Archive for the 'Virtual worlds' Category

More Virtual Worlds Forum news

Monday, October 6th, 2008

This post may be a bit late, but…. Kevin/Boris Frampton one of former guildmasters in the IBM virtual universe community set up an SL overflow event for the VWF from 1:30-4pm. I was travelling and could not use the mobile in the car, but heading there now.
It also looks like an unconference will be [...]

Virtual Worlds Forum Postponed

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

We have all just been receiving notification of the postponing of the Virtual Worlds Forum tomorrow in London. It is completely outside anyones control due to an apparent fatal shooting outside the venue in the early hours of the morning.
Whilst clearly this is an inconvenience to many people who have flown in from all over [...]

Hangout.net a Unity3d web mashup virtual world

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Thanks to @ids for getting me an invite to hangout.net. I have ended up in there with green spikey hair and a drum set, so its ticking a few boxes already :)
It is powered by unity3d as discovered for us at eightbar by Rob.

It seems to have good web integration, playing my youtube video from [...]

Thoughts on OpenSim, interview on UgoTrade

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Tish Shute very kindly asked me to do an interview for her excellent blog over on Ugotrade. In the interview I discuss where OpenSim fits in with the rest of the Web and particularly how some of the recent work i’ve been doing makes it a more viable platform for consuming data and services from [...]

Real to virtual, pushing into opensim - more interoperability

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

You may have seen the trigger in Secondlife using the MQTT publish/subscribe work that Rob has been doing. Now we have real life into Opensim using the same messaging infrastructure it also uses Rob’s JSON support. MQTT is the light version of Websphere MQ event broker. You create a message, and anyone interested can do [...]

Investment in Virtual Worlds for return in 4-7 years

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

As I come into contact with many more startup firms and people funding them in virtual worlds I gave become more aware of just how different the long term thinking is of investors. In a time when there is a certain amount of financial meltdown out there it would appear that the smart money is [...]

Interesting microsoft virtual world developments?

Monday, September 29th, 2008

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 [...]

12 Seconds for the future of manufacturing and virtual worlds

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

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

We are on TV… again. This time Sky

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

 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.

Hursley 50th celebrations with added metaverse

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

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 [...]