Go ahead - click on the image above, you know you want to.
The Russian team of Alternativa 3D brings you a new, one click Virtual World. A Flash 3D development project like Papervision3D and an ambitious roadmap towards the final release of this clientless, engine less world. Though the big advantages versus Papervision or engine [...]

Posted on: April 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Sometimes you find Machinima too good to ignore. This is one of them.
Credits: “Invisible Threads” | 10 Simple Steps to your very own Virtual Sweatshop with Telematic Manufacturing | Original Concept by Jeff Crouse & Stephanie Rothenberg | Video Directed by Annie Ok, Jeff Crouse & Stephanie Rothenberg | Machinima by Annie Ok | [...]

Posted on: April 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »

This week I noticed a sudden burst of news about development of the avatar. Technologyreview.com reports 3D agency DAZ Productions presented the ambitious plan to allow their users to create high detail avatars, and importing them into multiple virtual worlds. I think the single avatar identity, and consistency would really be a valuable contribution, [...]

Posted on: April 10, 2008 | 6 Comments »

When I posted ‘The Teen Dilemma’ it was already obvious how Linden Labs was missing out on the big potential for the next couple of years - the teen based worlds. Neopets claim of 30 million unique users, Club Penguins sale and nickelodeon’s announcement to open a series of virtual worlds made sure even the [...]

Posted on: April 8, 2008 | 9 Comments »

GeoSim Systems released its latest mirrorworld with an impressive website and application: ‘Geosimphilli’. A fully immersive virtual environment, mirrored from the real centre of Philadelphia is the last in the Virtual Cities series. Geosim Philli offers a shopping, Virtual Tours of the city, an interactive map showing projected plans for Philadelphia in 15 years from [...]

Posted on: April 6, 2008 | No Comments »

The dedication of IBM to virtual worlds interoperability has reached a new milestone: Second Life servers behind the firewalls. Reuters (who broke the embargo a little too early) reports of the first series of company owned servers using Second Life technology. The operate in IBM’s private network behind firewalls, though can be opened to their [...]

Posted on: April 3, 2008 | No Comments »

New World Notes reports of ‘Adult Lifestyle brand’ Playboy adding their branding to a number of well-known metabrands of clothing designers. A metabrand is a brand which only exist within the Virtual Worlds. The picture above is taken on the Playboy Sim in Second Life - it shows one of the 4 corners in their [...]

Posted on: April 1, 2008 | No Comments »