Business in Virtual Worlds
David Rumsey has digitized 17,000 historical maps. You can now walk around them in Second Life, as well as cross-reference and remix them. The 3D build comes courtesy of the geniuses over at Centric, but it’s Rumsey that deserves credit for having a vision to do something truly remarkable. He’s taken a huge collection of [...]
Yay, a new social content platform came out today! It’s called BricaBox! How random! Woooo!
What’s that?
Oh it’s… like… you make your own Flickr, YouTube, Wiki, link-sharing, whatever mashup social website of your dreams via a simple drag and drop interface. Free! (Insert blinking red and yellow “FREE” animated GIF here.)
Hate reading? Of course you do! [...]
Harper’s voice carries across worlds.
When Linden Lab was first announcing that they were bringing voice to Second Life, it bothered me. Actually, I was ticked right off.
For the most part I was just sick of the grid crashing, massive lag, and an overall disappointing experience around the grid. We kept complaining, and they kept rolling [...]
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As we come down to the end of the year I find myself once again in a strange moment of transition. A few months ago I said goodbye to my little Games Park and settled on Metaversed Island. Now we’re renaming the island and moving it… I’ll fill you in on that [...]
WHOA! Where did this come from?
It’s a perfectly polished little bit of machinima about a noob discovering SL for the first time. Funny, well-paced, and even sponsored! Nice find Moo!
JenzZa Misfit’s RDV tool recently got an upgrade to make it Havok 4 compatible. (I have it on good authority that a lot of vehicle makers are about to be completely blindsided by how much less backwards-compatible Havok 4 is than Linden Lab says.)
JenzZa just came out with a new version that’s for “just friends”, [...]
“Truth about Facebook” by Vishal Agarwala - original presentation in Flash
In part, this is about grassroots journalism. The original flash has 3170 “diggs” at the time of this writing, having been created sometime in 2006. AlbinoBlackSheep picked it up from there, and then others used screen-capture software to make videos of the presentation and upload [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We got a new search in Second Life. It works much better than the old one. Hell, it’s Google-powered. Unfortunately, as Tateru Nino recently discovered, there’s a huge bug when it comes to working around the Intellectual Property system. You can basically obtain any texture in Second Life now for free, and nobody will know.
I [...]
