Another Perfect World
In late June, the UK’s Channel 4 ran a documentary called Another Perfect World. It’s a well structured look at virtual environments with a focus on the tensions in developing a ‘utopia’, with World of Warcraft, Second Life, Metaplace and Lineage scrutinised. A 30-minute preview can be viewed right here:
Second Life user retrospectives
The Second Life sixth birthday is looming. What, I wondered, were the changes, for good or for ill, that made the biggest impacts upon the community of users, since the last birthday? While pondering this, I had the following thoughts:
“Don’t worry, users can barely remember what happened last week. 12 months down the track, they’ll [...]
A Second Life success story: NCI
It has been in Second Life for four years (having just celebrated its fourth anniversary), has over 150 staff, costs about US$13,000 each year to operate, holds 46,592 square metres of Second Life land (and rents quite a bit more), and is among the virtual environment’s most well-trafficked organizations.
It isn’t one of those corporate sites [...]
A year ago on The Metaverse Journal
Early October 2007 was a busy month. We interviewed Australian Second Life resident Wolfie Rankin on furries – it remains one of our most viewed stories.
The Melbourne Laneways build launched on ABC Island in Second Life.
Finally, potential Aussie virtual world Project Outback folded before it got close to public viewing.
A year ago on The Metaverse Journal
We toured Toxic Garden and discussed the potential of Metaplace.
A year ago on The Metaverse Journal
A year ago we covered the AIIA inworld-forum titled “Are Virtual Worlds relevant to my Marketing Effort?”
The same week, ABC Island ran a CSIRO forum on human life extension.
