Merged realities: events and issues for virtual worlds
1. The latest Second Life Education in New Zealand blog has an interesting update on a NZ-based Second Life creative project that’s exploring issues around public urban spaces.
2. Volume 3 of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research is now available and as usual contains a range of interesting research. A glimpse of some of the [...]
Weekend Whimsy
1. Gravity of Love – Second Life
2. mini second life adventure
3. Annasue & Robert69 Dancing Through Second Life
The Internet, video games, virtual environments and social networks: The new Demon Drink
An Engineering student at the University of Texas Austin murdered his wife and his mother at their homes, then shot and killed 14 people (and wounded 32 others) at his school, before being killed by police officers.
A Japanese woman who had been dumped by her Sappporo boyfriend destroyed some of his property and [...]
IMVU and the Victorian Bushfires
I received an email from IMVU’s PR people, part of which I think is worth re-publishing:
IMVU user PraiseRose is turning virtual donations into real world relief for individuals and communities affected by the devastating bushfires in Victoria, Australia.
A Canada native, PraiseRose has never even visited Australia, but she was so moved by the coverage [...]
Enterprise 2.0 and virtual worlds and a free discussion paper download
Today, I had the pleasure of facilitating four small group sessions at the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum 2009. The topic was virtual worlds and enterprise, and thanks to the participants in the groups, it turned into a very interesting exchange of ideas. The agenda of the overall forum was much wider: the use [...]
Virtual worlds: the next online banking
Aside from the group discussions on virtual worlds I facilitated yesterday, the only other time I witnessed them discussed at the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum 2009, was when Westpac’s David Backley spoke. As we reported last year, Westpac had trialled the use of Second Life to induct new employees in more remote locations.
Backley reflected [...]
