Wrap-up of AIMIA NSW Intimates: The Future of Virtual Worlds
On Tuesday evening the AIMIA “Future of Virtual Worlds” (Part 2) was held at the The Shelbourne Hotel in Sydney. Over 60 people attended from a variety of business, government and technology groups – either the first time or to find out more about SL.
The wide variety of community representation meant the panellists; Chris Collins [...]
Australia Council offers SL artist residency
The Australia Council (Inter-Arts office) are offering $20 000 for up to three people to facilitate a Second Life residency:
“The residency allows for a collaborative team of up to three people (including a writer, musician/sound artist and digital visual media practitioner) to develop inter-disciplinary artwork in Second Life.
Applications will only be accepted from teams [...]
The scenery just got prettier
Yesterday’s Linden Blog posting heralded a major step forward in the visual strength of the SL platform – Linden’s acquisition of the Windlight graphics technology from Windward Mark Interactive.
As Linden Labs say themselves, the short story on the technology is “killer skies”. The initial shots supplied certainly live up to that description:
(Photo part of set [...]
ABC Island Update
As anyone who’s visited ABC Island this afternoon will know, things are back to normal. Rollback is one of the strengths of the platform and it was demonstrated today. At the AIMIA seminar this evening on The Future of Virtual Worlds (wrap-up of the event will be published tomorrow), Abi Goldflake recounted how the [...]
ABC island hits a snag
ABC island today experienced a significant degradation overnight due to unknown causes. Veteran aussie resident Wolfie Rankin, who is one of the ABC island admins, was offered the whole ABC Sandbox as inventory, which obviously rang some alarm bells. The island looks a little different at present:
We’ll keep in touch with the ABC’s Abi Goldflake [...]
Smart Internet and business in SL
Smart Internet, a joint venture between a range of universities, State Governments and industry, has released a report called ‘Business in Second Life: An Introduction’. Authored by Swinburne University-based Senior Researcher Mandy Salomon, it provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of play in SL for Australian business.
Australia? There is at least one in SL.
Australia is an island continent, so it’s not surprising that someone would have an SL island of the same name. Tucked away and un-named in an SL search result is an interesting commercial venture that is simply called “Australia“. Whilst the island is not in the shape of Australia yet, its developer, Richard Tripp, has [...]
