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the metaverse journal virtual world news the metaverse journal virtual world news coverage of news issues and events occurring in virtual worlds or those who create those worlds home about advertise contact metaverse reader iphone and ipad application faq podcasts press shop comments general news australian news business education health events vr and latency carmack s thoughts february 24 2013 by lowell cremorne leave a comment this post originally appeared over at our sister site metaverse health john carmack is a bit of an icon in gaming circles and he s also one of the people that s supporting the oculus vr consumer headset that s on the near horizon i d very stupidly assumed having not read any biographical details on him until today that he wasn t that deep into the coding science of things like this he s just posted a nice piece of work on the challenges of latency read more vale abc island in second life september 21 2012 by lowell cremorne 3 comments as i wrote a few weeks back the australian broadcasting corporation s presence in second life is about to come to a close the 22nd september sees the curtain fall but not without some festivities prior particularly this saturday 22nd september when the final party occurs here s the slurl to teleport to abc island i ve been an admin on the island in name only i ve had no active involvement really since 2008 and i ve seen it evolve and grow over read more philip rosedale spruiks new venture talks down second life november 10 2011 by lowell cremorne 3 comments if you ve followed the exploits of linden lab s former ceo and current chairman over the past year or so you ll know he s been off creating something new the new york times has run a profile on that venture coffee and power that venture seems interesting enough and leverages heavily the virtual currency model used for second life in this case to purchase or receive payment for goods or services it s very similar to a bunch of other services though read more slactions 2012 call for papers may 17 2012 by lowell cremorne comments off research conference on virtual worlds life imagination and work using metaverse platforms november 2012 http www slactions org http www facebook com pages slactions life imagination and work using meta verse platforms 242464792497177 http twitter com slactions call for papers the metaverse is emerging through the increasing use of virtual world technologies that act as platforms for end users to create develop and interact read more virtual ability island big week of activities february 7 2013 by lowell cremorne 1 comment longstanding hub for health and community services information virtual ability island has a big week of activities ahead that i wanted to give a plug to first the summary of the events virtual ability community events week of feb 4 10 events marked are open to the public all other events are for vai community members and their invited guests tuesday feb 5 2 30pm slt woodget s weekly quiz night vai sanctuary beach cafe wednesday feb read more queensland flood relief in second life january 22 2011 by lowell cremorne 3 comments two years ago a number of second life vendors got together to raise funds for the victorian bushfire victims thanks to another bunch of dedicated people coordinated by brisbane based kat johnston there are a range of things you can do to raise money for the queensland premier s disaster relief appeal it s all under the banner of extend a helping hand eahh and there s two large ways to make a difference 1 attend some of the great events planned read more recent stories virtual ability island big week of activities longstanding hub for health and community services information virtual ability island has a big week of activities ahead that i wanted to give a plug to first the summary of the events virtual read more bible based virtual world on the way interesting little announcement press release mostly for some of the claims being made or assumptions on approaches of a range of other virtual worlds for children i also find it fascinating that read more linden lab s amazon bundling bungling tateru nino has a great piece on linden lab s announcement that they are selling second life bundled with packages of content read it for yourself i don t think it s possible for me to agree more with read more procrastination and virtual worlds as work i just wanted to briefly post a piece as i m more than acutely aware that it s been well over a month since anything new has appeared here it s definitely not due to a lack of interest in virtual worlds read more vale abc island in second life as i wrote a few weeks back the australian broadcasting corporation s presence in second life is about to come to a close the 22nd september sees the curtain fall but not without some festivities prior read more mayo clinic in second life looks like an interesting session of the non profit commons in sl this friday this friday september 14th nonprofit commons is happy to feature brian kaihoi svea morane in sl of the mayo read more reactiongrid retreats from opensim hypergrid business has an interesting piece on the change in direction for reactiongrid we ve followed them closely over the years including our distinctly retro interview with ceo kyle gomboy back in read more the future of the metaverse if there has been a failure it is ours a great piece from www botgirl com on linden lab s recent moves fleep tuque posted a fascinating essay yesterday with the provocative title why anyone who cares about the metaverse needs to move read more project to improve graphics rendering in second life via linden lab one of the challenges that virtual world creators face is the trade off between rich visual detail and geometric complexity ideally by adding more and smaller faces to an object read more abc island to close in second life it s not surprising but sad all the same the wonderful community driven project that is abc island in second life is to close on the 22nd of september the island has been a staple of the australian read more the end of the second life community convention a great piece from fleep tuque you may have read the official announcement that avacon is not organizing a second life community convention this year this post is not an official anything it s just read more daden unveil oopal oopal pronounced oo pull is daden s latest offering a web based editor allowing you to place and edit objects in a 2d environment which will then roll out to the 3d environment currently opensim and read more linden lab registers new trademark the ever vigilant tateru nino has a great piece on a new trademark registered by linden lab sounds like the casual gaming approach is about to come to the fore at linden lab whether this translates read more euclideon pops its head above the parapet in august last year i posted the last of a few articles on promising new graphics technology called unlimited detail as i posted there the team were going to ground to work on getting the technology read more from the wider metaverse game companies raise 1 54b in 2011 game fundings destroyed the record book for fundings this year as 145 companies raised more than 1 540 billion in 2011 not counting initial public offerings in 2011 games took center stage game investment read more marvel announces official mmo title marvel heroes via scoop it metaverse newsthe marvel comics mmo formerly known as marvel universe online has finally been officially christened gazillion entertainment announced in a press release today that due read more using virtual reality to cure real life ptsd via scoop it metaverse newsdoctors are hoping that virtual reality can help cure soldiers of their all too real wartime traumas the new york presbyterian hospital weill cornell medical cente has received read more led mounted in a contact lens virtual ar displays a fascinating video on mounting an led in a contact lens in the virtual worlds speher the applications are obvious and appealing to say the least have a watch for yourself but here s the video maker s read more invoked computing you really can use a banana as a telephone alvaro cassinelli is an assistant professor at the ishikawa oku lab at the university of tokyo he and his partner alexis zerroug have created a multi modal shared web hosting promos a system that read more yordie sands my wonderful fantasy 2011 it s that time of year where a lot of people look back on the year that was over the coming week we ll be featuring retrospectives from other blogs whether they are a broad look back at a virtual world read more is opensim usage falling today hamlet au wrote a column suggesting that the opensim user base is shrinking and used hypergrid business numbers to support his position the short answer to his question is no opensim usage read more litigating trademark and copyright cases in the metaverse the metropolitan corporate counsel in neal stephenson s 1992 science fiction novel snow crash 1 humans battle each other as avatars in the metaverse the collective product of online shared three dimensional space 2 while read more great overview of vwbpe 2012 by daniel voyager early this morning i logged into second life to visit vwbpe locations around the grid and started to collect notecards freebies which was fun as you can see today i have updated my blog for vwbpe 2012 read more wonderschool streams world to a tablet hypergrid business open wonderland an open source java based alternative to opensim is now available on a tablet according to wonderschool a subsidiary of germany s thinsia clients can now access the platform read more american library association s sl island closes libraries librarians and library associations have historically been some of the most active nonprofit groups in second life establishing an entire archipelago of library related islands during their read more kitely rolls out vivox voice from hypergrid business kitely became the second commercial opensim grid to roll out vivox voice today boston based vivox inc is currently the gold standard of in world voice used in second life read more academic research paper on opensim community while the nature of the firm has long been established as the dominant form of organizing for value creation emergent forms of organizing such as the private collective community model have recently gained read more this is how an augmented reality love plus date feels like one of the new functions in upcoming 3ds love sim new love plus is something called dokodemo date or date anywhere this augmented reality ar feature takes a photo of your physical surroundings with read more opensim npcs simulate disasters for most people npcs non player characters are the princesses you need to save in video games dragons you need to defeat and shopkeepers who give advice about how to proceed in your read more virtual world to help kids overcome trauma the times of india doctors in a domed laboratory in canada are designing a virtual world where they hope to one day treat traumatized children with colorful avatars using toy like medical gadgets sensory stimulation could read more federal virtual worlds moving beyond second life several years ago the national oceanic and atmospheric administration maintained more than a dozen virtual environments for online visitors to explore in second life now it operates just one for read more 3di to launch free unity based world hypergrid business japen s 3di inc best known for their browser based opensim viewers will be testing a new free public unity based virtual world this weekend called 3di cloud according to 3di senior manager read more levitating residence opensim creations via opensim creations com read more a marketing push via scoop it metaverse news someone recently asked me to check with the lab and ask about the big marketing push that the lab said at slcc that it was gearing up for if i recall rightly 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