Weekend Whimsy
1. The scariest house in Second Life by Ulysses Cabaret & Anthonys Republic
2. Casamento DjTroy Paulino & Rachel McDonnell Second Life
3. Jazz at Botanical Gardens in Second Life
Virtual worlds as lawn mowing
Although it’s mostly a throwback to the mid to late 20th Century, there’s still a significant cohort of Australians who associate mowing the lawn with the ‘Aussie lifestyle’ (I hate generalisations, but bear with me). There’s no shortage of people who still dream of owning their own land, on which they can inflict the weekly [...]
Merged realities – events and issues for virtual worlds
1. Virtual London is coming soon to Twinity and they’re asking for people to apply to create some innovative spaces. There’s 200 Euros in prize money up for grabs plus your own space in Twinity. All the details here
2. Volume 2, No. 3 of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research is out. The theme of [...]
The Watch – virtual worlds in the news
1. Business in Vancouver (Canada) – Virtual worlds now delivering genuine business opportunities. “As video games, social networks and virtual worlds increasingly star as stand-ins for reality, development shops are exploring new ways to monetize fantasy by creating virtual marketplaces replete with digitized goods and services. Fuelled by micro-transactions in which users buy virtual goods [...]
UWA: making everyone welcome
The UWA campus in SL
It began with a team from the University of Western Australia and Google SketchUp. Having won the Google “Build your Campus in 3D” competition, for which the team re-created some of the physical world’s campus buildings in SketchUp, it was but a short, logical step to want to bring those same [...]
Weekend Whimsy
1. Second Life Burning Life 2009
2. Doctor Who – Second Life – Welcome Home, Doctor
3. Second Life Architecture
Virtual goods – endless growth?
Over the past year, the hype around virtual goods as the next big thing has continued unabated. Like the hype surrounding virtual worlds, it’ll eventually ease off, but underneath that is the reality of the very significant growth that is continuing. Two recent announcements have really emphasised that growth.
The first comes Ning, who [...]
