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One Step Toward Interoperable Virtual Worlds
Linden Labs has successfully moved an SL avatar to OpenSim according to a post made earlier this month by Zha Ewery. Although the news was kept pretty low key, I can’t help but think this is the equivalent of what the first steps on the moon are for virtual worlds… being able to move from […]
Introduction to Second Life for GEO 493
Below are the presentation and links mentioned in my visit to John Bailey’s GEO 493 class…
A Virtual World Metblog
There’s a lot of buzz right now about Metblogs, a collection of city-centric blogs from around the world, running off of the WordPress Multi-user platform. It is a great looking site, but more than that I like that they have included a blog about Azeroth, a place in WoW. I almost missed the link, but […]
Presentation about Second Life Using Stixy
Yesterday I gave a couple of small presentations about Second Life to small groups using Stixy instead of PowerPoint.There wasn’t a lot of time to prepare for these, so I collected images, some were mine and some I found on Flickr, included the proper attribution to the photos and was finished.
Unfortunately, for both presentations […]
The Iditarod in Second Life
The Iditarod is a huge event here in Alaska and the race kicked off this year just a couple of days ago on 01 March. The race was also commemorated in Second Life with a Virtual Iditarod. I wasn’t able to log onto over the weekend to attend the event, but Anchorage’s own Aliza Sherman […]
Lip Sync Voice Chat for Your SL Avatar?
If possible, this is something that would make SL a little less creepy. Links to more info at:
The SL Wiki
The SL Beta bug tracker wiki
Searching the Internet of Things: Overlay Concept
Designer Mac Funamizu has come up with an elegant conceptual solution for searching the environment that surrounds us. Beyond searching by text as we have become accustomed to with services like Google, the device searches by scanning an object from the environment itself. Imagine being able to search for things you have no reference for, […]
Streaming Video from a Nokia N800
There is an interesting write up on how to stream video taken on a Nokia N800 into Second Life here. It would be an odd circumstance that I would need to do this, but it is certainly good to know it is possible.
MMO for Kids Teaches Environmental Strategies?
Leigh Alexander of Worlds in Motion writes about an MMO IBM is launching the first quarter of this year, which will have kids staving off planetary ecological disaster by employing wind, solar, and water power strategies.
New Theme, More Posts?
We’ll see if the correlation holds true. Kinda like when you were little and got new sneakers - because they made you run faster, right? My intent is to start posting more here again.
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