I am back safe and sound from Virtual Worlds 2007. The main thing I can say is how fantastic (personally) the entire conference was. One way and another I missed almost all the sessions but 3pointd has them very well covered, start here and work forward.
I was very proud to have not only a IBM [...]

A fair few of the IBM emerging business unit for digital convergence and 3d internet are going to be at Virtual Worlds 2007 as of tomorrow.
I am also here now and we had a great get together meeting today.
So tomorrow will be some time on the IBM stand meeting and greeting, some press, some meeting [...]

If you’re anything like me, tables of numbers are hard to grasp. If a picture is woth a thousand words, it’s probably worth a million spreadsheets. (I’ve always thought the only good spreadsheet is one with a graph on every page.) I was therefore delighted when, following the release of some detailed Second Life stats [...]

Our collegue WadaTripp has created a very good mashup of presentation and machinima entitled Virtual Worlds and the Future of Learning.
Its 10 minutes long and shows some perspectives and interesting concepts that are happening inside places like Second Life.
Well worth a look as a serious(ish) exploration of metaverse concepts.

His blog is over here

I had a chance today to try the Second Life voice beta.
The demo requires a separate download, and only certain sims on the beta test grid are currently voice-enabled. I know that Spaceport Alpha and NMC and enabled. Apparently Abbotts, Lusk and Pulveria, are also voice-ready too. I’m sure the list will grow quickly.
When you speak [...]

Rating objects with a clever HUD overlay that detects what you can see and where it is.

timeframe, timestamp your real and second life

Friday saw one of the large theatres on the IBM island complex play host to the award ceremony for the GreaterIBM Connection’s Machinimania challenge. For the past few months, several teams have been honing their virtual filming skills to capture some cool in-world videos.
(click through the thumbnails for larger images)

The invitation suggested a dress code [...]

Whilst doing a long 2 hour customer demo I happened to be flying around the IBM islands. You may think that I must know everything that is going on but the joy of discovery still pervades the metaverse with so much happening.
I noticed Timeless “multigadget” Prototype’s excellent London Eye build on IBM 3. Its well [...]

Red nose charity in Second Life