Archive for the 'Virtual Worlds' Category
Eye Gaze Interaction with Virtual Worlds
From NewScientistTech (Web Link).
I’m very much experiencing blogging guilt at the moment. I have a huge list of things to blog about but haven’t had the time recently. Anyway here’s something that caught my eye.
De Montfort University has developed a system which tracks the movemnent of the users eyes and allows them to selct fucntions […]
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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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Integrating photos into 3D worlds
Or as some have put it “Viewfinder: tool for “Flickrizing” Google Earth”
(here) or “A 3-D Viewfinder for a Shoebox of Digital Photos” (here)
Well this is an absolute belter. I would suggest playing the video straight away and then reading the text.
A group of researchers and digital artists at the University of Southern California (USC) has […]
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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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The Warcraft MBA
New study examines how online games can teach business skills.
By Ryan Olson
A little news report on the use of MMORPGs in education.
“The Palo Alto, California-based company, which teamed up with IBM and researchers from Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the study, found that logic and visualization skills, as well as creative thinking […]
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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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