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 finding ways [...]
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. The [...]
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!
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 [...]
Ian Hughes, Mark Alexander and I are joining Andy Burns and the rest of the IBM team at Wimbledon today, helping out at two mini press conferences. Excitingly, they’re taking place in…
Wimbledon itself (in the physical realm of London’s SW19),
a conference call,
Streaming video (on ustream),
Second Life (at the IBM [...]
Hosted on IBM 2, the House of Horizons project is a partnership between IBM, Computerworld Denmark and a Danish firm called Innovation Lab. Each of the companies involved has a sphere in a floating bubbleplex, with other shared meeting areas too. The architecture was designed by real-world architectural firm Arkitema and built by Aimee Weber and her [...]