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Perceptive Pixel is a new company formed by Jeff Han, launching, appropriately enough, with a video demo online of its multitouch interface.
Update: I was embedding the video, but could not turn autoplay off, so now I am only linking to it, until I find out how…
Here is the video
Very exciting new possibilities for exploring the [...]

The video of my seminar “Online Worlds And Second Life – Towards The Metaverse” is online on Google Video:

If you can’t see the embedded video above, follow the direct link to it:http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2588190120892764006

The Jesús Rafael Soto exhibit at Gamec, the Gallery of Modern Art in Bergamo, has a nice example of ‘ante literam’ virtual reality in this sphere created by our vision system through colored strings suspended between the floor, and the ceiling. Is there a sphere, isn’t there one?

My seminar “Virtual Worlds And Second Life – Towards The Metaverse” is now available online as a podcast, as held on Berkman Island yesterday. Please subscribe to it with iTunes, or your favorite podcast software. (The logo you see on the top, is a draft for the podcast illustration, and it has its own story, [...]

Thanks to Cathrine, Rebecca, and Ansible Berkman (all SL sisters?) for their precious help in setting everything up in Berkman Island for the seminar, which is in less then 10 hours. I couldn’t have done it without their help. last minute emergencies are universally common. Last minute solutions, are much more difficult to achieve… and [...]

You are welcome to go and take an advance look at the slides that I am going to use with the seminar in the morning session, to be held in Berkman Island of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society of the Harvard Law School:
Uploaded on http://www.slideshare.net/davidorban/online-worlds-and-second-life/

We have added a second morning session at 11AM GMT+1 in English to the seminar next Tuesday, to accomodate the in-world availability of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society of the Harvard Law School, which will be kindly hosting it on Berkman Island in Second Life. Come and join us!

Next tuesday, Jan 16 at 4PM I am speaking at the Crema Campus of the University of Milan about “Virtual Worlds, and Second Life: towards the Metaverse”. Come to chat, pick up one of the streams going to other campuses, or come back to see the recording once it has been uploaded.
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I was attending virtually attending CES in Las Vegas, and MacWorld in San Francisco simultaneously today, and greatly enjoyed the fantastic reporting from Engadget of Steve Jobs’ announcements. You could feel the excitement growing about the “three devices” (iPod, Phone, and Internet), which were really one.

Then I said to myself, let’s drop a call [...]

Just in time for my seminar of Second Life next week at the University of Milan, there are new interesting analyses by Tristan Luis of the economy of the online world. Whether the more pessimistic or optimistic projections of user uptake are the valid ones at the end, and if really many or most users [...]