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Despite such locative mash-ups are facilitated by SecondLife permissive and open-minded access policy over user data (public API), we should not conclude that such kind of services could just not be realized for other virtual worlds. Cartography has been a well established activity among several generations of virtual worlds users.
When non provided […]
Last week we (MYRL) attended the X Media Lab in London; it was the first one here and it was focused on Virtual Worlds. We had a great time, met very interesting people, got valuable advice and smart insights about our project and found new business partners. In one sentence it has been absolutely amazing […]
Rather than claiming the necessity of avatar portability, I think we should look at more humble but still ambitious and unsolved problem: the definition of a common language for mapping virtual spaces and universally referencing places and objects located within them. In other terms: How could I pretend to teleport my avatar and its entire inventory of scripted objects from one world to an other, if, at date, I can’t neither reference places or objects across worlds?
Next Wed the 24th is going to be metarati party time in London from 5.30 pm till late. Chris Sherman offers the first round at O’Neill’s Irish Pub for the Virtual Worlds News party (5.30 pm - 7.30 pm) and we host the 3rd London Virtual Worlds Meet Up at T-Bar in Shoreditch (7.00 pm […]
http://www.kzero.co.uk/blog/?p=1355
Next week London is gonna be all about virtual worlds. Starting with the Virtual Worlds Forum, going on with the Virtual Worlds Meet Up and closing with this amazing workshop organized by X|Media|Lab.
“The one-day X|Media|Lab - www.xmedialab.com - is your chance to explore your own “Virtual Worlds†business plans, creative ideas, and technology developments - […]
“The road to Interoperability is going to be bumpy. But ultimately, totally necessary for the widespread adoption and second phase of virtual worlds. This series of posts is going to fully explore the marketing implications of Interoperability…” Read on at KZero Blog
IBM and Second Life partner to innovate into 5 areas of virtual worlds technology: Universal Avatars, Security-rich transactions, Platform Stability, Integration with exhisting web and business processes, Open standards for interoperability with the current web…
(from IBM Press room…)
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Linden Lab®, creator of the virtual world Second Life® (www.secondlife.com), today announced the intent […]
Dear worlds-hoppers, as promised we are trying to make the Virtual Worlds Meet Ups even more unmissable
This time the team of ‘There.com’ is in town from NYC and will present what’s cool and new in There.com and what will be the next steps.
Betsy Book, Director of Product Management, and Ben Richardson, VP […]
The bar for online gaming has been raised, with community becoming as important as gameplay. Virtual worlds and Web 2.0 habits are driving users to worlds that support socializing instead of questing and user-created content instead of magic. World of Warcraft may have nine million subscribers, but Habbo Hotel has 7.5 million users per month, […]
