Wagner James Au has a brilliant post on New World Notes about a project at Georgia Tech called AR Second Life, which integrates Augmented Reality features into the open source Second Life client.
Last summer, Ian blogged here on Eightbar about an experiment with running the ARTag system alongside Second Life, and augmenting SL with additional [...]

The US version of The Office (which does an excellent job of being almost as funny as the BBC version) is no stranger to life online. It’s fun to spot Kevin, Meredith, Creed, Roy, Pam all on MySpace, and Dwight has a blog. This week they dipped into Second Life. The very same week as [...]

Both Ian and I are (for once) in the same place for much of this week at the Virtual Worlds Forum conference. I’m actually speaking at the ‘harnessing enterprise virtual worlds‘ pre-event workshop today, as part of the following lineup:

Steve Prentice (Gartner) – What are enterprise virtual worlds?
Ron Edwards (Ambient Performance) – Harnessing [...]

Although I’m missing the conference in San Jose this week, I am watching the breaking news from the event with rabid interest. First, we have the news itself. There was the official IBM release of course, and it hit the official Linden Lab blog too.

“Linden Lab and IBM will collaborate on integrating virtual worlds and [...]

My friend Nick was kind enough to lend me his copy of ‘The Unofficial Tourists’ Guide to Second Life‘ by Paul Carr and Graham Pond, and couldn’t help point out a few interesting inaccuracies as he did so.  Here is my open letter to the authors, in order to correct some minor problems…
Page 115 – [...]

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 “wow”. [...]

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.

The world is positively abuzz this morning with news of guidelines being released by IBM as a code of conduct for IBMers in virtual worlds.
Lots of news sources (including TIME, USATODAY, the Examiner, the San Jose Mercury News and more) are carrying an Associated Press story talking about the guidelines. Since nobody seems to be linking to the guidelines [...]

I’ve been wanting to post something about art in virtual worlds for a while. Yesterday, my friend Kybernetikos posted some thoughtful observations about the limitations of virtual worlds, which included these two sentences about art:

Art is always looking for new mediums to express itself in, and with a virtual world, it has an old one [...]