The next big virtual worlds conference is looming large. Virtual Worlds Fall in San Jose on 11/12 October. IBM is a gold sponsor and there will be a lot of the extended eightbar team at the conference. Sandy Kearney has a keynote: Virtual Worlds: The BEST platforms for Enterprise Value An Examination of Virtual World [...]

Many of us have just been at a virtual world presentation by Sandra Kearney, Director of IBM’s 3d internet group and very much a founding member of eightbar and the virtual universe community. I am going to pull some of the content together to show what this actually looked like but…. We have Sandy in [...]

Back in July I shared Robbie Dingo’s beautiful ‘Watch the World(s)’ machinima. Today I was equally blown away by some of AM Radio’s amazing creations, captured as a video by Aeron Copeland.  Both are Eightbar members and long-time explorers and builders in Second Life.   There’s not much I can add to that, other than [...]

Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream have a great new build in Second Life. I only just got to visit it. It just goes to show that, as has been found with going cell shaded in games, photo realism is not everything. It is of course good to have both cartoon and photo real options, but [...]

It would be wrong to have ignored talk like a pirate day with a wonderful pun like “pieces of eightbar” just asking to be used. We get everywhere dont we Avast ye virtual land lubbers etc….

Whilst Roo was off at the serious virtual worlds conference I was of in the Netherlands and Belgium presenting too on the inspiration for innovators tour.   It was great to not only present a fair few times to invited audiences of customers, IBMers and press in elective sessions, but to also get to meet some fellow activists out there in [...]

Back from a couple of days at the Serious Virtual Worlds conference in Coventry. The speakers and their topics were: Thursday 13th September David Wortley, Serious Games Institute – introduction Christian Renaud, Cisco – Getting serious about virtual worlds Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO Giunti Labs, chair European Learning Industries – Innovating learning in a flat, virtual [...]

I recently discovered that Comedy Central’s video clips can be embedded. This is a great chance to remember (or discover) the Warcraft Southpark episode, now nearly a year old. I am socialising, artard! I’m logged on to an MMORPG with people from all over the world and getting XP with my party using TeamSpeak.

I could not help moving eightbar into yet another virtual environment. In this case Forza2 on the xbox 360. Forza has a great custom paint application built in. You cant just upload images, you have to craft from clip art. I am by no means an expert, but I was quite happy with me representing [...]

I turned 40 this weekend as part of the celebrations this rather excellent creation was made by a local shop. Its not as “serious” as many of the virtual to real movements but it seemed worth sharing with everyone. Just for completeness the thread of these is explained here and here