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Train for Success is back with a great line-up of speakers for the fall!

robin.teigland — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:48:35 +0000

Train for Success is back with a new season of meetings. Marquee speakers from IBM, Chevron, CSC, U.S. Army, and Stanford University will share experiences from the frontiers of 3-D, virtual-world learning projects, and lead virtual field trips every Thursday at noon ET (9.00 am PT/18.00 CET). The first session is September 16, when a panel of industry deep-thinkers will reflect on the state of enterprise applications for virtual worlds in the wake of recent industry changes. So spiff up your avatar and meet Train for Success in Second Life. There will be a couple of sessions in Unity-based platforms as well, which is where an increasing number of our client projects take place. Train for Success is a free service, no registration needed. Train for Success has been involved in some very interesting projects helping clients apply disruptive learning technologies and creative game and story-telling approaches:

What is the future of virtual worlds? Interviews with some experts – part 3

serdar.temiz — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:05:54 +0000

Today is first day of the week and we continue our series of interviews with some virtual world experts filmed during the Roskilde Virtual Worlds Workshop in June for NVWN project.

What is the future of virtual worlds? Interviews with some experts – part 2

robin.teigland — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:17:51 +0000

Today we continue our series of interviews with some virtual world experts filmed during the Roskilde Virtual Worlds Workshop in June by Serdar Temiz of NVWN. Today please listen to 1) Thomas Kohler, Assistant Professor of Marketing at Hawaii Pacific University who studies the use of virtual worlds for open innovation/co-creation and 2) Carrilynn Reinhard, Post-Doc Researcher at Roskilde University who is interested in new approaches to media reception studies and dialogue communication studies, with a focus on the ways in with interactive digital media are or can be involved in either. Carrielynn is part of the Virtual Worlds Research Project at Roskilde University.

What is the future of virtual worlds? Interviews with some of the experts

robin.teigland — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 06:28:30 +0000

During the Roskilde Virtual Worlds Workshop in June, Serdar Temiz of NVWN interviewed more than 20 workshop participants about the future of virtual worlds. This post is the first of a series of posts in which you will find the videos of these interviews, and here you can see Edward Castranova and Claus Frisenberg Povlsen of Pop Art Lab providing their thoughts on virtual worlds.

Roskilde Virtual Worlds Workshop: Augmenting Reality in the Public Domain

robin.teigland — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 06:20:12 +0000

On Friday, October 1, 2010, the Roskilde VW Research Project will organize the workshop, Augmenting Reality in the Public Domain. Professor Gunnar Liestol from the Department of Media & Communication, University of Oslo will present his work on Situated Simulations, a new mobile augmented reality genre. The day will also cover governmental efforts to incorporate virtual worlds in tourism and education in Singapore, a discussion on the concept of engagement, and future plans for reconstructing aspects of the Sea Stallion Journey in an interactive experience platform.

New blog by John “Pathfinder” Lester

robin.teigland — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:50:39 +0000

Check out John “Pathfinder” Lester’s new blog, Be Cunning and Full of Tricks, in which he writes about strategies to help pioneers in virtual worlds and online communities. John recently gave a keynote at the Second Life Community Convention, and you can see the video here and his slides here.

Quality in VWs

Linda — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:57:51 +0000

CCP are soon launching an addition to their game EVE online and there are lots of people working on designing the clothing for that. This is all very hush-hush but there is a sample on Youtube of what they are doing, and this is the best I have seen so far in terms of rendering and design. I can almost tell what kind of fabric is in those garments. They are true to their aesthetics which is darkworld/goth but that is a style that for some reason works very well in virtual worlds.

Art Breaker Event on Sept 4 in SL by Pop Art Lab

robin.teigland — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:19:17 +0000

On September 4 (12:00 am to 12:00 pm SLT), Pop Art Lab will present the Art Breaker event in Second Life, the launch of an inter-reactive art/sound installation collab consisting of 4000 prims. The following artists have been selected (and have started rezz on specially designed platform at 3rd level in Pop Art sim):

Some information on virtual economies/virtual goods

robin.teigland — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:58:18 +0000

I was wondering whether there were other virtual world economies similar to Second Life and Entropia Universe/Planet Calypso where the VW platform provider supports the trading by individuals of their virtual currency for RL currency through the virtual world itself. So far I have not found any, but I did find that First Meta Exchange supports the trading of virtual currencies for USD and EUR for the VWs of Toribash, IMVU, Frenzoo, FriendsHangout, and SL. It was unclear as to how active this site is though; the latest news and announcement on FMX was from September 2009.

4th Annual Workshop on Learning and Research in Second Life

robin.teigland — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:35:41 +0000

Call for Participation and Proposals

4th Annual Workshop on Learning and Research in Second Life at Internet Research 11.0 Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden, Wednesday Oct 20, 2010 and in Second Life

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The 4th annual workshop on Learning and Research in Second Life aims to improve the understanding of Second Life as a Learning and Research environment by inviting researchers and educators to share experiences, discuss and develop research and education in and about Second Life and virtual worlds. This year the workshop invites discussion on the aspects of the main conference topics of sustainability, participation and action in addition to other current issues of research and education in Second Life. The workshop will consist of networking, group work and short keynote presentations.