A new promotional video of Home showcasing the promotional event spaces. It still promises amazing visuals and great designs. Though limited to the Playstation 3, I have a feeling this is going to be what Second Life should have been on a social and graphical level. The advantage of Sonys Home being they know who [...]

Posted on: June 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »

When I talk about ‘the immersion in virtual worlds’ it’s not uncommon I get a questioning look. Most of the time I use a simplified example of the Matrix - The Matrix illustrates complete, 100% artificial ‘immersion’ into virtuality. At first I get a smile and something along the lines of: “yes, but we don’t [...]

Posted on: June 10, 2008 | 4 Comments »

 
The issue of interoperability between virtual worlds has been a strange one for a long time. It seems like everyone wants it, everyone agrees we need ‘web-like’ standards of data exchange between worlds, but no one seems to interested in building it. If anyone, IBM seems to have the best papers to build VRML’s successor, [...]

Posted on: May 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »

The adoption of mobile technology hasn’t been a matter of ‘if’ for a long time now, but seems to be stuck on the ‘when’. I used to think the ‘next gen’ phones with larger screens and continuous internet access where to be the last step towards mass adoption, but I don’t see ‘the masses’ running [...]

Posted on: May 21, 2008 | 8 Comments »

When the development of ‘Windlight’ (Second Life’s graphic improvements) was announced, it was greeted with much controversy. While some where happy about a graphics upgrade, most wondered about the priorities of Linden Lab. Platform stability was the big issue then, and the users rightfully wondered whether this new feature which obviously was not just [...]

Posted on: May 13, 2008 | 7 Comments »

One of the most involved, and accurate news sources covering Virtual Worlds posted an interview with Philip Rosedale, former CEO of Linden Research, Inc. The Guardian interviewer David Smith talks to (an audible tired) the founder of Second Life about the current state of affairs, and the future of the Virtual World. To summarize the [...]

Posted on: May 6, 2008 | 6 Comments »

Another presentation by Cory Ondrejka (Former CTO of Linden Research, Inc.) on the future of Virtual worlds. I’m really glad it confirms some of my own, recent thoughts on the metaverse as I have a lot of respect for Cory’s vision towards Virtual Worlds. The basic component of Corys presentation is ‘expectations’. How are [...]

Posted on: April 30, 2008 | No Comments »

The Association of Virtual Worlds released a useful 40 page eBook listing all Virtual Worlds available, completely free for download:
The Blue Book: A Consumer Guide to Virtual Worlds Is Now Available Free from the Association of Virtual Worlds
The Association of Virtual Worlds has just released its new title The Blue Book: A Consumer Guide [...]

Posted on: April 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »