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CAVEUT at the Collisseum

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Posted by Ken Rigby (MellaniuM, Tele3DWorld) on August 19, 2008 at 5:23am — No Comments

iClone: virtual worlds meets 3D animation, machinima

Came across this interesting animation software, courtesy of a social bookmark from one of my IBM virtual worlds colleagues, Michael Rowe. What iClone seems to offer is another example of the democratization of 3D, in this case making it relatively easier to create 3D movies. Not going to give Maya or Pixar a run for the money, but for $200, a pretty powerful looking tool.

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Posted by Jack Mason on August 11, 2008 at 9:29am — No Comments

A Call for Papers

CFP: JISE Special Issue - Impacts of Web 2.0 and Virtual World Technologies on IS Education http://docrea.org/jise/ Whether it's a social networking site like Facebook, a video stream delivered via YouTube, or collaborative discussion and document sharing via Google Apps, more people are using Web 2.0 technologies to communicate, express ideas, and form relationships centered around topical interests. Virtual Worlds immerse partici… Continue

Posted by rea on August 9, 2008 at 8:00pm — No Comments

50 Worlds in Seven Minutes

Fine video compendium of the range of virtual worlds people are inhabiting...great way to show the rest of the world what's happening on this front.

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Posted by Jack Mason on August 5, 2008 at 10:38am — No Comments

Mythology and The Shops At Sconifinate Grand Opening Event

Mythology and The Shops at Sconfinate Press Release Mythology and the Shops At Sconfinate would like to invite you to join them as they celebrate the grand opening of not only Mythology, owned by Aeris Pinazzo, but also the opening of the shopping district and residential; area on the sim. The SIM owner Burattino String is excited to open the sim up to the Second Life community. There will be models dispalying some of the hottest new trends, music, dancing, games and so much more. Schedule of… Continue

Posted by Sadie Pippita on August 5, 2008 at 2:28am — No Comments

Motorability Island, UnitedSpinal.org & AskPatty to Appear on "Tonight Live" In Second Life

AskPatty's Jody DeVere will co-star with her son Joe DeVere in their Second Life roles as Patty Streeter and Stoked Skytower on Second Life's highest-rated television show, "Tonight Live with Paisley Beebe." Scheduled to appear on Monday, August 4th at 6pm SLT, the duo will dis… Continue

Posted by Patty Streeter aka Jody DeVere on August 3, 2008 at 7:18pm — No Comments

My Thoughts on Second Life as platform for The Greyhound Project

From the day I joined second life the feeling of being an outsider has always been there, not talking about just the usual experiences of neewbiedom, but in the very nature of the demography, I even remember the dilemma of what to put in my profile tab, meeting people yes , but after that well! On reading my recent email from Nick Wilson of Clever Zebra on the vBusiness Expo I realized that Steve Prentice, VP at Gartner Group hit the nail on the head with his keynote address " It's about… Continue

Posted by Kwame Oh on August 3, 2008 at 5:27am — No Comments

2009 Mardi Gras Conference on Virtual Worlds: Call for Proposals

On behalf of the LSU Center for Computation & Technology (CCT), we invite you to participate in the 16th annual Mardi Gras Conference on “Virtual Worlds: New Realms for Culture, Creativity, Commerce, Computation and Communication,” which will take place in Baton Rouge, Louisiana February 19-21, 2009. The Mardi Gras Conference is currently accepting proposals for papers, workshops, panels and posters. If you or other faculty/students at your university are conducting research in virtual envi… Continue

Posted by Kristen on July 30, 2008 at 9:15am — No Comments

Cieo Creative Blog: Screenplay

Screenplay is a blog about connecting the dots between kids, toys and online play. Visit Cieo's blog at: www.cieocreative.com/blog Continue

Posted by Jason Goodman on July 28, 2008 at 2:35pm — No Comments

Wedding Themed Fashion Show and Event

On Saturday July 19, 2008 the owners of the SS Royal Romance, Sundance Latte and Venus Staryk held a wedding themed fashion show with a formal reception/ball to follow.I was lucky enough to be a part of this amazing event as the coordinator through Sand Castle Studios. Reed Steamro… Continue

