Merged realities – events and issues for virtual worlds
1. ABC Island’s friends are seeking feedback on the new Pool Studio. It features a green screen area for Machinima production and a cinema section where we hope to stream video shortly.
2. Interested in helping entrepreneurs in developing countries? Our Metaverse Aid team is growing slowly and more than a dozen ventures have been [...]
Merged realities – events and issues for virtual worlds
1. The US-based Spina Bifida Association is holding a fundraiser in Second Life this coming weekend:
Spina Bifida Awareness is pleased to announce the 2009 Second Life Charity Auction on Sunday, April 12, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. Second Life Time at the Justice League Explorer’s Club in Port Harbor, Steelhead.
Bid on the creations of Second Life’s [...]
ABC Island 2nd Anniversary event in pictures
A handful of pics from the successful event last evening. Some good trivia by Wolfie Rankin, goodmusic by Komuso Tokugawa and an overall great night thanks to the ABC Admin team.
ABC Island in Second Life: two years
On Friday March 16th 2007, members of the ABC Friends group in Second Life got to see the completed ABC Island, with the public launch on the 19th March to coincide with the Four Corners episode ‘You Only Live Twice’.
Since that time there’s been a regular and dedicated community on ABC Island that have ensured [...]
Merged realities – events and issues for virtual worlds
1. Intranet consultants Step Two designs have announced entries are open for the 2009 Intranet Innovation Awards, and they’re looking for entries that demonstrate the use of virtual worlds within the enterprise. Alex Manchester is a Senior Consultant at Step Two:
“We’ve yet to see virtual worlds really break into the internal corporate environment, but there’s [...]
Pool: the ideal Second Life tie-in opportunity for the ABC
I received a press release from the ABC’s Radio National, who have launched collaborative content creation site called Pool.
It’s a joint initiative between RMIT University, University of Technology Sydney and the University of Wollongong and runs on the open source content management system Drupal. The call is on for people to contribute their words, [...]
Auntie’s Avatars
This week there’s been a flurry of activity by a number of Australian Second Life residents on ABC Island this week. That activity has led to the establishment of a blog and forum, both called ‘Auntie’s Avatars’.
It’s early days with not a lot of content but hopefully it’ll enhance the already active in-world community [...]
