Saturday the 28th CLUB TABAC organizes a cross-reality event. This means the party hosted by De Balie Amsterdam will be streamed into Second Life, as well as the virtual party in Second Life will be streamed into the real life party (and remixed to the music). There will be debates, music (DJ’s Mark the Machine [...]

Posted on: June 26, 2008 | No Comments »

Yesterday I was at the Virtual Web Symposium on eLearning in Amsterdam. I joined co-bloggers Frank Husman and Johan Vermij amongst 20-30 other present in the real world in a very interesting afternoon/evening of presentations on various themes (some indirectly) related to Virtual Worlds. In a reasonably smooth cross-media presentation of joining both real life, [...]

Posted on: February 28, 2008 | 2 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 »

This weekend was the weekend (16/17th of feb) of MetaverseU. Some of the worlds brightest and most entrepreneurial minds gathered at Stanford University to discuss the future of Virtual Worlds. The opportunities, progression since the start of the Metaverse Roadmap Project and shamelessly promote their own accomplishments, platforms and services. Here are some quick notes [...]

Posted on: February 18, 2008 | No Comments »

In light of my Virtual World ‘Mash Up’ research I opened up a small ‘Digado’ office in Second Life. Apart from being used as my own small Mash Up laboratory I’ve just finished me very own meeting room - Something I’ve been missing so far when dealing with in-world discussions. You can visit my office [...]

Posted on: December 27, 2007 | No Comments »