Posted by Sean FitzGerald on April 28, 2007
We’re at this bar on Middletown. It’s not too bad, but I wouldn’t want to upset the muppet barman! I think the head of one of his customers who didn’t pay is in the prim box on the bar!
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Posted by Sean FitzGerald on April 26, 2007
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Good overview of alternatives to Second Life based on the three key features of Second Life - User-generated content, users own IP of their creations and an in-world economy with real money transfer.
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“Tech consultancy Gartner, whose “Hype Cycle” has been used to gauge Second Life adoption, thinks that 80 percent of active Internet users will be in non-gaming virtual worlds like Second Life by the end of 2011 - a huge increase from current levels.”
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“Real Life Architects in Second Life will be conducting a ‘Wikitecture’ experiment on Architecture Island in Second Life over the next month to determine just how feasible a collaborative approach in design might be in the architectural profession.”
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Posted by Sean FitzGerald on April 22, 2007
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“Flux Player™ 2.0 lets you see the Web in 3D and play with virtual scenes, worlds, avatars, gadgets and games in a standard browser.” & “Try authoring 3D content and worlds in the free new Flux Studio™ 2.0.”
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“View your data, ask questions, and share your discoveries. Harness the collective intelligence of the net for insight and analysis.”
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“The aims … are to expose many peoples of many disciplines to the Second Life environment, offer them the opportunity to create a personal or public space within this environment while attempting to both define a new architectural vernacular.”
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“Holding classes in Second Life also lets the students reach out to the rest of the world through attending lectures by professionals and through socialising with the other residents of the virtual world.”
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AI programmable bot that answers questions about you. Great idea, but these things still suck and have a way to go before they are usable.
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“5min is a place to find short video solutions for every practical question and is also a place for people who want to share their knowledge.”
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Posted by Sean FitzGerald on April 15, 2007
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“…a world where kids do much of what adults do - with the idea that they are learning practical skills in the grown-up world at play. While a large amount of time is taken up chatting with friends, they also save money for land and build houses…”
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Web-based tool for creating interactive 3D environments.
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“The three-dimensional maps use force fields to represent walls and roads…” How hard would it be to implement something like this in Second Life or Google Earth, since the models are already there?
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Article about the coming mass personalisation of the design and fabrication of physical objects.
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Posted by Sean FitzGerald on April 4, 2007
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“Pelican Crossing is the developer of Blink 3D™, the complete system for creating and viewing rich interactive and animated multi-user 3D environments that can be published and viewed on the Web or locally.”
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“First off, the industry will have to get rid of HTTP, a longtime communication protocol that enables Web browsing. It’s simply outlived its usefulness, she said. Actually, she said it lived out its usefulness a while ago…”
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“The goal of VTP is to foster the creation of tools for easily constructing any part of the real world in interactive, 3D digital form.”
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“…lots of discussions about how we’re going to start merging online games out of Virtual Earth…and taking commerce into 3D…. 370 million users of instant messaging, and MSN is considering merging those users with Virtual Earth…”
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“Microsoft’s Virtual Earth 3D… allows advertisers to buy banner ads that float above buildings in photorealistic environments… downloads into a browser, melds together Virtual Earth’s 3D features and Microsoft map and local search.”
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