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• 11.16.08
  MIT Prof Aims to Bridge Real and Virtual Worlds Deep Thoughts, Second Life, Virtual World Platforms | (1)

  Linden Lab is on a "benefit reality" thing, lately - it's in keeping with their mission, I guess, to improve humanity, although I figure they should leave that until they've benefited the first hour, or stopped my viewer from crashing every 30 minutes (why was I crash free for 6 months and now I crash every ten minutes? Time to use Imprudence I guess). Philip has been waxing philosophical about the virtues of, um, electricity. And the Lab has been supporting research at MIT in which a bridge between the virtual and the real can pump life into what the ...

  Tagged: Cross Reality, Joe Paradiso, Josh Lifton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, X-Reality
  

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