Rob Smart, IBM: ‘Web 2.0 to OpenSim Made Easy’ (1)
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Web 2.0 surpasses all previous technologies in its ability to “explicitly leverage network effects” (a definition of Web 2.0 from Tim O’Reilly). But, while virtual worlds pass another classic litmus test of Web 2.0 - two way participation, they have been, up to this point, largely cut off from Web 2.0 power/network effects. Persistent immersive virtual worlds, led by Second Life, have done well as niche markets but they remain relatively isolated from Web 2.0, ...
ExitReality (1)
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ExitReality launched in open beta today and there is coverage in a few places. Virtual Worlds News has detailed coverage with lots of interview questions, while CNet has a slightly more critical article. What does it do? It automatically grabs web content and sticks it into a 3d space. You can shape the 3d space if you want, but it does it by default — no work for the site owner. It also slurps 3d ...
AGDC: Bruce Sterling keynote (6)
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Again, sorry for typos. Bruce Sterling, Future of Entertainment Hello, thanks for having me into your event today, and thanks for that intro. Though there is a problem with that, I am not Bruce Sterling. He couldn’t make it, he sent me instead. The reason he couldn’t make it is that in 2043, Bruce is 89. Dr. Sterling is too frail to get into a time machine to talk to game devs, so he called ...
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ChristopherA said:
Great post from 2043 on the future of entertainment.
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TrevorFSmith said:
"And in 35 years you are almost that kind of stupid. No quite, because you have Google, but in that ballpark."
Interview with Mic Bowman, Intel: The Future of Virtual Worlds (1)
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Intel obviously benefits from broad adoption of applications that drive significant compute so it is hardly surprising that they had been paying attention to the early adopters of the Gaming & Visual Computing market. But, in a recent post the Intel blog states, “going forward the bigger growth will be coming from the other two segments Metaverse and Paraverse (for more on the future of the paraverse see the recording of the Augmented reality panel ...
Virtual worlds in the ambient cloud (2)
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The Web is moving towards a user-centric experience. Whereas a few years ago, it was all about visiting destination sites, now it is about destination sites spitting out data that comes to you, via RSS. The attraction of things like Twitter or Facebook lies in the ambient information that flows out and about, and in your largely asynchronous, largely placeless, largely shallow updates on what your friends are doing. You come to know them deeply ...
神々の「Web3.0」 (Kobunsha Paperbacks 125) - 小林雅一（著） - 光文社 (1)
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本書「Web2.0」の次に来る「Web3.0」を「人間関係の解析とカスタマイズ世界」と定義し、携帯サービスやブログ、SNS、動画共有サイト、仮想世界など20種類以上もの各種次世代サービスを取り上げ、読み解く本。付録として巻末に「Web2.0」という言葉を生み出した張本人であるティム・オライリー氏のロングインタビューが掲載されているのも見逃せない。 「Web1.0」はブロードキャスト（放送）型で、大量の情報を一方的に送り出す形だった。それが「Web2.0」ではインターネットに接続した多数の一般ユーザーが多種多様な情報やコンテンツを持ち寄る「集合知」となった。それでは、次に来る「Web3.0」は何か？それは”自分で作る”「カスタマイズ世界」であると本書は答えを出している。 多くのサービスを取材しているので仮想世界について述べられているのは305P～350Pとわずか一部分だが、セカンドライフの登録者数の変遷からGoogleのLively、facebook上で動くVIVATY、さらに子供向けの2D仮想空間サービスやmeet-meなど日本国内で展開しているを3D仮想世界までを広く取り上げ、ここ1年程の仮想世界業界の動きを全て追える濃い内容となっている。特に文中に多く登場するティーンエイジャー向け仮想空間を運営する「Gaia Online」のCEOクレイグ・シャーマン氏のインタビューは示唆に富んでいて興味深い。ちなみに当サイトの編集長である箱田も取材協力させて頂いたので、こちらも合わせてご覧頂きたい。 この商品をAmazonで購入する
Meet the Rising Stars of the Open Metaverse at Virtual Worlds 2008, LA (1)
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OpenSim developers will be explaining OpenSim to Virtual Worlds Conference and Expo,LA, 2008, attendees from a “very-spacious booth being sponsored by DeepThink, Genkii, RealXtend, SineWave and ISID.” The booth will be an important place to meet some of the key innovators in virtual worlds. While OpenSim is still alpha there are already some pretty advanced projects on the OpenSim platform including some truly game changing innovation from realXtend, and Tribal Media (more on RealXtend here ...
