Archive for April, 2007

eightbar hits jyte, making claims

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

Roo has been getting us all into jyte. A way to make claims, ideas etc and vote and comment on them whilst applying reputation and credibility to things. So as something a bit more than “Second Life is …..” i thought I would try this and see where jyte gets us. “Whilst people may be [...]

RL brands in SL – study

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

Market Truths Ltd released the third of their reports on Second Life this month, entitled Real Life Brands in Second Life (Q1 2007). The study will be interesting to anyone weighing up what effect Second Life can have on a brand. Some might argue that the sample size could have done with being a little larger, but even [...]

An SL motorbike powered by twitter

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

One way and another I ended up watching my twitter feeds tonight and caught a twitter from Rueben at millionsofus saying “reubstock Opening up a new project with Intel and the guys from American Chopper.. come on in and spread the word. http://tinyurl.com/yojogx” The grid was misbehaving so it took a few jumps to get [...]

Ballet in Second Life, live perfomance another key use of the metaverse

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

Over on the IBM islands Jessica Qin pointed out that we now have the Second Life Ballet. Now demographically you would not expect to see epredator at a ballet. However, I am looking forward to seeing a performance. We have all been talking about how the metaverse is about people, and people connecting. It is [...]

Dassault Systems TV Ad

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

Whilst over in the US of A I cuaght the advert for Dassault entitled “I see what you mean” check out the TV commercial button. This is CGI stuck into an advert but as a vision of how augmented reality could work its a nice piece of work

3pointd is 1 year old too, future predictions for the metaverse?

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

3pointd is 1 years old, predictions for the future and my comments.