Archive for April, 2007

Yet more buzz on the whole Mainframe and virtual worlds announcements

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

My home email received its regular update from gamespy daily today. I normally only read the headlines as with all the magazines and other content I feel fairly well informed, and as a gamer I just get on and play things.
However, today I clicked through to the PlanetFargo blog to see what they were saying [...]

Gartner predictions on the metaverse

Friday, April 27th, 2007

Gartner and the future of the metaverse.

Are you Sheep Electric?

Friday, April 27th, 2007

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Are you sheep electric?, originally uploaded by epredator.
Epredator bumps into some sheep? But are they electric?More real life/virtual life crossover
I did post this on my individual blog too, but it was a sudden idea with [...]

More worlds colliding ustream twitter and Second Life

Friday, April 27th, 2007

This morning I have on one screen Eric Rice’s ustream broadcast from within Second Life. In another window Twitter, which is what caused me to click, and I am also in Second Life.
All the channels are feeding me perspectives. I can hear Spin talking, see where is going, but also join in on some Sim’s [...]

Lifelogging from Hursley

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

I decided to do a bit of epredator.tv. :-)

It was all flimed and edited on the n95 phone. Not aiming for hollywood :-)

Cell processors powering a virtual world

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

As many of you will have already seen over on 3pointd here and here IBM is working with Hoplon on using high end mainframe machines powered by cell processors.
I am sure there may be a little bit of confusion when people hear Cell, and make the association to the cell powered Sony PS3, and also [...]

Formula 1 - A step closer

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

I am a big fan of formula 1 and any vehicle racing in general. So it was very interesting to see the ING/Renault announcement as blogged on 3pointd
It also coincided with this news article popping up on the work feeds about Honda F1 working with IBM
And keeping the coefficient of coincidence high [...]

ITE expo on Silicon City

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

The International Technology Expo in Second Life

Another cool advert with virtual world overtones

Friday, April 20th, 2007

This is very well done, thanks eightbar member Baruch Barrymore for passing this one to us. Its subtle, may be a real add, but may not. Who cares its funny.

Exploring across the metaverses - User experience? Its not just buttons anymore

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

User experience in a metaverse is as much about the first interactions you have with residents as it is with the content and mechanics of the world.