Archive for July, 2008

Webflock by the ESC

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

I was tempted to do lots of Flocking jokes in the title of this, but I will leave that as an excercise for the reader. I had a chat today with Giff and Swords from Electric Sheep Company anout their virtual world product/service that they have created called Webflock. There is a much richer description [...]

Goodbye Roo

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Roo forgot(?) to include himself in his fantastic lego group shot below. So as a wishing him a fond farewell here’s a little sketch of Roo hanging out with his posse.

Last Post

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

It’s my last day in the office today before I leave IBM, so it’s time to have a final cup of tea (and pint of something stronger) with my many friends at Hursley. To mark the occasion, I spent last night building Lego representations of the Emerging Technology Services team, with whom I’ve had such [...]

Private beta access to Shapeways 3d printing community

Monday, July 28th, 2008

For anyone interested out there in the 3d printing community Shapeways have a first come first serve access to their private beta (which we are not affiliated to in any way other than interested).
On a first come first serve basis
http://www.shapeways.com/beta
BetaCode: EightBar8
You can also follow them on twitter
I will let you know how I get [...]

Yet more 3d Printing

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

I am a big fan of 3d printing . I tend to use it as an example of the next stages of virtual world interoperability with the real world. So when I see a new service pop up I always like to follow it (having not purchased my own printer yet as all my personal [...]

PS3 Home vs Xbox 360 new look dashboard vs Nintendo Mii

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

The explosion of avatar based interaction outside of the context of an actual game is well and truly on a roll at the moment. It is akin to when evrything and everyone started to allow profile pictures. These pictures are of course a low grade avatar expression of a persons intent towards you and a [...]

Unity3d gets even better

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Rob just called me over to talk about Unity3D. A newer version has been released onto the world and it looks very exciting for development of virtual worlds MMO’s and all the metaverse things we have come to love.

Rob has been doing some Unity exploration for a little while now, and a few other colleagues [...]

Virtual Policy 08 Conference - Car boot sales and micropayments

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Ren’s BERR sponsored virtual policy ‘08 event the past two days has been a very intense and informative time. Aside from catching up with some of the metarati there has been a meeting of minds from all sorts of places. Companies, government bodies, lawyers, regulators, standards bodies, games companies and educators.

The crux of the conference [...]

Another day another Virtual Worlds speaking gig

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

I should have blogged this earlier, but I now realize that Ren Reynold’s Virtual Policy ‘08 conference is next Tuesday/Wednesday in London. There are a whole host of speakers and panelists including yours truly.
Ren is the founder of the virtual policy network amongst other things and as such is advisor to BERR(The Department of Business, [...]

Losing a Metaverse Evangelist from IBM

Friday, July 18th, 2008

I have had to write a lot of posts recently wishing people good luck, but this one is the hardest. As some of you may have already seen on twitter or elsewhere Roo is leaving IBM and heading for the BBC
He is off to do a fantasticly exciting role and I really do wish him [...]