Posted by Sadie Pippita on July 21, 2008 at 12:06am — No Comments

Discourse on "Virtual World Economics-Fair Value for Professional Services"

In reading Sophrosyne's excellent post with her comments on the article I'd written entitled "Virtual World Economics: “Fair Value for Professional Services" and the interesting post by Dale Innis in response, I felt this merited a new blog of its own. Soph's argument (and John Jainschigg's at http://www.zzomg.com) argue that the virtual world economy is colonial, third world country and introducing atomic world pricing for goods and services would have a negative impact. I think though, that w… Continue

Posted by Kim Smith (Rissa Maidstone) on July 19, 2008 at 10:21pm — No Comments

Life's Ultimate Test

Life isn’t always easy. Some say life is a struggle, a challenge. We often hear the saying “up a creek without a paddle.” Life can be a test, you’re either prepared or unprepared. Who we become as adults is greatly influenced by the way we are raised as children. The abilities and skills to survive and excel in this test of life are forever ingrained in us by our parents and educators. In this fast-paced ever evolving world, the prepared are able to rise to the challenges of life and fortune of… Continue

Posted by Doris Anne Beaulieu on July 19, 2008 at 10:18am — No Comments

Second Life Looks at Lively

Like most virtual worlds natives, we hate adding overmuch to the hype surrounding these profound technologies. And we're especially sensitive about claiming "firsts" — something corporations have been over-eager to do in virtual world spaces. That said, last night, Saturday, July 12 at 8 PM EST, we hosted Second Life Looks at Lively, a panel of major media virtual worlds watchers doing a week-one "first impressions" vamp on Google's introduction of their Lively virtual world service, this past M… Continue

Posted by Kim Smith (Rissa Maidstone) on July 18, 2008 at 8:59pm — 1 Comment

Voice to text Script?

Does anyone know of a script or Hud that works in either Second Life or Open Life that converts voice to text like a Speech Recognition Software that types into the Chat Bar or IM bar? Continue

Posted by Myron Curtis on July 18, 2008 at 5:19pm — No Comments

AskPatty Streeter to Speak at BlogHer in Second Life on Motorability Island

BlogHer's annual conference begins July 18, 2008, and once again Ask Patty is a proud sponsor of BlogHer in Second Life. BlogHer is one of the top womenâs online networks and the number-one guide to blogs by women. Patty Streeter aka Jody DeVere, CEO/President of AskPatty.com will be speaking on Friday, July 18th 12:45 - 2pm (SLT) at the BlogHer Second Life conference session "Second Life and Security." BlogHer's annual conference is like no other -- it is the thrilling diversity of the blogo… Continue

Posted by Patty Streeter aka Jody DeVere on July 18, 2008 at 4:53pm — No Comments

Nelson Mandela Tribute in Second Life...

Uthango is pleased to announce the company teams up with several other communities to celebrate the 90th birthday of Nelson Mandela today. We will also facilitate a month of celebrations and tributes across the grid, and would like to hear from anyone who will be hosting a special event, creating a build or exhibiting artwork in honor of this great global leader and states person. There is a more detailed write-up about the exciting initiative, Madiba… Continue

Posted by Alanagh Recreant on July 18, 2008 at 8:30am — No Comments

SS Royal Romance Grand Opening

Press Release SS Royal Romance SIM Grand Opening Saturday July 19th at 5:00pm Second Life Time, Sundance Latte along with his business partner Venus Staryk would like to invite you to the SS Royal Romance Grand Opening event featuring a wedding themed fashion show.This fashion show will highlight some of Second Life's most talented wedding attire designers. The Bellissima, !YULI, Madame P., Styles Of Edo, Dani's and Designs By Dyanna will be displaying some of their finest and most magnificent… Continue

Posted by Sadie Pippita on July 16, 2008 at 2:58pm — No Comments

Keeping It Real In a Virtual World

How does one know what is truth and reality when dealing, playing and working in a virtual world? The reason I am writing this is due to the fact that at some point we all question someones honesty when in all reality you cannot see the person, only the avatar of someone you may talk to or work with in a virtual world. I may be Sadie Pippita in Second Life, but in the real world I am Kim Randall. I have the same voice, feelings, opinions, fears, desires, likes, dislikes and so on as Sadie only I… Continue

Posted by Sadie Pippita on July 14, 2008 at 8:05am — No Comments

A New and Amazing Designer!!

