Posted by Sean FitzGerald on April 4, 2008
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When this world-wide, 3D, avatar-mediated Cognosphere emerges from the convergence of these four trends we will truly reach the singularity: a point where technological progress does reach infinity as it relates to leveraging and enabling human capital.
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IBM said on Wednesday it will become the first company to host private regions of the Second Life Grid on its own servers, marking a new focus by Linden Lab on serving corporate customers.
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3Dconnexion debuted a made-for-Second Life “3D Mouse” called the SpaceNavigator at the Virtual Worlds 2008 Conference in New York on Thursday.
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The opportunity allows us to experiment with what we can take from our world that’s a simple idea that kids can customize, get made, and have sent to them. That sort of translation of virtual world to physical world.
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…the mad scientists at UK agency Daden Limited have cooked up yet another potentially transformative application for that technology (Second Life): an interface for accessing, navigating in, and interacting with Google Maps.
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Welcome to Music From Outer Space - your synth DIY fashion headquarters.
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Welcome to the midi plugin listing site.
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I’ve been hearing about this MMORPG for months — everyone seems to be talking about it but no one seems to have actually played it. So I thought I’d give it a spin.
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Posted by Sean FitzGerald on February 2, 2008
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Tracking Your Fingers with the Wiimote, Low-Cost Multi-point Interactive Whiteboards Using the Wiimote & Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the Wii Remote.
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KindleLab opensource interactive whiteboard application for the Wiimote interactive whiteboard (or Smartboard - Activeboard - Mimio - e-Beam).
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This workshop aims to copy objects from Second Life’s walled economy of simulated things. We export those into the real world by transforming them into life-size papercraft models.
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Once the domain of science fiction, advances in computer performance, connectivity, and 3-dimensional rendering now make physically-simulated, multiplayer, online virtual worlds available to a broad audience for nearly limitless applications.
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PDF Hammer is a website that allows you to edit your PDF files online for free. You don’t need to install any additional software, you can edit PDF documents right now inside your browser.
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Share your screen and share control with any number of people, for free!
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Posted by Sean FitzGerald on January 30, 2008
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The company is rolling out upgrades to Second Life’s s physics engine, developing a Web browser that will work in-world, and putting the finishing touches on a lightweight client for text and voice chat. In April it plans to open-source the SL server.
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OpenSim worlds like Central Grid work by allowing its users to host regions on their own computers, with Central Grid Inc providing the centralized inventory server and grid architecture that allows avatars to seamlessly walk from one region to another.
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The Central Grid is an independently operated virtual world, currently using the opensim software. We are building a community platform for other opensim grids to connect to The Central Grid.
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The OpenlifeGrid is a virtual world built on technology from the opensimulator project.
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This demo shows the use of Second Life as a platform for Augmented Reality. With our modified Second Life client, avatars and other Second Life graphics can be superimposed perspectively correct on a live video stream and in real-time.
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D’FUSION® is a real time visual software which makes possible to create Augmented Reality Applications with standard PC receiving one or several video inputs, with high performance and high quality images.
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Total Immersions’s software, D’Fusion, enables the real-time integration of interactive 3D graphics into live video flows. Operating on standard PC devices and compatible with HD, this technology blurs the line between the virtual and real world.
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This is a video from DEMO 2004 showing Total Immersion’s D’Fusion technology, which was rumoured to be used in Nintendo’s [then-unnamed] upcoming console, Revolution.
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Posted by Sean FitzGerald on November 26, 2007
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That’s the whole thing, right here. Life on Earth, in a nutshell. We are hard-wired to have a drastic double standard for the people inside and out of our Monkeysphere and those outside make up 99.999% of the world’s population.
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Follow this link to find his gift: step-by-step, easy-to-follow instructions that even non-coders can use on how to get your own grid PLUS a binary executable.
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This site will help you create scripts for your Second Life objects. These scripts allow you to add interactive elements to your builds without knowing how to code. All of the script are released under a creative commons license…
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Veodia’s video broadcasting service makes it easy and inexpensive for businesses, universities, religious institutions, and even professional bloggers to broadcast high-quality live video and digitally archive content for on-demand viewing or podcasting.
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Instructional. Video. Search.
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After setting up WordPress for several of my friends, I found that having a ‘checklist’ makes things go even faster - so I decided to write it all up and share with you.
