At the Virtual Worlds Forum so much has happened really that it will take still many posts to get it all out of my head, if ever. Much quicker then me, because of course it is their job, and also they’ve got to move on to other assignments, journalists, and pro bloggers are giving a [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Documentary about online worlds: “Inside The Metaverse”
October 30th, 2007
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Last week in London I sat down for about an hour of great chat as I was filmed by director Steven Dhoedt of Visual Antics and his crew for his feature documentary “Inside The Metaverse“. I was very pleased with his questions, and hope that my answers were meaningful. Steven is now going to produce [...]
Immmersive Second Life platform: Real 2nd Life!
October 29th, 2007
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At the Laboratory of Eidomatics of the University of Milan, in cooperation with Eximia, the RFID company, a new interface has been developed for visualizing Second Life environments, and interacting with them. See a video about Real 2nd Life! Real 2nd Life an integrated system composed of a semi-circular screen, of almost 3 meters high, [...]
XMediaLab meeting in London
October 26th, 2007
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Brendan Harkin, Director of X|Media|Lab, kindly invited my to participate in the first European XMediaLab meeting of this new technology think-tank.
Liveblogging the Virtual Worlds Forum – Day 2 – Afternoon
October 25th, 2007
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I have been continuously giving demos of the immersive Second Life setup, and talking about Second Life analytics suite, etc. Thanks to Tishe for pulling lots of interesting people in to see the stuff I was showing! 14:30 Bjorn from HiPiHi is talking about their world, to be released in Q1 2008, and takes a [...]
Liveblogging the Virtual Worlds Forum – Day 2 – Morning
October 25th, 2007
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09:00 A presentation by BP was, I am sorry to say, impossible to follow. 09:30 Paul Ledak from IBM is speaking on interoperability. His introduction setting the stage is longish, I wonder if he is actually going to say something concrete. The announcement that Linden and IBM made in San Jose has been met by [...]
Liveblogging the Virtual Worlds Forum – Day 1 – Afternoon
October 24th, 2007
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13:50 Lunch was very good. Just finger food, so nobody had to sit, and could keep shaking hands, and gesturing. I have to start preparing for my panel, so I don’t know how long I will be able to keep writing at this time. 14:10 Kidalicious panel. “Are kids and teenagers the future for virtual [...]
Liveblogging the Virtual Worlds Forum – Day 1 – Morning
October 24th, 2007
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I am in London, about to speak at Virtual Worlds Forum (just realizing that I won’t be able to blog live too much while speaking!), and will try to cover as much as possible of the event, with reporting, photos, and more. This post is going to be updated for some time, then I will [...]
Couldn’t liveblog at the World Business Forum, but twittered
October 23rd, 2007
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There were a lot of very good speakers at the World Business Forum, and I was glad to be able and attend some of the sessions, and also to mingle with the other speakers. I met Eisner, from Disney, Chizen of Adobe, Perez of Kodak, Ray Kurzweil, and Colin Powell, well, of Kleiner Perkins, he [...]
Speaking at the Virtual Worlds Forum in London
October 21st, 2007
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I will be speaking at the Virtual Worlds Forum in London. “From e-tail to v-business: are virtual goods an entirely new category” * What are virtual goods and how is the sector growing? * Understanding the consumer motivation for virtual goods * Is v-business the bright new shiny business model? * Can you bridge the [...]
