After a break, the Metaverse U conference is resuming. During the break, one of the other attendees told me in IM (instant messaging) that he’s blogged about this event, too. There is a panel discussion being introduced now. The panel are Christian Renaud, Chief Architect of Networked Virtual Environments at Cisco Technology Center, Byron Reeves, [...]

Posted in Blended Reality, Conference, Metaverse, SecondLife No Comments »

I’m not going to try to blog the content of the presentations. Those will be posted online soon at the Metaverse U website, so to try to capture it here would be redundant as well as impossible for me. It’s really cool that the chatter in SL is being discussed in the Q&A session following [...]

Posted in Avatar, Blended Reality, Conference, Metaverse, SecondLife No Comments »

The chatter in SecondLife, done in text that everyone within “earshot” (25 meters) can read, makes an interesting backdrop to the speakers on the video screen. It would be rude in RL (Real Life), but it’s customary in SecondLife, and adds a whole new dimension to presentations. The comments, some serious, some joking, in real [...]

Posted in Blended Reality, Conference, Metaverse, SecondLife No Comments »

I’m presently attending a Stanford conference on the metaverse while sitting in my recliner with a cat on my lap in Texas. This is the way to do it! My avatar is sitting in the SciLands “Skyditorium” floating above an island in SecondLife with about 50 other virtual attendees.

Posted in Avatar, Metaverse, SecondLife 2 Comments »

I’ve been aware of this open-source virtual world server application for some time, at least in theory, but haven’t researched it yet. However, through an interesting string of events I just found a blog that discusses installing and using it. I’m going to add this to my link list, it’s so interesting as well as [...]

Posted in Metaverse, QSL, SecondLife No Comments »

Welcome to new media on the go. Exactly what that means will be developed as we go (which is part of the self-referential meaning in itself), but for now I want to talk more about the new media aspect than the on the go part. I just received a couple of new products from Reallusion® [...]

Posted in 3D, Design, Metaverse, Models, Qwaq, SecondLife, Software No Comments »