The Watch – virtual worlds in the news
1. The Independent (UK) – Cybersex rules: Inside the world of ‘teledildonics’. “When I first deposited Journalist Hellershanks in Second Life, I wanted him to stand out. I gave him a shock of bright- orange hair, and a crisp white shirt, and I adjusted his height to about six-foot-four. He looked pretty good, I thought; [...]
Weekend Whimsy
1. Second Life : Felix Meritis Monastery with Clementia Merlin
2. Space Navigator Demo – Google Earth & Second Life
3. Tour of CONSENT! game in Teen Second Life
Avatar: representation, communication, experience
“Virtual Worlds Research: Consumer Behavior in Virtual Worlds”
Vol. 1. No. 2 ISSN: 1941-8477 November 2008
Symbolic and Experiential Consumption of Body in Virtual Worlds: from (Dis)Embodiment to Symembodiment
Source
This experiment focused on the corporeal body (real, physical or atomic embodiment), and the virtual body (digital, non-corporeal embodiment), also called an avatar in some digital environments. [...]
Google Lively bites the dust
After less than five months, Google have pulled the plug on Lively.
In a fairly terse statement, no substantive reason is given for the axing beyond wanting to concentrate on “our core search, ads and apps business”.
It’s a quick demise for a virtual world that showed some initial promise. It did have its controversies over its [...]
VastPark expand developer pool, SDK on the way
Vastpark’s slow but steady progress toward launch continues, with an announcement that its Developer Program has some new faces. Two of those faces include Australian-based companies: Finpa (an eLearning outfit) and The Project Factory (a virtual worlds developer).
The other entities coming on board are MindTaffy (USA), Metaversatility (USA) and ADMINO (Finland) [...]
Australian politics and virtual worlds – no momentum
It’s coming up to a year since the change of Federal government in Australia. In Second Life, there was an election night party.
At the time there was lots of excited talk about the ALP’s broadband policy and the promise it may bring – there is progress on that front but it’s fraught with problems. Then [...]
Out of consumer error – insert more consumers
Source: Journal Of Virtual Worlds Research Vol. 1. No. 2. ISSN: 1941-8477 November 2008
“Consumer Behaviour in Virtual Worlds”
The “New” Virtual Consumer: Exploring the Experiences of New Users
By Lyle R. Wetsch, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Faculty of Business Administration, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada.
In essence, Lyle Wetsch’s idea is that there are insufficient numbers [...]
