Thanks to @ids for getting me an invite to hangout.net. I have ended up in there with green spikey hair and a drum set, so its ticking a few boxes already :)
It is powered by unity3d as discovered for us at eightbar by Rob.
It seems to have good web integration, playing my youtube video from [...]
You may think sometimes that we are only bothered with avatars and islands. However things like this that changes the way you get insight into the flow of a project are equally fascinating.
This video is from mediamolecule showing the development of Little Big Planet (the game that may well save the PS3 in my house [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Earlier in the year in New York I took a dash around video of the expo floor. Now we are here in LA doing the next one I thought I would do the same thing to compare and contrast. 41+ exhibitors this time. Look out for some metarati faces you may know.