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Thinkbalm just published this short but informative guide on immersive software for the enterprise. A recommended read for those looking for an overview of solutions in virtual world solutions out there. From Thinkbalm’s announcement we have: “The Enterprise Immersive Software Decision-Making Guide was designed to help business decision makers recognize and adapt to the challenges [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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The Media Grid Immersive Education Initiative led by Aaron Walsh from the Boston University has been on the cutting edge of virtual environments experiments for a learning purpose. They hold constant meetings in Second Life, have been experimenting with different virtual worlds and not was Wonderland’ turn for a more “official” educational event run by [...]
In this blog post Nicole invites Timothy Wright, a Ph.D. candidate from University of Notre Dame, to write a post about his research interest in Project Wonderland and Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) from a security and data storage perspective. His research project has driven him to come up with different “privileges” and status for users [...]
This is a great project and here is a post on their efforts to establish Wonderland as a learning tool. Keep up the good work guys!
