Archive for January, 2007

Great video of coming multitouch interfaces

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

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 ...

Video of my seminar “Online Worlds And Second Life - Towards The Metaverse”

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

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

Virtual reality from the ’60s

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

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?

Podcast of the Second Life seminar

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

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 ...

Everything ready on Berkman Island, with great help from the locals

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

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 ...

I put online the slides for the seminar on Berkman Island

Monday, January 15th, 2007

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/

Berkman Center of Harvard Law School hosts my seminar in-world

Saturday, January 13th, 2007

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 ...

Seminar on Virtual Worlds, and Second Life

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

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 ...

I just scored one through virtual conferencing!

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

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 ...

New economic analysis on Second Life draws wrong mobile phone analogy

Monday, January 8th, 2007

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 ...