BREAKING NEWS
The University of W has conducted a survey amongst X residents/people within the Y demographic and found Z. Virtual World analyst/University professor A is not surprised by the outcome saying:
“Result Z has been a trend for the past 12 months, and our research confirms this. However Result Z counters the predictions made in article [...]

Posted on: August 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »

 
One of my key interests in virtual reality, or virtual environments is the way it is able communicate an experience, linear immersive experiences (otherwise known as stories) in particular. We use stories for more than entertainment, stories hold tremendous value for social progress and preservation of culture (history), the industry (advertising), creativity and inspiration (fiction), [...]

Posted on: August 24, 2008 | No Comments »

…because this phone seems kinda fun. Well, the packaging is anyways.

Posted on: August 21, 2008 | No Comments »

With the recent Interface debate and competition I thought it was nice to bookmark and link the great overview of ‘futuristic interfaces‘ Smashing Magazine has posted recently. Amongst some of the things I posted about earlier, they list some prototypes that seek to improve the immersion into 3D, or bring virtual (3D) scenes to the [...]

Posted on: August 19, 2008 | No Comments »

 
With the recent launch of a number of virtual worlds such as Google Lively, Vivity and WebFlock virtual worlds inside the browsers seems ‘the way to go’. This poses many interesting questions, the most obvious one so far goes something like “Will browser-based worlds such as Google Lively replace virtual worlds requiring a download and [...]

Posted on: August 16, 2008 | 35 Comments »

I must have missed the Rivers Run Red promotional video for their development in the Google World Lively, because apparently it has been up since the 8th of July. But as it was just a great promotional clip of the platform and Rivers run Red as a development company I bookmarked it here [...]

Posted on: August 13, 2008 | No Comments »

Yesterday the winners of the Dusan Writer Second Life interface Contest were announced live on Metanomics. After a short overview of all the contestants, the finalists and final winner are as follows:
First place: Rheta Shan
A well deserved winner, she got the viewer and presentation done down to the last details. As major improvements I’d list [...]

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It’s no wonder Linden Labs recently choose to hire former AOL Frank Ambrose to oversee work on scalability problems with Second Life, they had a vision. The above video shows a promotion for Q-Link, an America Online (AOL) enterprise. Social networks, ‘twitter’ (message boards), sharing and virtual worlds, its all there. Who said things have [...]

Posted on: August 12, 2008 | No Comments »