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Health Beyond 2009 – e-health, Serious Games and Second Life

Posted by Lowell Cremorne on May 6, 2009 · View Comments 

Posted originally over on Metaverse Health:
As a Registered Nurse with a passion for the use of emerging technologies to improve health, it can sometimes be a little frustrating when things don’t seem to progress as fast as one would like. There’s also the ‘they just don’t get it’ phenomenon amongst some in health leadership and [...]

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Realising a virtual worlds industry in Australia

Posted by Lowell Cremorne on March 6, 2009 · View Comments 

Christian Salles, Olivier Lamirault, Serge Soudoplatoff, Jean Michel Billaut and Franck Bellido are five impressive individuals. All from France, they have played various roles in France’s technology sector (their full bios follow at the end of this post) and they intrinisically understand virtual worlds. One (Franck Bellido) developed his company’s Second Life island presence.

Educational [...]

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Merged realities: events and issues for virtual worlds

Posted by Lowell Cremorne on February 6, 2009 · View Comments 

Two of our more popular features each week are our weekly mainstream news roundup, The Watch, and our weekly does of machinima, Weekend Whimsy. The former runs Mondays, the latter Fridays.
We’ve decided to add a new feature that will run in the middle of the week, called Merged Realities. It will be a handful [...]

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Journal of Virtual Worlds Research – it’s here

Posted by Lowell Cremorne on July 3, 2008 · View Comments 

Volume 1, Issue 1 of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research is now available. It contains an extensive collection of research:
Inductive Metanomics: Economic Experiments in Virtual Worlds
Stephen A Atlas
Toward a Definition of “Virtual Worlds”
Mark W Bell
Cityspace, Cyberspace, and the Spatiology of Information
Michael L. Benedikt
Another Time, Another Space: Virtual Worlds, Myths and Imagination
Maria Beatrice Bittarello
Virtual World [...]

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Victorian universities run Second Life event

Posted by Lowell Cremorne on November 11, 2007 · View Comments 

Discover your Second Life is an event hosted by Monash and Swinburne Universities. It’s being held Saturday 17th November at Monash Uni in Caulfield, Victoria.

Registration is required but free.
The speakers arranged are:
Dr. Suku Sinnappan
Gary Hayes
Dr. Mandy Salomon
Jo Kay
Dr. Melissa DeZwart
Debbie McCormick
Glenda McPherson and Malcolm Jolly
Lindy McKeown
Kim Flintoff
Chris Yeoh from IBM

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Smart Internet and business in SL

Posted by Lowell Cremorne on May 21, 2007 · View Comments 

Smart Internet, a joint venture between a range of universities, State Governments and industry, has released a report called ‘Business in Second Life: An Introduction’. Authored by Swinburne University-based Senior Researcher Mandy Salomon, it provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of play in SL for Australian business.

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