On May 18th, the Danish film My Avatar and Me will be shown at a “DOX:BIO EXTRA” event at Grand Theatre in Copenhagen and a few other selected theatres in Denmark. The film will be followed by Q&A with special guests. The film will have a simultaneous showing inside Second Life. The Q & A [...]
Below are some of the responses to a question on presentation/slideshow boards for use in Second Life that I posted to the SLED list. We were looking for some advice on which presentation boards to use for a conference. (I have taken the liberty to edit the responses a bit – hope that’s ok!) From [...]
Pop Art Lab is organizing three exciting events during the next several months and would like to draw attention to these events. Pop Art Lab is also looking for sponsors for these events. Below is information from Pop Art Lab on these events and sponsorship. For Artists Art Breaker II, an exciting collaboration aimed to [...]
One of the very few articles I have seen and read about the use of virtual worlds technologies by entrepreneurs appeared in BusinessWeek’s SmallBiz magazine in August/September 2008. The article was entitled “First Stop: Second Life,” with the following subtitle: “Whether they’re designing eco-homes or a new mass transit system, entrepreneurs are finding virtual worlds [...]
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 [...]
From the Virtual World Watch blog: “Second Life remains the virtual world ‘of choice’ for UK academics who responded to the survey. However, also as with previous snapshots, other virtual worlds are in use, such as OLIVE at Coventry University for emergency planning, and OpenSim at Leeds for handling large numbers of art and design [...]
IMVU continues to grow in users and revenues. Check out this article by Virtual World News on IMVU and its recent hiring of SL veteran David Fleck as VP marketing.
From the Second Life Blogs: The Second Life economy kicked off 2010 with strength in many key indicators in Q1. User-to-User Transactions totaled US$160 million, a 30% increase year-to-year and an all-time high Total Sales on Xstreet reached US$2.3 million, an 82% increase year-to-year and a 24% increase over the previous quarter Total L$ exchanged [...]
Here are the slides from my talk on virtual worlds at TEDx, organized by SSE4M: TEDx-Real value through VWs-Teigland View more presentations from Robin Teigland. And here is a link to a write-up on the talk by Chrissy Phoong and Dilly Dally Knowledge.
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