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The Archives
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02.02.09Change Comes to Washington, and I’m a Week Late: Virtual Worlds inside the BeltwaySomehow Washington and innovation seem like strange bed fellows to me, but there I was last week talking about mirror worlds at a conference hosted by In-Q-Tel for a mix of civil servants and spies or whatever, and found that they asked the kinds of questions that I've been asking and never quite answering: stuff like "what will it take to make the metaverse ubiquitous" or "what does it all mean to human identity". And what felt even stranger to me was that inside the Beltway they actually seemed to "get" virtual worlds, or this little self-selected crew did, and there ...
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07.07.08Review of Twinity from MetaverseFeldspar Epstein at the Metaverse Journal spent some time flitting about in a Beta of Twinity, a VW that bills itself as "a mashup of the real world with the virtual world," and wrote up a review. The post is titled "Twinity - What Is It Good For?" so that should give you an idea of the direction of her opinion. Photo: Metaverse Journal Epstein attempts to give Twinity the benefit of the doubt, finding some pluses in its "lightweight interface" and "convenience." She unfavorably compares it to other VWs due to its user restrictions, lack of content creation tools (!), lack of ...
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