Archive for the 'Virtual worlds' Category
Thursday, May 7th, 2009
This week I’ve been at IBM’s IMPACT 2009 conference in Las Vegas, along with a lot of my colleagues from IBM Hursley. As I wrote over on my personal blog, this is an event aimed at Smart SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) and the Smarter Planet… but the synergies between them are bringing in all kinds [...]
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
I’ve been away for a couple of weeks so I’m very late in posting this!
On 28 and 29 April, IBM is going to be running an SOA tour being using the virtual Forbidden City: Beyond Space and Time. Ian wrote about the Forbidden City launch last year.
According to the press release:
Attendees will be able [...]
Posted in Events, IBM Projects, Virtual worlds | 1 Comment »
Thursday, March 5th, 2009
I thought that those of you who read this blog might be interested to know I am appearing live on the Metanomics show this coming monday. Whilst I am appearing in my role as Director of Feeding Edge Ltd the conversation will be about how I see the industry going from IBM’s and corporate enterprise [...]
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
Dave Kamalsky of Linden Lab (formerly of IBM Almaden) pinged me to point out that they now have a new blog called Working Inworld. Now, I wouldn’t usually repost this kind of thing, but one particular post that caught my eye was the joint IBM / Linden Lab case study on the IBM Academy of [...]
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
In the “nothing new to eightbar readers” column – we’ve talked about this before and it was showed at Lotusphere 2009 – it looks like the Sametime 3D platform is now available for test by selected IBM clients.
We don’t usually “do” press releases on eightbar, but this one is particularly interesting as it develops from [...]
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
Today is a day of mixed emotions. Today I resigned from IBM having been there for 18 years, 19 if you count my year out from university.
In all that time I have worked with some great people, and felt a tremendous sense of belonging.
Its been quite a journey, both in technical education and in personal [...]
Posted in Hursley, Second Life, Technology, Virtual worlds, twitter | 56 Comments »
Monday, February 16th, 2009
Last night I was invited to speak to a very diverse class of MBA students and entrepreneurs at Babson as a guest (Thankyou Linda for the invite). The conversation of course happened in Second Life, and also happened to be around midnight my time. That in itself is almost routine now, though for a change [...]
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Sunday, February 15th, 2009
This trailer has just hit youtube. I am sure more will become clear as this project moves on, for now just enjoy.
Posted in Technology, Virtual worlds, augmented reality | 1 Comment »
Friday, February 6th, 2009
Thankyou to AnnieOk for pointing me towards the video and articles here on the MIT Fluid interfaces that got such a good reception at TED 2009. This is brilliant work. You have to see this and go to wired to read the rest of the article.
Projection, mixed with gesture and finger tracking, whilst looking a [...]
Posted in Second Life, Technology, Virtual worlds, augmented reality | 2 Comments »
Thursday, February 5th, 2009
Ann Marie Shillito from Anarkik 3D visited the eightbar crowd in Hursley (thanks to epred for inviting a bunch of us hangers-on along!).
Anarkik are involved with haptic input devices and have developed some really nice software which enables users to interact with virtual worlds and 3D modelling tools using a consumer-priced haptic controller which can [...]
Posted in 3d printing, Hursley, Technology, Virtual worlds | 5 Comments »