Hello, goodbye and a new project!

It’s alive! Well sort of :) Ever since I finished my research I must confess my interest in virtual worlds has taken a rather dramatic nose-dive. I was seeing a lot of ‘noise’ and very little progress. Maybe I got impatient, maybe after a year of reading paper after paper and blog after blog on virtual [...]

Dan Farber asks the tough questions

In a recent interview with ZDnet, Linden Lab’s VP, platforms & technology Joe Miller get to show the corporate face of Second Life. A platform for collaboration for companies such as IBM and… well… IBM. Though the interview itself is not all that remarkable, I did get excited when Dan Farber asked the tough question: Dan [...]

There.com beats sluggish Linden Lab

In August Linden Lab announced their intentions to build SLim. Though specifics are still unclear, it is likely to be a ‘light client’ - filtering the social functions such as instant messaging from the full experience of Linden Labs main virtual world Second Life. This to create a more smooth, more accessible social platform, and [...]

The Augmented Magic Mirror

More blending of the real and virtual. While virtual worlds tend to emphasize their digital nature, augmented reality will do anything to hide its bits and bites background by blending almost seamlessly into reality. One of the most interesting applications of this augmented (or projected) reality was recently showcased by the Fraunhofer Institute. Gizmodo: The best [...]

Edwards Invention

‘Whether it’s casting magic spells using your mind or relaying expressions in real time, EmoKey links the Emotiv technology to your applications by easily converting detected events into any combination of keystrokes. EmoKey is a nonintrusive, lightweight, background process that runs behind your existing games or applications. EmoKey lets you create profiles that define how [...]