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Archive for November, 2007

Jean Linden Keynote

On November 19th Jean Linden, Director of International Initiatives, gave a keynote address at the Metaverse 2007 conference. Although the live event in Berlin was postponed until May of next year, they were still able to hold the event in Second Life. The audio recording comes to us courtesy of Bernhard Drax, machinimist and musician [...]

Living In The Future

La_Robotique_Cest_Fantastique_Str8nimE_viD video by M Dot Strange

M Dot’s comment on this video: So once I heard this track by Pnok I had to make an animation for it….and I did in 2 hours with Cinema 4d and After Effects ^^ Pnok’s myspace
Today I heard Jean Miller, director International Initiatives at Linden Lab (via an ultra-secret recording [...]

News And Nanotails

Video Interview: Len Brody, CEO, Now Public: From Hyperlocal to Hyperpersonal
This is an interview by Rafat Ali of paidContent.org. I thought it was particularly timely considering the recent trendiness of CNN’s I-Reports (and the Second Life version), a citizen journalism site that’s making press for… well… being a citizen journalism site. Not that IndyMedia.org hasn’t [...]

Augmented Reality Leaps Forward

The Designer’s Augmented Reality Toolkit (DART) is an enhancement to Director MX that includes real-time video, various sensors, and wizarding methods to support creativity in mixed and augmented reality. You can learn more on the DART website:
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/dart/
We’ve seen augmented reality applications before, but they were always custom-built affairs. People will remember the earlier Augmented Reality [...]

Create Ted Castranova’s Avatar!

Monday at 11am PST Metanomics will be host to Ted Castranova, world-renowned expert on MMORPG economies and one of the first economists to do serious studies there. He has a request: “make me a dwarf female, high fantasy style.”
If you have the talent and the time today, drop your creation in my inventory! (I’m “Onder [...]

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