It’s alive! Well sort of :)
Ever since I finished my research I must confess my interest in virtual worlds has taken a rather dramatic nose-dive. I was seeing a lot of ‘noise’ and very little progress. Maybe I got impatient, maybe after a year of reading paper after paper and blog after blog on virtual [...]

Posted on: February 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »

In a recent interview with ZDnet, Linden Lab’s VP, platforms & technology Joe Miller get to show the corporate face of Second Life. A platform for collaboration for companies such as IBM and… well… IBM. Though the interview itself is not all that remarkable, I did get excited when Dan Farber asked the tough question:
Dan [...]

Posted on: September 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »

More blending of the real and virtual. While virtual worlds tend to emphasize their digital nature, augmented reality will do anything to hide its bits and bites background by blending almost seamlessly into reality. One of the most interesting applications of this augmented (or projected) reality was recently showcased by the Fraunhofer Institute.
Gizmodo: The best [...]

Posted on: September 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »

‘Whether it’s casting magic spells using your mind or relaying expressions in real time, EmoKey links the Emotiv technology to your applications by easily converting detected events into any combination of keystrokes. EmoKey is a nonintrusive, lightweight, background process that runs behind your existing games or applications. EmoKey lets you create profiles that define how [...]

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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 »

…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 »

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 »