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FileUrls.com - Get a shareable URL for your file
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Posted by Sean FitzGerald on November 20, 2007
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I just completely a 40 page illustrated retrospective on my learning from an initial year and half exploring Second Life.
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While there are a number of factors that influence frame rates… the the GPU (graphics processing unit) on your computer can definitely affect your viewing performance, since it does most of the work in drawing the objects you see.
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This document describes how to play Second Life and other stubborn online games in restricted places where all Internet connectivity is through a web proxy or a restrictive firewall only.
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Making textures with alpha channels is pretty easy once you get the hang of it. There are three basic steps: Selecting your pixels, making an alpha channel from those pixels, and saving the image as a targa file with alpha channels.
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This video show’s how real-time aircraft tracking data can be used to drive a 3D display of aircraft in Second Life. The system uses fboweb.com’s KMZ feed for Google Earth, with all SL functionality being developed by Daden Limited.
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Video games will only make children more violent if they already have a tendency towards aggression, a new study has found.
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Posted by Sean FitzGerald on November 10, 2007
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Musimmersion, a new system of scripting sets which enables a Resident musician to instantiate custom-made 3D environments to accompany specific songs they’re performing.
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Joe Little, who works in BP’s chief technology office, said the company has identified 3D interactive web and virtual worlds as the breakthrough technology for 2008. …for strategy planning, global collaboration and anonymous counselling for staff.
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Having written about a bunch of kidworlds in recent weeks, I thought a roundup would be useful. It seems there’s plenty of companies out there keen to target a younger demographic, buoyed by the success of worlds like Club Penguin, Webkinz and Habbo Hot
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“3-D realms such as Second Life are the next phase of the Internet’s evolution and may have the same level of impact as the first Web explosion.” — Sam Palmisano, CEO IBM Corporation, (Fortune Magazine).
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Immersive Education combines 3-D virtual reality technology along with digital media to bring distance learning and self-directed learning to a new level.
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The Big Juicy Twitter Guide
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Posted by Sean FitzGerald on November 7, 2007
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BUG is a new kind of device, one that’s designed by you, not us. BUG is an open source, modular consumer electronics platform that makes building hardware just as easy as writing software or Web applications.
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The concept of Jing is the always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere. It’s something we want to give you, along with some online media hosting, to see how you use it.
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Want to share your Second Life experience with someone else? Or represent your self to your SL clients using your avatar? Now you can - but you need crazy talk.
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CrazyTalk for Skype Media Edition enriches your daily Skype communication with video avatars and instant media sharing, a total P2P instant messaging solution allowing you to show ideas without waiting!
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Operator11 is the ultimate platform for multi-cam, LIVE video switching and streaming that lets you produce high quality shows with your friends in our best-of-breed online studio, right from your browser!.
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Yugma is a free forever, cross-platform team collaboration tool. With Yugma you can collaborate with offsite team members, give virtual presentations, hold webinars, streamline workflow, provide remote tech support, and much more.
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A TwitterGram has a title and a small MP3 file.
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The Eye-Fi Card is a wireless memory card. It automatically uploads pictures from your digital camera to your PC or Mac and to your favorite photo sharing, printing, blogging or social networking site. No cables, no waiting, no hassles.
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Posted by Sean FitzGerald on October 8, 2007
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Posted by Sean FitzGerald on August 14, 2007
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Unofficial Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) Starter Guide
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A graphical guide for all new users with a Windows background using Ubuntu
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Linux App Finder’s mission is to catalog useful GNU/Linux programs and provide a great resource to discover new apps.
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EasyVMX! is the simple and failsafe way to create complete virtual machines for VMware Player on the web. You can install any Windows, Linux, BSD or Solaris, and test LiveCDs in a safe environment.
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Posted by Sean FitzGerald on July 3, 2007
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Live Music shows from the virtual world of Second Life.
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From video sharing sites to video mixers, mashups and converters, we’ve brought together more than 150 of our favorite sites in this category. Enjoy.
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One in three teenagers say they’ve been bullied in some way online, but two-thirds of teens still believe they’re more likely to be harassed offline, according to a new study.
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Myths and misperceptions about online predators are driving adults to misguided efforts to protect young people, according to researchers.
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