Archive for the 'IBM Projects' Category

House of Horizons grand opening, Danish band Carpark North rocks the crowd

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

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 [...]

More tennis in Second Life - Australian Open

Friday, January 12th, 2007

If you’ve been reading eightbar for a while, you may know that last year, some of the group put together a nice demo for Wimbledon (video available). The build was a proof-of-concept for taking a live feed of the balls from the Hawkeye system, and replaying the action in-world.
Well, the news is out on the Sydney [...]

IBM Virtual Worlds event in London and SL

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

As Andy pointed out, some of us spent much of today in both London and Second Life hosting a Virtual Worlds event for European press, which included a rather exciting global ThinkTank session.

We tried to make the day as interactive as possible, and after introductions and a real life discussion in the morning we [...]

Innovation Jam results

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

This years Innovation Jam was the third of IBMs jams. It was mainly web based, with over 150,000 people (IBMers as well as their families, business partners, universities, clients, …) apparently generating over 46,000 ideas.
Of course, as you’d expect, some of the fun happend inside Second Life too. This was a joint effort between [...]

Component Templates

Friday, October 20th, 2006

From January to May this year I was working as part of an incubator group to develop a technology called, Component Templates.

Component Templates are a way for a subject matter expert to develop a template that will let a less-knowledgeable user customise and configure an asset. The neat thing is that no [...]

IBM Virtual Block Party

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

Thanks to Peter Finn for pointing out this recent press release about the Greater IBM block party - an alumni event running tomorrow.
On Thursday, October 12, 2006, IBM is holding a first-of-its-kind Alumni block party in the virtual world of Second Life … The virtual block party is part of a larger IBM program [...]

Eightbar On Top Of The Rock

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006

Some of us from Hursley are in New York at the moment for an ITA workshop. It’s a chance to catch up with the work thats going on in other projects and the research that the rest of the teams are carrying out. Tha main areas that us Emerging Tech people are involved [...]

Hursley Research - ITA

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

The Hursley lab is playing a major part in a large research project, known as ITA. ITA, is a joint US and UK programme of fundamental research into network centric systems. It’s lead by IBM, but with a number of industrial and academic partners (Boeing, LogiaCMG, Honeywell, UCLA, Cambridge, Columbia etc. - there’s [...]

The Darren and Roo show: Day 1

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

Darren and Roo show off Second Life at an internal conference. Food and speakers: good. Beds: too short.

Wimbledon, Shuttles and July 4th

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

An interesting group dynamic in the Wimbledon bunker