OK every so often I come across a designer that I absolutely love and tonight that designer fell right into my lap (not really). Aeris Pinazzo had stopped by Sand Castle Studios earlier in the day when I was not online and when I did happen to log back in I contacted her from a visitors list that I use. She TP'd me to her location and I was stunned. Her clothes are wonderful. Even this textured ad doesn't show just how wonderful the clothes are. She has just started out only 2 weeks ago and I co… Continue

Posted by Sadie Pippita on July 14, 2008 at 8:04am — 1 Comment

Can't Forget...

This one time a little over a year ago, I met a man in Second Life that would change my life as I knew it then for good. He was a kind man, married, but so nice to me. We became friends and talked from time to time. He helped me out with my computer (which is still a piece) however it does work a bit better. Our friendship grew and grew and grew until before either of us knew it, we fell in love. We had to always be talking and Skyping. I loved seeing him on the web cam (nothing naughty). We tal… Continue

Posted by Sadie Pippita on July 14, 2008 at 8:03am — No Comments

Happy 5th Birthday to Second Life

So I was recently passed a note card asking me "How do you feel about Second Life on it's 5th birthday?" Hmmm..... That is a very good question. In this note card there are instructions about either voice recording your thoughts, which by the way is preferred :-) , OR responding via note card with 140 characters or less. I am a bit torn as there is a lot that I would love to say on this issue (personal experiences) I would definitely love to voice my opinion on things and people that have been b… Continue

Posted by Sadie Pippita on July 14, 2008 at 8:02am — No Comments

So here I am again...

So here I am again, trying to sleep, but I can't. I want to blame him. I want him to be the reason that I can't lie in bed without my thoughts drifting back to this one time.... This time where I, for the most part, was happy and he was in my life. Now I do know that all things happen for a reason. What I do not understand is what reason that is. For me to hate life and myself a little more every day? For his wife to pay more attention to him? What did I do exactly to deserve this sort of tortur… Continue

Posted by Sadie Pippita on July 14, 2008 at 8:01am — No Comments

MellaniuM and the CaveUT Project.

MellaniuM and the CAVEUT tele-immersion project Mellanium has started to port its 3D environment Virtual Real World products into the CAVEUT . CAVEUT is an open source freeware project to make tele-immersive projection-based virtual reality affordable and accessible. CAVEUT is available in various versions from simple home made to advanced real-time spatial tracking and stereo graphic imaging. By employing a commercially available 3D engine (UE2-3) richly detailed graphics, high-speed performan… Continue

Posted by Ken Rigby (MellaniuM, Tele3DWorld) on July 8, 2008 at 6:45am — No Comments

Second Life vs UT2004

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Posted by Ken Rigby (MellaniuM, Tele3DWorld) on July 6, 2008 at 7:02am — No Comments

Forward to Tele3DWorld Immersion.

Forward to Tele3DWorld Immersion. As prices of computing hardware falls and software standardization and reusability becomes common place, like the computers of yesterday, the tele-immersive systems of today will also become available to the general public. Along with this is expected to become a powerful drive into tele-immersive application development in all applicable areas. There also exists the possibility for future application of tele-immersion in some new areas like Music Synthesis, Ps… Continue

Posted by Ken Rigby (MellaniuM, Tele3DWorld) on July 5, 2008 at 7:00pm — No Comments

More friends, less bugs, and many new features online

Hullo Myrlers,

it's time for an update. During the past four weeks we have been working hard developing new features and fixing quite a lot of bugs.

