Archive for March, 2007

Mashing up Kaneva

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

One way and another epredator in Kaneva managed to get on the early beta so I have been wandering around the new virtual environment. Or as has been pointed out myspace with 3d.
I am sure that this will get a lot of press and be very popular, but as 3pointd points out, it is another [...]

Second Life temporarily closed to new members [Update: not so much]

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Second Life recently closed the new registration signup process.
Sorry, we’re currently jam-packed
To ensure the best possible experience for all of our Residents, we are temporarily limiting new account registrations. There’s been a huge influx of new Residents into Second Life and we are working hard to keep up with the demand.
Please check back [...]

Does it matter where something is?

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

Does where and what was used to create something really matter as long as its easy and does what we want?

SXSW eightbar nearly there for business models in virtual worlds

Saturday, March 10th, 2007

Epredator Potato nearly managed to get (virtually) to a fellow Eightbar affiliate members sessions at the sxsw conference. The electric sheep were screen burning it into Second Life but a slight time calculation problem meant I missed the session.
I wanted to be there as my ex Wimbledon Collegue John Ascent Stage Tolva was chairing a [...]

PlayStation Home and LittleBigPlanet - Sony keynote at GDC introduces ‘Game 3.0′

Friday, March 9th, 2007

I know I’m not the first blogger to mention this (even on Eightbar I’ve been beaten. Twice. ) but… Sony’s keynote at the Games Developer Conference was pretty fascinating.
Opening by putting the future of the games industry in the context of Web 2.0,  Sony introduced us to a new Noun X.0, ‘Game 3.0′. Apparently, [...]

PS3 Virtual world unveiled and Lego too

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

A free high end looking virtual world is unveiled as part of the PS3 platform

Sony PS3 Virtual World

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

OK I’m pulling this straight from 3pointD, but this could be a biggee. Sony showed this video at the Game Developers Conference, a PS3 based virtual world using the latest physics and graphics engines.
“Home” looks stunning and technology rich with VOIP, photo, music and video sharing, the user created content aspects may not be there [...]

House of Horizons grand opening, Danish band Carpark North rocks the crowd

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

Hosted on IBM 2, the House of Horizons project is a partnership between IBM, Computerworld Denmark and a Danish firm called Innovation Lab. Each of the companies involved has a sphere in a floating bubbleplex, with other shared meeting areas too. The architecture was designed by real-world architectural firm Arkitema and built by Aimee Weber and her [...]

Giving Machinima a go

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

My previous Youtube post of Wimbledon was done on my old machine that needed a video camera of the screen. I have a new machine now, so I was experimenting