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Visit to Virtual Worlds Research Project – Roskilde Univ, Denmark

On Nov 22-23 Björn-Tore of NVWN and I spent two days with the Virtual Worlds Research Project, of which Sisse Siggaard Jensen and Lisbeth Frölunde of NVWN are also members.  The Virtual Worlds Research Project’s focus is SENSE-MAKING STRATEGIES AND USER-DRIVEN INNOVATION IN VIRTUAL WORLDS and is a collaborative project running from 2008-2011, which joins [...]

Notes from AoIR 11 Workshop on Research and Learning in Second Life (Part 2)

This is the second post from my notes taken at the AoIR Workshop. The first post is here. During the afternoon, the participants in both RL and LS were asked to provide their favorite places in SL. Research Island Denmark (9,9,26). Metrotopia, the city of Superheroes & heroines, is a virtual laboratory built by Roskilde [...]

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 [...]

Roskilde Virtual Worlds Workshop: Augmenting Reality in the Public Domain

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 [...]

June 8 – Metanomics Mixed Reality Broadcast on New Market Dynamics

On Tuesday, June 8th at 11am SLT (8 pm CET) Metanomics will host a mixed-reality conference on New Market Dynamics from Denmark. Host Robert Bloomfield will lead a Second Life panel including Robin Teigland of NVWN, Edward Castronova, and Tom Boellstorff as they discuss the purchase of virtual islands, leasing of towns, recruiting avatar employees [...]

Join the discussion “What is a virtual world?”

In preparation for a group activity at the ‘Making Sense of Virtual Worlds and User Driven Innovation’ Workship, June 7th-9th 2010, at Magleaas Denmark held by Roskilde University (an NVWN Project Partner), there is an online discussion about what a virtual world is. Please feel free to join the discussion even if you do not [...]