Archive for January, 2007

More tennis in Second Life - Australian Open

Friday, January 12th, 2007

If you’ve been reading eightbar for a while, you may know that last year, some of the group put together a nice demo for Wimbledon (video available). The build was a proof-of-concept for taking a live feed of the balls from the Hawkeye system, and replaying the action in-world.
Well, the news is out on the Sydney [...]

BBC newsnight gets deeper into our virtual personas

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

Paul Mason of the BBC has done a great piece on how our virtual presence may be changing society.

Sears on IBM islands

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

IBM has built another customer virtual world experience for Sears

Open Source Second Life client announced

Monday, January 8th, 2007

SL client Open Sourced today. Hurrah.

libSL and The Sheep

Monday, January 8th, 2007

I mentioned on my personal blog recently that I’d been looking at the capabilities of libsecondlife, and thinking about the possibilities of automating certain administrative tasks without having to fire up the full Second Life client.
It seems that the guys from the Electric Sheep Company have been doing some really interesting stuff with libsecondlife. If [...]

New Year virtual life real life crossover

Thursday, January 4th, 2007

Judge hocho has created a real version of the eightbar tshirt