Archive for the 'Second Life' Category
One Avatar, Many Worlds
This will be useful. Personally I don’t like the avatars in Second Life - I’d rather be represented by an abstract concept.
“DAZ 3D, a company based in Draper, UT, that makes software and models for creating 3-D art, recently announced the MogBox, a program that would allow users to design a high-resolution […]
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Educational Uses of Second Life
Fantastic resource listing a variety of educational uses of (and in) Second Life. Lots of screen shots with a vairty of users ranging from school through to HE.
It is also nicely laid out in categories including: * Distance and Flexible Education * Presentations, Panels and Discussions * Training and Skills Development * Self-paced Tutorials * […]
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Move over Second Life?
Another virtual world platform Croquet is starting to gain a lot of attention. The video below showcases a lot of features.
On the whole it has a similar look and feel to that of Second Life which indicates to me at least a consensus of design and possibly cross platform linking?
Anyway the video highlights a number […]
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Second Life article links
Well I’ve been spring cleaning all the bookmarked articles I have to read and I have a whole bunch on Second Life. At this rate since I’m concentrating on other areas (Google Earth, Google Maps and Flickr at the moment) I’ll wont get round to reading these articles for quite a while.
So I’ve decided to […]
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Watch the World(s)
Posted with permission by Robert Wright.
A Second Life Machinima by Robbie Dringo.
“Ever looked at your favorite painting and wished you could wander inside, to look at it from different perspectives? Spend a single day in one of mine, from early sunrise on a new day, to dusk when lights come on in cosy homes; through […]
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A July 2007 Snapshot of UK Higher and Further Education Developments in Second Life
Okay, so while on the subject of Second Life here’s a snapshot summary of Second Life activity of the UK HE and FE sectors. UH gets a mention courtesy of Andrew Marunchak, but evidently they missed you out Rob? This is via Stephen Downes’s blog post to which the author of the report has added […]
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Blackboard spoof Second Life
Blackboard have made a spoof on Second Life meetings - clumsy avatars, people sitting on tables etc. They seem to miss the point. I attended a library meeting in the UH Second Life last month and was very impressed. Although there was a group in attendance you could wander off and mingle throughout.
Here’s the video. […]
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Building buildings in Second Life
A couple of weeks ago I was musing on the worth of creating buildings in Second Life. There’s too many empty buildings and not enough interaction with the user . Rob Wright emailed me the example below. Watch the first vid before viewing the second and so if you can figure out what’s going on….
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Move over Second Life here comes Entropia
A virtual world is to be set up in China by a partnership involving Sweden-based Entropia Universe. I’m not sure whether users will be able to create objects as in Second Life but it will be a cash-based virtual economy which suggests this is planned. Of note is that it will be designed to handle […]
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Defining and Understanding Virtual Worlds
By Karl M. Kapp
If you want to gen up on virtual worlds and their possible applications to learning this article is good starting point.
Second Life of course gets a mention together with some examples. IBM for instance use it for mentoring and orientating new employees. IBM have more than one island and am currently having […]
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