Do you remember seeing this image and post back in october 2006 Well now there is more as this has advanced a great deal and Turner and a team have been working to get more data, more understanding and to dynamically build metaverse versions of system architecture representations. This time its video, and its a [...]

Real money, minted for a Second Life island.

The world is positively abuzz this morning with news of guidelines being released by IBM as a code of conduct for IBMers in virtual worlds. Lots of news sources (including TIME, USATODAY, the Examiner, the San Jose Mercury News and more) are carrying an Associated Press story talking about the guidelines. Since nobody seems to be linking to the [...]

I’ve been wanting to post something about art in virtual worlds for a while. Yesterday, my friend Kybernetikos posted some thoughtful observations about the limitations of virtual worlds, which included these two sentences about art: Art is always looking for new mediums to express itself in, and with a virtual world, it has an old [...]

Psssst! Ian’s away on holiday and I can’t see Roo, so I’m going to hijack eightbar and write about something none virtual worlds related. There’s a competition running inside IBM at the moment, it’s to develop a situational application (mashup) using some of the data feeds available on our Intranet. Lots of people here listen [...]

London, Tuesday 23rd to Friday 26th October. 3pointD already has the press release, so I won’t bother reproducing the speaker list or even the programme; you can just as easily get them from the conference website. The speaker list is a star-studded list of dozens of thought virtual world thought leaders. Ren Reynolds (no relation) will be [...]

8.5 million users for the wimbledon.org website this year, 2007

Well the event is nearly over, a mammoth 2 weeks in one place in Second Life on IBM 7 for Wimbledon Slawn tennis (props to veejay for the slawn word ) It made sense to capture the build in video, though it will be foreever burned in my memory. We have had approximately 200 visitors [...]

DRM free clothing, from our guest author

We have now finished (as much as a constant build in Second Life ever is) the behind the scenes tour to go with the live court of on IBM 7. The build is at the top of this picture and is set up in the air for views over the rest of IBM land. On [...]