Your avatar is a pervert and your kid may be too (2)
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So apparently Second Life really is all about sex, drugs, violence and all sorts of other deviant behavior, according to an expose that NBC ran last night. The gist of the report is that parents need to keep their kids away from the virtual world or run the risk of having those kids grow up to be first life miscreants as well. Never mind that SL requires the same level of age verification as most ...
Why Virtual Worlds don't work....yet (part 1) (1)
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Two years ago I jumped enthusiastically into the Metaverse, with Second Life booming and media were eager to cover every company entering this particular Virtual World. The past year we've discovered -too the disappointment of many - that we were living the Gartner Hypecycle curve. At the close of 2007 I've pondered what was going on and what the challenges for 2008 would be. Due to family circumstances I've stepped back from the Metaverse for ...
Managing a Large Virtual Event « The Immersive Life (2)
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Recently, I assisted some of my Second Life contacts in preparing and running PeaceFest 08, their multi-location fundraising event. Along with developing a LSL script for distributing the event schedule and calendar, I helped greet people and manage security at the main event sim location. The following are suggestions (based on my observations of what worked and what needed improvement) for anyone planning a multi-location event in Second Life (focused on text chat only without ...
40 virtuele werelden in 7 minuten (1)
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Een aardige tour door het Metaverse, op Personalize Media. In zeven minuten ben je weer helemaal bij.Zie eventueel ook:Het Metaverse, de toekomst van virtuele wereldenBevrijd de Avatars!Van Metaverse naar MultiverseWeblin: het web als virtuele wereld@
Gartner says VWs in Trough (2)
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Virtual Worlds News points to the latest Gartner report, which shows virtual worlds (primarily from an enterprise adoption point of view, maybe?) as being on the trough of disillusionment, but going mainstream in 2 to 5 years or so. I wonder where Gartner would put the gaming worlds?
Xenki: An “In Your Browser Viewer” for OpenSim and Second life (7)
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The story of Xenki, an in your browser viewer for OpenSim and Second Life (you can download the source on Forge.OpenSimulator), began with a stream of tweets from Dr_Manhattan (Kyle Gomboy, avatar G2 Proto) - power house of the Microsoft Developer Community in OpenSim (see Project Manhattan), and Second Life (see here) - announcing the merging of DirectX and WPF in the .NET 3.51 SP1 release. I was not the only one to notice these ...
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dani said:
And the story goes on. It's dejavu all over again, people building viewers for virtual words - just like the times people were doing that for the real world - when internet was young. History repeats itself and I'm as enthusiastic about it as I can be :P
Repost: Future of the Net & Anthropology of YouTube (1)
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If you haven’t yet seen these videos or haven’t made the time, do it. Kevin Kelly: Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web Another excellent TED Talk, I continue to be a huge fan. An anthropological introduction to YouTube From Mike Wesch, author of another internet-famous video, The Machine is Us/ing Us. I mentioned this presentation a month or so ago and the video was finally posted last week. It was presented to the ...
Educators: CCK08 - Connectivism & Connective Knowledge Course (2)
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In about a month, the Connectivism & Connective Knowledge Course will begin. From the course wiki: Connectivism and Connective Knowledge is a twelve week course that will explore the concepts of connectivism and connective knowledge and explore their application as a framework for theories of teaching and learning. It will outline a connectivist understanding of educational systems of the future. George Siemens and Stephen Downes – the two leading figures on connectivism and connective knowledge ...
Here come Virtual World Intranets… Seriously (1)
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Online worlds on the Internet? That’s so last month ago. Judging by recent initiatives from Sun and IBM, the latest trend is a corporate-controlled, business-centric virtual world architected for internal use only– call it the intranet metaverse. In Sun’s case, it’s MPK20, a “a virtual 3D environment in which employees can accomplish their real work, share documents, and meet with colleagues using natural voice communication.” The idea is to bring remote workers in Sun’s worldwide ...
Realizing the Potential of Virtual Worlds: Why and How to Support OpenSim (3)
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Are you one of those people who need something more to get you excited about the future of virtual worlds than, “I am in ur browser, chatting in 3D?” Well, perhaps, it is time for you to take a close look at the burgeoning open source ecosystem surrounding OpenSIm. Jonas Karlsson, Xerox, (avatar Poinky Malaprop) wrote an excellent post (I quote his great title above!) explaining why he is not turned on by the big ...
