“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 »

One of the thing’s I’ve been really hesitant to write about is the open source development of various platforms. I simply haven’t had the time to really get involved yet in between Second Life and Active World. Though the developments look increasingly interesting none the less. The rapid developments and problems these ‘open’ Second Life [...]

Posted on: April 22, 2008 | No Comments »

This week I noticed a sudden burst of news about development of the avatar. Technologyreview.com reports 3D agency DAZ Productions presented the ambitious plan to allow their users to create high detail avatars, and importing them into multiple virtual worlds. I think the single avatar identity, and consistency would really be a valuable contribution, [...]

Posted on: April 10, 2008 | 6 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 »

 
Metaversed send out a (Second Life) group notice this morning announcing a new business they will be launching. Metaversed.com is a news site, reporting about Second Life and virtual world events. Metaversed/Metanomics is a platform for business meetings/seminars within Second Life. Both their website and inworld presence have been quite popular so far and they continue [...]

Posted on: January 4, 2008 | 14 Comments »