Archive for April 4th, 2008

New vid of that Real Life - Second Life interface

A few days ago I spoke of a novel Real Life interface with Second Life, using a 3-axis accelerometer. Via Komuso Tokugawa, I’ve learned that Tori Teatime has created a better video to explain what transpires. …

article on virtual worlds

A researcher at Stanford makes some bold claims about our relationships to our avatars in “What Happens in a Virtual World has a Real-World Impact, Scholar Finds” in the Chronicle of Higher Education (by subscription). Jeremy N. …

Live Stage: The Breath Collectors [Second Life]

http://slurl.com/secondlife/East%20of%20Odyssey/66/27/40. 2. Odyssey_Art and Performance Simulator (85,12,22) - 10 minutes http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/128/128/0. 3. Ars Virtua Convening Space (5,56,41) - 15 minutes …

Dorkwad Congressman … In Second Life

Several days ago he held a Congressional hearing in Second Life, a specially designed “virtual world” for sociopaths, furries, and flying penis “avatars.” I really hate when journalists and blogger who think they are greater-than-thou …

Augmentation or Immersion

Looking around the blogs and “wikis” related to Second Life I found an interesting page talking about Immersion and Augmentation, as philosophical concepts of our metaverse. And that made me thought… Am I an Immersionist or an …

Enterprise Second Life

It’s about time IBM announced it would develop Second Life capabilities in a corporate setting. This article in Information Age goes into detail about their new enterprise-ready launch. IBM will release several beta versions before …

Gender and Second Life

Xirconnia Morphett is working on research regarding gender and virtual worlds. It’s interesting so far, but she/he could use some assistance on her/his wiki: 2007 Second Life Conference Presentation Presentation Transcript …

Using the Second Life Wiki

Torley Linden has released a lengthy video tutorial on using the Second Life Wiki: Related storiesMarch 20, 2008 — 22 more Second Life tutorial videosMarch 5, 2008 — Second Life release series of micro-video tutorialsFebruary 28, …

Interactivity in Second Life

You will not look at the Internet in quite the same way again. In his book there is a searing spoof on Second Life for a product called “Real Life”. “Real Life is a 3D Interactive world created and owned by some of its residents”, …

Big IBM/Second Life Announcement this Week!

He let everyone know on his blog posting The i-web Singularity Redux that at Virtual Worlds III this week the announcement was made that Second Life has worked out a deal with IBM to move Second Life behind the IBM corporate firewall. …

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