Virtual Worlds

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• The trouble with goals in MMOs

  
  Massively — Authority: 686
  One of the major problems of a game in which you can do anything is that... well, theres not necessarily much of a reason to do anything. Thats a Terrible Idea recently had an interesting piece on the difficulty of generating goals and objectives in MMOs , especially in contrast with single-player games where ...
  14 hours ago

• The trouble with goals in MMOs

  
  Be The Gamer — Authority: 159
  Filed under: Culture , Game mechanics , Opinion , Academic , Virtual worlds One of the major problems of a game in which you can do anything is that... well, theres not necessarily much of a reason to do anything. Thats a Terrible Idea recently had an interesting piece on the difficulty of generating ...
  14 hours ago

• Integrating streams in virtual spaces

  
  MixedRealities — Authority: 130
  On Friday evening and Saturday I experimented a bit with Tumblr, a blogging platform somewhere between the long form blogs of let’s say Wordpress and the microblogging of status updates, tweets etc (I know some will say Twitter is not microblogging, but anyway, for some it is). Talking about all things Twitter, ...
  16 hours ago

• Inflammatory Speech and Bumpy Roads

  
  Dusan Writer's Metaverse — Authority: 507
  My mouth was inflammatory. Or my gums were flaming my sense of well-being. Whatever you want to call it, I ended up with half my face in a state of paralysis for a week or so, dribbling coffee on my keyboard and leaving a trail of food crumbs behind after every meal. And that was [...]
  20 hours ago

• Weekly Wrap: Parenting Backlash, Twitter Christmas, Google & OpenID, BBC BullyProof, Africa & Web 2.0, Xbox Live Gets Social, Virgin Mobile, Homeless Teens & Lady GaGa

  
  Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot — Authority: 421
  The Growing Backlash Against Overparenting By Nancy Gibbs">Backlash Against Helicopter Parents : The insanity crept up on us slowly; we just wanted what was best for our kids. We were so obsessed with our kids success that parenting turned into aform of product development. Parents demanded that nursery ...
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• The Return of the RCAF

  
  Aviatrix :: Zoe Connolly — Authority: 100
  Were excited again...We are energized and rebuilding... Cornelius Fanshaw built a new Officers Club in the WW2 Tradition for our exploits in the WW2 sims. This copy will also act as our meeting area 1000 meters above Lot 2 of the RCAF Connolly-Messmer Airpark in Caledon Penzance. Attention ...
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• Imprudence 1.2 viewer for Second Life

  
  Be The Gamer — Authority: 159
  Filed under: Patches , News items , Second Life , Mac , Linux , Virtual worlds The Imprudence project has released version 1.2 of their Second Life viewer. Imprudence is one of our favorite after-market Second Life viewers, and after some months in beta (and a couple of false starts), the latest ...
  2 days ago

• Imprudence 1.2 viewer for Second Life

  
  Massively — Authority: 686
  The Imprudence project has released version 1.2 of their Second Life viewer. Imprudence is one of our favorite after-market Second Life viewers, and after some months in beta (and a couple of false starts), the latest release version of this viewer is available. There are some user-interface changes this ...
  2 days ago

• How Virtual Reality can Help with Culture Shock

  
  APLINK - itsReal — Authority: 122
  Culture shock can strike expats unexpectedly when they move overseas for an assignment, particularly when they are expecting their new home country to be very similar to the one they left behind because of distance or language similarities. Culture shock can lead to homesickness, a lack of self-confidence, insomnia, ...
  3 days ago

• Brad Pitt (IRL) Interested in Second Life??

  
  Shopping Cart Disco — Authority: 134
  Or maybe it was just something made during a drinking session with the now-passed Timothy Guest. RIP. From the article on Guest’s death : Guest’s first novel, My Life in Orange, told of his upbringing in communes in England and India . He wrote for The Guardian and Telegraph Magazine and is hailed as a ...
  3 days ago

• twitter for ANY community

  
  APLINK - itsReal — Authority: 122
  If you haven’t heard of twitter – time to WAKE UP – it is a FREE communications tool for social & business communications. – if you have a twitter account leave your ID in a comment on this blog and I will follow YOU, as should all the people that visit this blogpost. Have a Twitter Conversation. ...
  3 days ago

• Virtual Romance

  
  MacDoctor — Authority: 502
  Ahhh, only the Japanese… Man marries virtual girlfriend In a bizarre story reminiscent of the film Lars and the Real Girl, the man, known by his nickname SAL9000, fell in love with a fictional character from the Nintendo DS “love simulator” Love Plus. Popular in Japan’s geek subculture, the game invites ...
  4 days ago

• OpenSim Hypergrid!

  
  Oh! Virtual Learning! — Authority: 112
  Okay, yall. I dont really get this yet? But I will. The analogy is that Ive cracked open this door. I see amazing things through the crack. And I so cant wait to share it that I turn around and run to the phone on my wall to call everyone I know. http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Hypergrid
  4 days ago

• 3D scanning with a plain webcam

  
  OllieBray.com — Authority: 128
  This is very impressive from the University of Cambridge and what I like about it is that it must be possible to export the 3D model that is created and then use this with some kind of augmented reality viewer such as Second Sight on the Sony PSP. If we were able to link these two bits of technology together ...
  4 days ago

• Wired-o-Nomics: Mad Men, Media, Marketing and a Fine Mess

  
  Epicenter — Authority: 725
  Suppose they gave a marketing campaign, and everybody came? Back in September, Hasbro launched Monopoly City Streets , a massive multiplayer online game that transforms Google Maps into a globalized version of the well-known board game. In the run-up to Christmas, the online game was supposed to promote a boxed ...
  4 days ago

• Second annual Linden Prize announced

  
  Be The Gamer — Authority: 159
  Linden Lab has announced that applications have opened for the 2010 Linden Prize , and submissions will be taken until 15 January 2010. The Linden Prize is awarded for Second Life projects that improve the way people work, learn and communicate in their daily lives outside of the virtual world. This annual award ...
  4 days ago

• Second annual Linden Prize announced

  
  Massively — Authority: 686
  Filed under: Contests , Culture , News items , Second Life , Virtual worlds Linden Lab has announced that applications have opened for the 2010 Linden Prize , and submissions will be taken until 15 January 2010. The Linden Prize is awarded for Second Life projects that improve the way people work, ...
  4 days ago

• The Latest in Simulation in the Military

  
  Workplace Learning Today by Brandon Hall Research — Authority: 481
  The Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) is Nov 30-Dec 3 in Orlando. It’s fascinating to see the kinds of things they’re working on. Here’s a video: (TW) Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC)
  5 days ago

• Universal Platforms for Virtual Goods and Social Currency

  
  bmf sticky — Authority: 121
  Thanks Mobile Behaviour for this on Viximos interesting offering for virtual economies Social currency and virtual goods have kept online gamers locked in their basements for years. Then Facebook introduced us to the virtual gift, and digital birthday cakes became badges of honor. Now game dynamics ...
  5 days ago

• From China With Love

  
  CIO - Blogs and Discussion - — Authority: 148
  At this moment perhaps two countries epitomize the yin and the yang of world culture – China and the United States. read more
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