Here're some of the brand new features online now:…

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Posted by Myrlit on July 3, 2008 at 2:00pm — No Comments

I'm planning not to update this blog

I'm planning not to update my blog in this community. Same for others ning.com groups I'm in. Right now I'm streaming to FriendFeed [My page -- Second Life Room] everything I do, cool things I find and interesting news I want to share. Continue

Posted by Opensource Obscure on July 2, 2008 at 7:57am — No Comments

Beta for Aqros: The mobile Messanger for Second Life (and other virtual worlds)

I'm interesting to see what kind of usages you see here: I have been working with Aqros to fine tune their Social Virtual Worlds Messenger. Their vision is simple: "Allow you to connect with your virtual worlds friends anywhere with your mobile." The first version worlds with Second Life. It looks like this:

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Posted by Yesha Sivan on July 1, 2008 at 3:52pm — No Comments

Economics threatens Second Life surfing

Economic pressures are taking their toll on surf sims in Second Life and it seems certain that more surf sims will close during the coming months. Rezzable, one of Second Life's leading sim owner/developers, announced the closing of Surfline Aloha and Surfline Epic sims on Saturday, half-way through what has been a very up and down year for Rezzable's Second Life surfing venture. Most of Surflines' surfing waves were turned off for much of February and March and Rezzable created a new temporary… Continue

Posted by Barchan on June 29, 2008 at 12:51am — No Comments

Classroom Mashup: Edusim Virtual World + Smartboard + Wiimote [PART 2]

Directional device meets interactive surface pt. 2 http://sourceforge.net/projects/darwiin-remote… Continue

Posted by Rich White on June 27, 2008 at 9:41pm — No Comments

New Media: are the Virtual Real Worlds the New Media?

What is the definition of New Media. Surely Web2.0 is now old media. The new media will be immersive 3D environments; using the technology developed by the CGI, gaming, and film industries will be the future media. We need to start preparing for this rather than the 2D text, images and flashy flashy web sites with no content; just a front office metaphor. I believe we should start planning now for the future revolution; we are at the beginning of a wave of change that will completely change… Continue

Posted by Ken Rigby (MellaniuM, Tele3DWorld) on June 26, 2008 at 3:31am — No Comments

A bumper Second Life surfing season draws to a close!

Last night's 2008 Second Life Surfing Association (SLSA) Season One Champion Awards Party officially marked the end of the year's first Second Life surfing season with Second Life resident Pova Rustamova being declared the season champion, after tablulating the results of the first five Second Life surfing competitions of 2008. With ten qualifying SLSA surfing competitions in the year, plus twenty-odd other surfing competitions that are not included in the SLSA rankings (such as this month's Re… Continue

Posted by Barchan on June 21, 2008 at 6:54am — No Comments

MellaniuM's presentation to TSB, Bristol; 10th June 2008

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Posted by Ken Rigby (MellaniuM, Tele3DWorld) on June 13, 2008 at 5:40pm — No Comments

Future of Education

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Posted by Ken Rigby (MellaniuM, Tele3DWorld) on June 13, 2008 at 5:56am — No Comments

Relive Rome: Walk in the footsteps of Marcus Vitruvius.

Until now, you could visit Rome and “do as the Romans do”, with Relive Rome™ you will also be able to “do what the Romans did and experience in a virtual environment what Romans experienced in 200AD”. What was it really like to live in the ancient Rome; Caput Mundi was the center of the world, with its mad emperors, brutal entertainment and its seductive lifestyles? Through Relive Rome™, it is expected that 10 million people a year worldwide will experience the city’s past, tele-… Continue

Posted by Ken Rigby (MellaniuM, Tele3DWorld) on June 5, 2008 at 4:00pm — No Comments

You can help investigate human and avatar personality by taking brief test

I invite all interested human/avatar duos to participate in a fun exploration into human vs. avatar personality traits. Many active Second Life users experience their avatar and human expressions as distinct beings with unique and even contradictory personality qualities. For instance, a human may be shy and modest while the associated avatar is the flirtatious life of a party. To look more closely at this phenomenon, I thought it would be interesting to do some informal investigation together… Continue

Posted by Botgirl Questi on May 29, 2008 at 1:01pm — No Comments