Second Life for too long you’d almost forget it’s still so much fun to be inside social virtual environments such as Second Life. There are a lot of developments everyday, new opportunities and serious technological progress, but above all, it’s its a new and entertaining environment. [...]

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Giff Constable of the Electric Sheep Company (ESC) blogged some very interesting notes for the #SXSW (South-by-South-West) gathering in Austin, Texas everyone seems to be attending (9 out 10 twitters is suddenly tagged SXSW). The place to be for social media evangelists at this moment. Research agency Forrester made a very interesting presentation [...]

Posted on: March 9, 2008 | No Comments »

After Croquet and Open Sim Linden Labs introduces ‘HTML-on-a-Prim’. You can now see 2D websites from within the virtual world Second Life. This has been a popular request from the community for a while now, and today Linden Lab released their new, test client with the ability to import images of websites on 3D objects. [...]

Posted on: March 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »

In an earlier article I stated how problems push acceptance. Innovation processes (both of the individual, social and corporate) are usually low the the ‘to do’ list unless you/we/they are faced with a problem. But once we do start looking for solutions to solve these problems, creative and innovative processes are set in motion and [...]

Posted on: March 6, 2008 | No Comments »

Trough Virtual Worlds News I was shown a really interesting website, the Nottingham Trent University publications on cyberpsycology. Their most recent report covers the phenomena of ‘Gender Swapping and Socializing in Cyberspace’. The report includes the remarkable conclusion 57% out of 119 gamers included in the research indicated to choose an avatar of the opposite [...]

Posted on: March 5, 2008 | No Comments »

Game world, Lucid World, Metaverse, MMORPG, MMO, MOO / MUSH, MUD, WoW, RPG, HUD, RCE, RMT, Synthetic World, Social World, Thick Virtual World, Thin Virtual World, Virtual World - Lost yet? Ren Reynolds posted a great start up post over at Terra Nova on all the terms you run in too all to often [...]

Posted on: March 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »