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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]