From Gary’s original post on personalizemedia.
Interesting times ahead - the Console space finally collides with the Social Virtual World space as Sony and Microsoft race to be first to offer non-closed beta, ’social (read: commercial) virtual world’ front ends to their ‘trojan horse’ consoles. Will they start to reap the benefits of a very large [...]
In the US and Europe we’ve seen a lot of content starting out on the internet before migrating to TV or to new online delivery platforms - on your TiVO, PS3 or XBox360. Afterworld is an example of short content that is now showing on the Sci Fi channel but started on the internet, Sony [...]
There have been a few TV shows that have offered new and immersive experiences into collaborative virtual worlds notably MTV with Laguna Beach, The Hills, Pimp My Ride and others into There.com as well as CSI and BigBrother (that I wrote about 2 years ago) into Second Life - and lots more. The latest entrant [...]
To show how Social 3D Worlds are permeating the real world the first ever Congressional hearing on Virtual Worlds was run in April of this year. The then CEO of Linden Lab (Second Life) Philip Rosedale, testified before the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, basically telling them about the likely ‘influence’ that 3D [...]
Interesting little vignette below featuring Dr. Lisa Dethridge (RMIT lecturer and an ex LAMP participant for an SLCN.tv-like LAMP project called InWorld) with the presenter of ABC’s community focused TV show ‘Can We Help?’. The short video has several clips of ABC Island built by a Gary Hazlitt (whoever he is) and in an earlier [...]
The Thursday’s Fictions cross-media jamboree has been put into the Atom finals awards 2008 as Best Multimodal Production (other 3 entries below).
Award Recipients - Names: Richard James Allen, Gary Hayes, and Karen Pearlman
Award Recipients - Organisations: The Physical TV Company, AFTRS LAMP (The Australian Film Television and Radio School - The Laboratory for Advanced Media [...]
Gary Hazlitt and Gazlitt (aka as me!) take a ‘break’ in over fifty worlds comprising the current metaverse, here is the holiday video…cross posted from Personalizemedia.
“I am doing curriculum development (and other things) on the evolving range of social virtual worlds and have recently ventured into fifty of them to review and sample the culture, [...]
Its been a long time coming but finally the new Second Life client 1.20 has a new advanced feature hidden in its client/debug menus (advanced/character/enable lip sync) - the ability for the mouth to move roughly in time with the live voice passing through the avatar. Combine this with the already included gestures and you [...]
I have mentioned several times in this blog about the next big steps in the metaverse and two of my key points spring to mind, 1) Integration with existing online ‘life’ tools and 2) a company with super deep pockets, Google. So without much fanfare or pomp or circumstance ‘Lively - perpetual beta‘ was sneakily [...]
Literature and New Media: trope – promoting new writing in Second Life
www.trope.net.au
When/where: Thursday, 22 May 2008, 12pm – 2pm, Bangarra Theatre, Pier 4/5, Hickson Road, Walsh Bay
trope is a new space in Second Life promoting creative writing in virtual environments. The roundtable features trope’s creators alongside writers selected for the first iteration, discussing the [...]
As LAMP were presenting in mid 07 during various machinima and virtual world seminars the film ” Molotov Alva” has finally been transmitted on a national cable network, HBO in the US yesterday. Click here to go to HBO site to see a preview (for a week or so) and here is the official web [...]
Following on from the watercooler post last week on Second Life running on a Samsung phone it is interesting how in the last month we have virtual worlds appearing on mobile devices at every turn - iPhone etc: below. Will May 08 be known as the month Web 3.0 (the real time, social virtual world [...]
The Second Life client is now on Samsung mobile handsets, allowing access to the Second Life virtual world whenever and wherever-without wires! It includes a ‘mixed blogging’ platform that allows users to post their blog simultaneously in the real world AND the virtual world of Second Life. Users can also have ‘mixed world’ experiences by communicating with avatar friends [...]
I bought a Vuzix VR920 (3D slick glasses) the other day and can now experience World of Warcraft and Second Life amongst hundreds of other virtual worlds in 3D at 1024 resolution. This has an in built 3 axis gyro type control - so as you move your head the view changes naturally - what [...]
Yes Lady’s and Gent’s you heard it right… After completing his 100th soccer/football game for England, everyone’s favourite high-pitched voice sports star, David Beckham has received a gold plated iPod touch from his team mates to celebrate the occasion.. The thing is worth over $1,600.00 aussie dollars.. And fortunately they didn’t skimp on the iPod [...]
