Learning together…
The Project Wonderland development team just found out that development resources will no longer be applied to the project, Sun/Oracle resources that is. However, the avid team plans to keep up the great work they have done so far counting on the open source community. The team wiill soon release Project Wonderland v0.5 Preview Release [...]
This post by Barry Collins for PCPro highlights the author’s adventures in Second Life and the decline of his interest in the virtual world. As many of us when we first get into something new and cool, he a peak of interest which then started to turn into boredom as he experienced and saw more [...]
3D Virtual Worlds for Language Learning
As if Google wasn’t already trying to be the know-it-all and the have-it-all of the Web, now they also try to compete with 3D chat rooms and virtual worlds in this new release in beta phase: Lively – “Chat and interact with your friends in rooms you design.” “Customize your avatar and stream personal photos [...]
Speaking of persuasion power, Handipoints is a clever idea of getting kids’ interest in video games and virtual worlds to get them to do something productive in real life through an “incentive program”. I will not go on an on about how interesting this idea is since Michael Arrington from Techcrunch already wrote a nice [...]
An interview with Aaron Walsh, professor of virtual environments and games for learning at Boston University:
