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Future of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Virtual Worlds

One of NVWN’s project activities was to produce a report on the future of innovation and entrepreneurship in virtual worlds and the 3D internet for the co-financier, Nordic Innovation. The report’s primary author is NVWN member: Eilif Trondsen, who is the Director of Learning, Innovation and Virtual Technologies at Strategic Business Insights in Silicon Valley. [...]

What do students think about Virtual Worlds? Some reflections….

During Jan/Feb 2011, I taught a strategy module in the Media Management course for Masters students at the Stockholm School of Economics and the Royal Institute of Technology. The 65 students came from the US, Europe, and Asia, and the majority were in their mid to late 20s. In addition to presenting strategy frameworks and [...]

WebGL Camp at SRI International–and future of virtual environments

As I have noted in earlier NVWN blog posts, my vision for 3D immersive environments is that they will be enabled by commonly-used browsers, without need for plug-ins, and no need for downloading proprietary (and typically large) clients. Such downloads, and especially if they also involve a relatively steep learning curve (to enable navigation and [...]

More Musings on Future of Virtual Environments

First, an apology and a warning! This posting is a bit longer than the average blog posting. Sorry about that. In the last 4-5 weeks I have spoken at some virtual world events and have also been an attendee at a number of other events that have explored various issues around the future of virtual [...]

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

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 [...]