http://eightbar.co.uk/2007/05/27/tweakfest-architecture-of-the-metaverse-and-the-ibm-zurich-lab/ Raising The Eight Bar Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:45:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://eightbar.co.uk/2007/05/27/tweakfest-architecture-of-the-metaverse-and-the-ibm-zurich-lab/comment-page-1/#comment-100933 UgoTrade » Blog Archive » The Level Playing Field: From Web 2.0 to World 2.0 and Virtual Life Tue, 29 May 2007 14:35:27 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/2007/05/27/tweakfest-architecture-of-the-metaverse-and-the-ibm-zurich-lab/#comment-100933 [...] Many projects are still in the research stage. See Ian Hughes’s report on his visit to Tweakfest, and the IBM Zurich Lab, for some interesting examples of research into linking physical and virtual space. The work of Jeffrey Huang and his Swiss House project seemed particularly interesting to me. The aim here to connect swizz ex-pats with their home country and fellow swiss in other countries. This ‘house’ is in Cambridge, MA between Harvard and MIT. The aim is to create a physical space but have the presence and linkages to other spaces, not by one video conference screen but lots of types of walls, projections, virtual/real world tools. There are some pictures here of the sort of space created. [...]

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