Troy McConaghy, who in SecondLife™ is known as Troy McLuhan, gave his presentation about “science stuff” in SecondLife tonight for the Serious SL in Boulder Meetup group. This blended reality event was primarily a SecondLife event projected into real life via projected computer images.

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I was just watching the video of Rep. Ed Markey’s committee hearing yesterday about virtual worlds, during which Philip Rosedale (CEO of Linden Lab, creator of SecondLife®) and others testified. Rosedale showed a machinima that included images of several parts of the International Spaceflight Museum (ISM), of which I am a co-founder and CEO. That’s [...]

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An interesting online-only conference starts in a few days:

While their claim to be the only online conference is a bit inaccurate, it still seems like a worthwhile way to spend some time for those of us interested in the development of the metaverse.

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In a recent post, I promised a link to the proceedings from a NCOIC session on Networked Virtual Environments. Bob Marcus just sent this info to the Serious SecondLife in Boulder meetup group with the link:

The Proceedings of the recent NCOIC Session on Networked Virtual Environments are available at http://semanticommunity.wik.is/Adaptable_Computing_Infrastructure (middle of the page). [...]

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I was just following some links found in advance slides from an NCOIC conference that’s taking place on Feb. 26th in Denver, when I clicked a link in one of the sites and stumbled across information about a project New Media Consortium (NMC) has announced. They are embarking on a 2-year collaboration with Sun Microsystems [...]

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The Virtual Worlds preservation workshop at Stanford, funded by the Library of Congress’ NDIIPP, is over now. Partner institutions besides Stanford are University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Maryland and Rochester Institute of Technology. I attended via Skype conference call with text chat on the side, augmented with a dynamically-updated Google Doc page where [...]

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After the Metaverse U conference for the past two days you’d think I was ready to take a rest or maybe get some real work done, but no! Today and tomorrow I’m participating (remotely, via Skype conference call) in a workshop with some of the same people at Stanford. This time, we’re working with the [...]

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During the break I’ve been catching up on email. One of the messages waiting for me was from Erica Driver of Forrester Research, whom I’d met at a previous blended reality event with a different group. She had done a presentation about a research report Forrester had recently published that she worked on. She [...]

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I’m at the Metaverse U conference again today, but I’ve been participating in text side chatter in SecondLife instead of blogging about it. We had quite a discussion about the way this event has been presented in world, which I’ll try to summarize later when I have chance to review my chatlog about it. [...]

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Here are some links I’ve found to people who are blogging about the Metaverse U conference this weekend. I’ll edit this post to add more as I stumble across them. I met several other people at the conference site in SecondLife who said they are blogging about it, but until I see a post [...]

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