Yes this is a blog written by IBMers, but it would be wrong to not comment on things happening in an industry that we helped energize simply because a perceived competitor is doing some unusual things.
Remember, these are my thoughts not IBMs.
The last few days have seen a plethora of virtual world pitches, reports, articles [...]
I have been introduced to 12seconds.tv, micro video blogging. I just had to record the future of manufacturing in 12 seconds. Fabjectory and Shapeways leading the way. Making virtual things real.
3d printing the future of manufacturing on 12seconds.tv
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 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 [...]
In all the various birthdays, travelling and conferencings I realized I had not written anything here on eightbar to point those of you who dont know about it yet to Christian and Sean’s virtual worlds outlook report. It is certainly a must read document (thats not just because I get a mention either!)
You can get [...]
This years west coast event has, as usual, been very full of lots of conversation with all sorts of people. The IBM stand seemed to be a constantly busy place, and my shifts on there certainly were productive in terms of explaining what we do in general and what I do with the CIO office. [...]
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.
Me and IBM :-)
Yes last night at the end of the first day of the virtual world expo I was asked up on stage after a very nice intro from Steve Prentice (whose speech featured the brilliant quote from Pirates of the Carribean that the pirates code is not so much of a rule as [...]