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• Imprudence 1.2 viewer for Second Life

  
  Be The Gamer — Authority: 160
  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 ...
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• Imprudence 1.2 viewer for Second Life

  
  Massively — Authority: 682
  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 ...
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• 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, ...
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• 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 ...
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• 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. ...
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• Virtual Romance

  
  MacDoctor — Authority: 521
  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 ...
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• OpenSim Hypergrid!

  
  Oh! Virtual Learning! — Authority: 110
  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
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• 3D scanning with a plain webcam

  
  OllieBray.com — Authority: 126
  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 ...
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• Wired-o-Nomics: Mad Men, Media, Marketing and a Fine Mess

  
  Epicenter — Authority: 737
  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 ...
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• Second annual Linden Prize announced

  
  Be The Gamer — Authority: 160
  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 ...
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• Second annual Linden Prize announced

  
  Massively — Authority: 682
  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, ...
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• The Latest in Simulation in the Military

  
  Workplace Learning Today by Brandon Hall Research — Authority: 482
  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)
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• 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 ...
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• 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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• Internet Safety: Media Literacy Tips From Industry Insiders Pt 1

  
  Shaping Youth — Authority: 123
  Nov. 24, 2009 As fall weather kicks in and families hunker indoors to ‘more screen time’ than summer time norms, I hear tales of media management missteps that would spin heads faster than a Linda Blair Exorcist antic. (yes I know it’s almost Thanksgiving, but I’m still seguing from Halloween here…) I ...
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• Next Island to launch sci-fi adventure virtual world — with time travel

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 155
  Next Island is the latest company to launch an ambitious virtual world. But this sci-fi adventure paradise comes with an interesting twist: time travel. The company is announcing today that it is building a world in MindArk’s massively multiplayer online virtual universe, Entropia Universe.That means it has licensed ...
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• Next Island to launch a sci-fi adventure virtual world — with time travel

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 155
  Next Island is the latest company to launch an ambitious virtual world. But this sci-fi adventure paradise comes with an interesting twist: time travel. The company is announcing today that it is building a world in the Entropia Universe.That means it has licensed virtual world technology from MindArk, whose ...
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• This Week in OpenSim Dev - week ending Saturday 21st November 2009

  
  justincc.org — Authority: 110
  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 ...
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• Hallmark, Abandon Partner for Freaky Pets

  
  Virtual Worlds News — Authority: 465
  Abandon Interactive Entertainment today said it had entered into an exclusive deal with Hallmark Gold Crown stores to distribute its new Freaky Pets plush doll starting in 2010. Targeting children ages four and up, Freaky Pets is a line of reversible plush toys with a web browser-based 3D virtual world tie-in. The ...
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• Building MMO landscape scenes

  
  Be The Gamer — Authority: 160
  Landscapes have been a staple component of almost every MMO in recent memory. With the exception of some sci-fi titles , most MMOs take place on the land of some imagined island or continent. Some use stylised fantasy landscapes that run smoothly on even low-end computers while others have managed almost ...
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