“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 »

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 »

Tuesday and Wednesday I logged into the ‘Learning Grounds’ of IBM’s ‘What’s Missing‘ Learning summit. After a remarkably easy download process I found myself in one of the most boring environments ever to be part of the 3D web. I wasn’t really shocked with the poor visual quality of the Active Worlds set up, but… [...]

Posted on: February 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »

In and earlier article I mentioned the 7 things marketers could learn from online games, and IBM published a report on how games can teach important leadership skills of the future. Now John Seely Brown, a scholar at the University of South Carolina and Douglas Thomas, an associate professor at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication [...]

Posted on: February 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Interesting months ahead for the gaming industry. The big gaming news of Q1 2008 was EA announcing its plans to release its FPS game Battlefield Heroes for free. It offers the game as a free download, and supports it trough micro-payments (you can buy in-game bonuses for real money or pay monthly fees for premium [...]

Posted on: February 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »

This scenario is based on the dominance of software. The posibilitys the facilitators of the metaverses offer will be key to the success of one, universal metaverse. The timeline is based on what is about to happen in the next 5-15 yeas (as are most of my scenario’s). The key elements are merging 2d web [...]

Posted on: December 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »