When I talk about ‘the immersion in virtual worlds’ it’s not uncommon I get a questioning look. Most of the time I use a simplified example of the Matrix - The Matrix illustrates complete, 100% artificial ‘immersion’ into virtuality. At first I get a smile and something along the lines of: “yes, but we don’t [...]

Posted on: June 10, 2008 | 4 Comments »

“Something a little scary, when shots of ruths jumping on empty sims makes eveeryone jump up and down with excitement” - Zwa Ewry
Funny because it’s true. IBM engineer Zwa Ewry describes the landing of Layla Linden on an OpenSim location. In itself not a noteworthy event if it wasn’t for the previous location the avatar [...]

Posted on: June 7, 2008 | No Comments »

Recently Dusan Writer challenged the community to design a new user interface for Second Life. The emphasis in the contest seems to be a ‘light’ client, for new users to find their way in Second Life during the first hours/days. Dusan reserved 500,000L (roughly 1,830$) for the best design, 200,000L and 100,000L for the 2nd [...]

Posted on: June 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Catching up on 560 unread items items in my Google reader I found the most interesting bit of information in a comment on Au’s piece in Businessweek on the ’supposed death of marketing in Second Life’. The article itself didn’t cover anything we haven’t heard a million times over (foster the community, be remarkable to [...]

Posted on: June 5, 2008 | 6 Comments »

I do not care about the moral implications of the recent controversy surrounding the 5th anniversary of Second Life. I wouldn’t have visited it, I don’t think its a big PR event, and quite frankly probably wouldn’t have even known about it at all if it wasn’t for the stupidity of Linden Labs. I’m really [...]

Posted on: June 1, 2008 | 11 Comments »