Virtual Worlds

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• The Twilight Saga: New Moon Themes Up Habbo Hotel

  
  Animation Blog — Authority: 130
  Summit Entertainment and Habbo Hotel, the largest virtual world for teenagers, today revealed new details for the exclusive The Twilight Saga: New Moon-themed activities, rooms, virtual goods and much more planned to kick-off at Habbo Hotel this week to celebrate the highly anticipated release of The Twilight ...
  7 hours ago

• MyVetwork: Connecting The Digital Dots For Veterans Globally

  
  Shaping Youth — Authority: 120
  Nov. 11, 2009 With the outpouring of sadness regarding Fort Hood, the scary statistics surfacing on PTSD and women soliders under ‘friendly fire’ from missles of a different kind, and work-family/depression conflicts, I figured it was high time for some GOOD news this Veteran’s Day. Every year on ...
  10 hours ago

• Looking for guest bloggers and contributors

  
  Cuppytalk — Authority: 123
  I have been thinking a lot lately about the void in blogging to really target some issues that I think are glazed over in other game journalism.  I’m talking gay issues, alternative culture, transgender issues, feminism, politics, equality, etc. and how they relate to video games, online worlds, and social media.  ...
  10 hours ago

• augmented reality gets social via iPhone

  
  APLINK - itsReal — Authority: 118
  a stray email arrived which unlike most – I found interesting and cool – however the voice-over on the intro video could be younger and hipper to get global ravers – maybe – but the backing music is however cool… check out the dinosaur hmmm Watch the video:  ...
  11 hours ago

• Second Life’s classless server scheme

  
  Be The Gamer — Authority: 456
  Thus far, one of the key factors in Second Life performance has been the class of server hardware hosting the simulator. There are plenty of other non-server items that might contribute to perceived poor performance , of course, but server class versus server utilization is a pretty consistent factor. ...
  14 hours ago

• Revisit The Berlin Wall In Twinity

  
  VizWorld.com — Authority: 490
  You weren’t cool or old enough to be present at the historic fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989?  How about now via virtual time travel in Twinity ? Walk through one of the open-air wall museum gateways at the Brandenburg Gate, Potsdamer Platz, Checkpoint Charlie, and four other locations in Twinity and step back ...
  19 hours ago

• secretbuilders wins 2009 NAPPA Award - Earthtimes (press release)

  
  Webkinz - Collectible Stuffed Animal Toys — Authority: 135
  secretbuilders wins 2009 NAPPA AwardEarthtimes (press release)secretbuilders joins the ranks of past winners such as Club Penguin and Webkinz. secretbuilders, however, is unique among virtual worlds in how it attracts …and more »
  22 hours ago

• AM Radio Waves In Space

  
  cyberloom — Authority: 103
  Sky and desert AM Radio’s installation of satellite dishes has closed. Thanks to the NPIRL group notice from Bettina Tizzy I knew the exhibit was about to vanish away so I flew over to the location to grab a few final hour photos. Satellite dishes and jeep by AM Radio Dusk in the desert Listening to ...
  1 day ago

• SLOODLE wins 4th Novatica Award

  
  Learning Games — Authority: 409
  From http://www.stellarnet.eu/news/2009/11/03/50/ : In the 4th edition of the Novática Award for the best paper published by the journal in 2008, the jury has selected the article of Daniel Livingstone from the University of the West of Scotland and Jeremy Kemp from San José State University on “Integrando ...
  1 day ago

• [conf] Second Life Roundtable on Virtual Worlds and Nonprofits this Thursday, November 12

  
  Global Kids' Digital Media Initiative — Authority: 421
  This Thursday, November 12, Global Kids is hosting a Fall 09 Roundtable on Virtual Worlds and Nonprofits, from 12-1:30pm PST on MacArthur Island in Second Life ( teleport link ).   Representatives of five leading nonprofit organizations will give brief presentations on their initial explorations of Second Life ...
  1 day ago

• Leaked test feedback offers insights into Linden Lab design processes

  
  Massively — Authority: 680
  Back, just before Halloween, a Linden Lab staffer accidentally sent an email intended for internal circulation to a mailing list containing quite a number of Second Life users. We were sent a copy a few minutes later, and the email was widely circulated among developers of third-party Second Life viewers by ...
  1 day ago

• Modern Warfare 2: Blockbuster Multiplayer

  
  dailywireless.org — Authority: 527
  Modern Warfare 2 is universally expected to be the biggest video game of 2009, says Venture Beat . The game debuted tonight at midnight Eastern time as retailers around the country held midnight events. The game is part of the Call of Duty franchise but set in the context of modern anti-terrorist combat. ...
  1 day ago

• Racism in Virtual Worlds

  
  racismreview.com — Authority: 523
  Two social psychologists from Northwestern University conducted one of the first experimental field studies in a virtual, online world and found racial biases operate in much the same ways that they do in the material, offline world.   The study’s co-investigators are Northwestern’s Paul W. Eastwick, a ...
  1 day ago

• Is There Really Mass Confusion Around the Term of ‘Virtual World’?

  
  Virtual Speak — Authority: 119
  The recent 3DTLC conference brought together many virtual world enthusiasts to convene and re-think the future of virtual worlds. Among one of the more talked about topics at the conference was defining (or rather redefining) the term ‘virtual world,’ is it still the correct term to use or are there better terms ...
  1 day ago

• Dulce et Decorum Est (Virtually)

  
  RSC NewsFeed — Authority: 479
  The First World War Poetry Digital Archive and the Learning Technologies Group at Oxford University have collaborated on an exciting new project in the 3D virtual world Second Life to simulate areas of the Western Front 1914-18. The team believes this is the first time anything of its type has been done on Second ...
  1 day ago

• The Obligitary Wave Post – with added AR

  
  Learning Games — Authority: 409
  I’ve been spending a little time with Google Wave over the last week or so – nothing much, just very light puttering about. I think there are issues about persistance, vulnerability of public waves to vandalism (much more fragile than Wiki), and a general messiness as folk try and figure out how to actually use ...
  1 day ago

• This Week in OpenSim Dev - week ending Saturday 7th November 2009

  
  justincc.org — Authority: 112
  Hello everybody. This is a short summary of OpenSim development for the past week up until the end of last Saturday.  The letters in brackets after bug and feature points are the Git revision identifiers in which the work appears.  We only give the first 6 characters of each revision but this should be enough to ...
  2 days ago

• Sulake Is Going For The Adult Market With Bobba Bar. Beer Anyone?

  
  ArcticStartup — Authority: 557
  Sulake , the company behind the popular Habbo Hotel, a virtual world for teenagers with 14,600,000 montly unique visitors, has come out with a new service, Bobba Bar . Bobba Bar is virtual bar where, according to Sulake, you can meet and make friends. And it’s not just any virtual bar, it’s a virtual bar for ...
  2 days ago

• The Swerve is Real

  
  avocatio virtualis — Authority: 108
  Adam Smith was missing something from the whole picture. http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/article.php?id=1035 This is the swerve, the clinamen of Epicurus. This is what Louis Bachelier and Adam Smith didn’t know about motion. You cannot have one invisible hand bringing the market into equilibrium. You need TWO ...
  3 days ago

• Disruptive technology adoption is a uphill battle

  
  MixedRealities — Authority: 128
  I have my doubts about virtual worlds becoming mainstream anytime soon – mainstream as in being used on an almost daily basis by a majority of internet users. There are of course very neat demonstrations of how virtual environments can be used for demonstration and communication purposes. On SecondLifeUpdate.com I ...
  3 days ago

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