I just got the review copy of Richard Hopkins and Kevin Jenkins book Eating the IT Elephant : moving from Greenfield Development to Brownfield. I have known and worked with Richard for quite a few years so I was very interested when he started to talk about this book, then when this exploded into using [...]

Following on from Ian’s posts about the Eightbar gang sign and large hands and sign language in Second Life I have created the Eightbar gang sign using my good friend Anna. Anna is an animated avatar developed by the University of East Anglia’s eSign project to synthesize sign language, she was used as part of [...]

In case you missed this a couple of months ago, here’s Ren Reynolds (no relation) making sense of the metaverse. Henrik Bennetsen is making a time capsule, capturing people’s responses to some short questions. Henrik got the ball rolling by uploading some short video interviews he conducted at Metaverse U in Stanford earlier this year, [...]

A little while back many of us in eightbar and the wider IBM virtual universe community got to spend time talking to Rita J. King. Rita, or Eureka Dejavu as we all think of her was commissioned to write about how we got to where we are in virtual worlds. The story of a community [...]

Remember two years ago, when BBC Radio 1 came to Second Life for One Big Weekend? This year they explored augmented reality with a Band In Your Hand. Here’s Scott Mills showing Chappers how it works. Unfortunately the (Windows-only) download has already been taken down. Why? Because… Due to music rights restrictions this download was [...]

This is what planet Hursley looks like early in the morning. Ian suggested I share.

“We get so used to disguising ourselves to others that we end up becoming disguised to ourselves”

Jason Ellis works in IBM Research and maintains a brilliant blog about art and games. In a recent post, he links to this demo video for Melodyne’s new Direct Note Access technology, which looks frankly astonishing. As the video shows, exploding a sampled chord allows the kind of editing we’re already used to with MIDI [...]

On friday a contingent of the Hursley Emerging tech crew (a good few of who are founder members of eightbar) gathered in a Hampshire field to have a rocket launching competition. Fellow eightbar Rob Smart has produced this video of the entire event, its features all the key moments including Dave CJ’s rocket complete with [...]

Roo’s very own rooreynolds.com got a mention on this page in the computer weekly blog awards 2008 So in keeping with the desire to collect awards such as the IBM Baffler as well as voting for Roo or Andy Piper why not pop in a vote for eightbar too Nominate me in Web 2.0 and [...]