Wimbledon is building a new court number 2. I got to go and have a look. The whole place is currently plain concrete and also has some terracotta warrior style statues of the players. All in all it looks like a Second Life render of a place that has not had any textures applied yet. [...]

I just got the review copy of Richard Hopkins and Kevin Jenkins book Eating the IT Elephant : moving from Greenfield Development to Brownfield. I have known and worked with Richard for quite a few years so I was very interested when he started to talk about this book, then when this exploded into using [...]

Following on from Ian’s posts about the Eightbar gang sign and large hands and sign language in Second Life I have created the Eightbar gang sign using my good friend Anna. Anna is an animated avatar developed by the University of East Anglia’s eSign project to synthesize sign language, she was used as part of [...]

For a while now our CIO Innovate Quick team have been busy on the Torque based Metaverse. As we have explained before this is primarily aimed at having a set of resources we can delve a bit deeper into the code of. The aim is not to create an all encompassing platform, as personally I [...]

The excellent chairity Sport Relief is holding a charity event 14-16th March in Second Life. There are various press releases flying around but as this is for a good cause then a little bit of viral marketing does not go a miss. The sim’s themselves are not yet public but the avatar based racing looks [...]

Powerup the game recently went live created by our colleagues here in IBM using the Torque games engine. It is a scenario based game, with a multiplayer online team approach to help students understand the role of science in saving a planet. This fits into the growing usage and acceptance of game based technology and [...]

The Eclipse infocenter has always seemed a strange and complex beast. But a bit of hacking has shown that there’s hope for it yet, in particular for use on plain old HTTP servers. And we get some nice stand-alone documentation for Lotus Expeditor microbroker into the bargain!

Does your avatar know how to make actual money? Bernadette Duponchel’s does. She was recently at the National Retail Federation conference with the rest of her team, presenting IBM’s take on virtual worlds for the fashion design industry. This is the second consecutive year IBM has demonstrated the use of virtual worlds at the NRF. [...]

Amongst several demo’s some IBM collegues were busy demoing a configurable room but combining with VR headsets at the NRF retail show.

The Australian Open Tennis is live and in public in Second Life this year and there is also a fashion competition with a cash prize!