Archive for October, 2006

Its Halloween so it would be mad not to have a party

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

We had a party to celebrate halloween. A little get together, some mad costumes and also some lessons in how to build for our newer members

Weather Visualization in Second Life

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

Aimee Weber and NOAA bring a real weather map to Second Life. Real data visualization

The Metaverse, Second Life and 3d Printers/home fabrication

Saturday, October 28th, 2006

Home fabrication, 3d printers, Second Life its happening already and will only get bigger.

Television comes to Second Life

Friday, October 27th, 2006

Both the Electric Sheep Company and Rivers Run Red have made interesting noises about TV in Second Life recently.
The Sheep have an interesting project at the moment called Destroy Television (more details on 3pointD). I managed to get my moment of fame by making a banner and hanging around in front of the cameraperson [...]

Wimbledon Second Life demo on YouTube

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

A quick tour of part of the Wimbledon demo on YouTube

Tired and croaky: busy day yesterday

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

I’m tired and slightly croaky after a long day yesterday. As Andy already pointed out, much of it centered around NMK’s My So Called 2nd Life conference at 01Zero-One, right in the middle of Soho.

Once it got underway, the speakers were:

MMOs: where are they now, and where are they heading? - Michael SmithMichael (the CEO [...]

IBM hits Reuters in Second Life

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

Looks like Roo’s talk today went down well.

Planes, trains and automobiles, here come Nissan

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

Nissan enters the wonderful world of the metaverse

Ben Folds in Second Life the Event

Friday, October 20th, 2006

A few pictures and comments on the hilarious Ben Folds gig last night

Component Templates

Friday, October 20th, 2006

From January to May this year I was working as part of an incubator group to develop a technology called, Component Templates.

Component Templates are a way for a subject matter expert to develop a template that will let a less-knowledgeable user customise and configure an asset. The neat thing is that no [...]