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 [...]

Posted on: August 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »

What do you do when you don’t want to become ‘just another player’ in the battle over the metaverse? You start by adopting the most incredible graphics engine available, create a plausible setting to put your community building efforts into context, create amazing visuals and concept art to grab the attention (a tactic commonly employed [...]

Posted on: August 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »

MTV and virtual worlds have a ‘thing going on’. Ever since 2006 their name frequently pops up in the media in connection to persistent online worlds. In 2006, the infamous ‘Laguna Beach‘ world was launched as a virtual world based on the Laguna Beach MTV series. But the MTV involvement with virtual environments just [...]

Posted on: July 25, 2008 | No Comments »

Take two on Googles virtual world Lively. I had to try again at home, hoping this time the customization functions would not fail me. Using Vista and Firefox 3 I expected even more problems but apart from having the installer crash once this time I did get to experience the full ‘Livelyness’ of the application.
The [...]

Posted on: July 14, 2008 | No Comments »

Good times for the research agencies. As more and more depends on predicting the outcomes of hypes and trends in the ever increasing phase of internet developments, companies become more and more insecure whether their investments are well spend. R&D departments need a more convincing pitch as they are competing amongst each other, - should [...]

Posted on: June 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Some more updates on the interaction design front of Linden Labs. The focuspoint is the introduction to Second Life, and it’s steep learning curve. After Linden Labs announced their new User Experience Program, and one of the main targets of the new CEO seems to be to really improve the experience of Second Life over [...]

Posted on: April 28, 2008 | 6 Comments »