The Super Secret world. Shhh!
“It was the year 2050 and the City was under attack. We held out as long as we could, those of us who had chosen to stay behind. We kept our vigil in the dark, all the lights out, excepting only the dim illumination from our monitors, both for reasons of conservation [...]
PIVOTE – open source learning for virtual worlds
British firm Daden have been releasing virtual worlds products for a while now – we covered their in-world web browser last July. Their latest launch is an “open-source learning system or virtual worlds, the web and iPhone”. Its moniker is PIVOTE and it’s the result of a project called PREVIEW funded by the UK Government’s [...]
OpenSim / realXtend: fast evolution
realXtend
realXtend has remained on a fairly fast-paced development course in recent months, with some interesting announcements in the last few days:
- the current cross-platform viewer has had an upgrade
- a brand new viewer is underway, but not expected to be released until a fair way later in the year
- a new community-driven forum for [...]
eKidna World: Australia’s preteen virtual world challenger
eKidna World is one of the newest virtual world offerings on the block for preteens, and it’s an Australia-based one to boot.
Founded by Brisbane-based mother of two, Karen Orford, eKidna World is a web-based world with a fairly hefty feature-set. As you’ll read in our interview below, eKidna is essentially a one-person self-funded operation, [...]
