You may have seen the trigger in Secondlife using the MQTT publish/subscribe work that Rob has been doing. Now we have real life into Opensim using the same messaging infrastructure it also uses Rob’s JSON support. MQTT is the light version of Websphere MQ event broker. You create a message, and anyone interested can do [...]

As I come into contact with many more startup firms and people funding them in virtual worlds I gave become more aware of just how different the long term thinking is of investors. In a time when there is a certain amount of financial meltdown out there it would appear that the smart money is [...]

Yes this is a blog written by IBMers, but it would be wrong to not comment on things happening in an industry that we helped energize simply because a perceived competitor is doing some unusual things.
Remember, these are my thoughts not IBMs.
The last few days have seen a plethora of virtual world pitches, reports, articles [...]

I have been introduced to 12seconds.tv, micro video blogging. I just had to record the future of manufacturing in 12 seconds. Fabjectory and Shapeways leading the way. Making virtual things real.
3d printing the future of manufacturing on 12seconds.tv

The next big conference and expo for all things virtual world is happening in London in 2 weeks time. Its the second year of the Virtual Worlds Forum Europe and a few of your favourite eightbars will be in attendance, aswell as a more formal IBM presence. (IBM is a sponsor).
Rob and I will be [...]

 The recent hursley 50th has yielded this great bit of footage.
The whole package is great, but 4 mins in, yours truly rocking the virtual world

Yes I do quote(with attribution) the famous Warcraft is the new golf phrase. :-)
I also seem to have become the lead story on the event. Fancy that.

This week has seen the official part of the IBM Hursley 50th anniversary celebrations. To mark the occasion we have had 3 days of visitors to little country estate in Hampshire, with a mix of presentations and expo’s of all the things that are done here.

We had a visit from John Denham, Secretary of State [...]

I’ve been tracking the progress of the OpenSim project for quite some time now and gradually delving deeper into the midst of this little open-source wonder.
For those of you who haven’t come across OpenSim, or have heard of it but haven’t investigated in too much detail; OpenSim is a Virtual Worlds platform built from [...]

Today I received a call from my dad, he had seen a news article in my hometown newspaper the fabled Gt Yarmouth Mercury. Great Yarmouth (for those not of a UK disposition) is far on the east coast of england, the round bit that stick out and is just north of the most easterly point [...]

Today led to a rather exciting development. Since the original experiments with Second Life many of us from Hursley have wanted to apply the elements of pub/sub messaging that Hursley is known for to the transport of events from various virtual worlds.
Rob augmented his very cool Unity3d server worlds with the ability to consumer published [...]