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The Archives
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03.12.08Art in Brooklyn/Art in SLJay Newt - aka Jay Van Buren - is an artist currently navigating between a RL art gallery in Brooklyn, NY called Jack The Pelican Presents and a gallery in SL, suggesting what art movements in the virtual community may look like in the future. The event, called Brooklyn Is Watching, runs until March of 2009. People who enter the RL gallery can navigate through his avatar in RL. Podcasts will be broadcast and a blog will keep track of events in the galleries. Visual artists deal with sensation, among other things. What is great about Jay Newt's idea is that it ...
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03.12.08Medical Records Simulation in SLOver at Science Roll, John Norris, a technology expert and graduate candidate in Biomedical Informatics, is interviewed about his experiences attempting to insert electronic medical records into the Ann Myers Medical Center, a virtual hospital housed in SL. The short interview touches on the technological specifics of his work and the advantages of using SL for this type of application. Norris says: "I think it can give a more fuller experience to medical simulations, incorporating medical records, scheduling, and the like while in SL." You can also look at his screen grabs on Flickr.
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03.12.08Workshop for Librarians in SLThe Education Institute, a project of the Ontario Library Association, is holding an online workshop in SL on March 18 at 1 PM ET. The workshop is entitled "A Tour of InfoIsland, Second Life" and is hosted by Jill Hurst-Wahl. It will explore SL for librarians and will show what InfoIsland can do for libraries. Key topics include: What is Second Life & what does it look like? How and why are libraries getting involved? What are the issues relating to this on-line virtual world? What resources are in the InfoIsland Archipelago? Tips for effective use of Second Life for libraries
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03.12.08A Study of a Music Appreciation Course Imported into SLFrom the curiously-named League for Innovation in the Community College - sounds like superheroes being sent to save education! - comes a report entitled "Using Second Life to Enhance Teaching and Learning." The study shows how immersive environments such as SL are helping education. In this case, SL puts students "in" the music and by using interactive quizzes and other educational tools. The study's main thesis is that "developing a humanities oasis in SL fosters the combination of synchronous listening and discussion with the rich world of the humanities that surrounds the music." The author then goes on to describe the successes ...
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03.12.08SL in 3D: 2 Cool!A blogger who writes about the "counter rhetoric, objections, debunkery and stupid shit on many things Second Life" brings to our attention the development of 3D glasses for SL. Linden Labs has deemed the hardware, created by computer specialist at the University of Michigan, so useful that it may build the functionality into the SL viewer. The goggles are traditional bicolor stereovision glasses. Read the original report at the Detroit Free Press. Starting to feel like the year of the gadget rather than the year of the virtual world.
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03.10.08Mitch Kapor Bringing 3D Cameras to Second LifeMinority Report is the inspiration for creating 3D cameras that will initiate a new tipping point for virtual worlds, according to Mitch Kapor. I recently reported on this development, linking over to an employee's blog post where he stated the project's aim: The objective of the project is to dramatically change the way users interact with online virtual worlds. The online world (or metaverse or MMO or whatever you want to call it…) in question for this project being, of course, Second Life. Meanwhile, Mitch spoke about the project, coverage of which on CNET included the following rather provocative image: "So, if I ...
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03.09.08New 60,000L Contest and Bug WinnersThe animated "Buzzy Bug" by Lostmedia Ares won the recent insect competition with the quality of entries proof of the deep talent in Second Life...some contestants entering their first real 'builds' and others more experienced submitting whimsical creations or insects with incredibly detailed prim work. I'm also announcing a new contest with a 60,000L first prize. Pick up details and view the insect competition winners in-world.
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03.07.08Just a thoughtHome-made ray-tracing over a weekend takes a few lines of c++ code and starts with this: Continue Reading...
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03.06.08Montage a GoogleCreate a montage from Google image search. Here's the result for Second Life:
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03.06.08Keyboard-Free Second LifeAn open source engineering manager and blogger writes that his company, Kapor Enterprises, Inc., is working on a new application for virtual worlds that will remove the keyboard and mouse from SL use. To replace these tools, the project (code-named Segalen) will look to 3D cameras that will monitor movement, color, depth and distance. The author writes that the 3D navigation is in an advanced stage and has been demoed successfully for KEI. The state of the project is summed up in the author’s own words: “I completed the whole navigation UI: walk, turn, fly, jump, crouch, etc… It’s really cool and demos ...
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