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04.05.08Is the Metaverse Less Real if Madison Avenue Says It Ain’t? (Report from the Virtual Worlds Conference)The Virtual World Conference was a sort of giddy hallucination for me, never having been before, and maybe I'm LUCKY (based on other reports) that it's a bit more somber and less gushing than past events. Everything feels a bit more gray these days, constant drizzle in New York (gave me a cold) and all these "bad vibes man" coming from Wall Street and Main Street and CNN, but for me it was a thrill to see the Lindens, and Philip, who was looking well barbered and tanned in his Neko collar and visionary vision, all the Californians seemed to ...
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09.17.07Future WorldsThe land rush to create an open source metaverse continues - it's interesting to imagine how many microworlds there will be, but then in some ways we already know - Second Life contains as many microworlds as users, it seems, but instability on the grid, and a move to make the space more 'business friendly' has left the early explorers disillusioned. Once the casinos are gone, the grid is stable, age verification is in place (and all that X-rated 'fun stuff' parcelled off behind closed prims), and there's nothing left to complain about and little illicit fun to be had ...
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- Accounting for Human Nature: Anthropology, Academia and Virtual Worlds
- Quick Quote: Philipism
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- This is What Virtual Worlds Feel Like (to Me)
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- Balance Disorders Aided by Virtual Rehab
- This World Stinks: Adding Sense to Virtual Worlds
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