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The Archives
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07.26.093D youTubeGrab your 3D glasses kids and have a look: Details on the exploratory youTube feature can be found on the Google forums, and were picked up by TechCrunch. OK, hardly a virtual world, but the appetite for anything 3D continues to grow (and just wait, because James Cameron's Avatar hasn't even started to promote yet).
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01.18.09RealXtend Adds You Tube VideosQuick link: The Rex Files highlights the ability to import youTube videos into RealXtend. What's nice about this is that the videos are brought into the virtual environment via Flash, and that as far as I know there are no "media limits" in realXtend as there are in Second Life. In other words, you could have a video pavillion or wall or whatever with an unlimited number of video streams.
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07.18.08Small Worlds, Small Minds: How Brands Have Sucker-Punched Virtual WorldsThe brand agenda has siphoned talent from the metaverse to create the equivalent of commercial candy, throwing a sucker punch at the idea of virtual worlds without even knowing it's doing it. It's OK, corporate collaboration and education can fill the gap, right? It's the teachers who advance society not Coke, although it's not for lack of trying - yesterday's vending machine in the cafeteria is today's Coke ad in Habbo Hotel or wherever, someday we'll insist it's packed with fruit drinks instead of sugared water, although by then our kid's hands will be so chubby they can barely wrap their ...
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07.08.08While Second Life Teleports, Vivaty Gives a WidgieVivaty announced that it now offers users of Facebook and AIM the ability to host Vivaty Scenes on their social networking profiles, thus becoming a 3D virtual widget in a Web 2.0 world. Heralding the golden age of the chatty Web, the Vivaty blog reminds us that we are ALL immersed: The signs of a more immersive web are all around us: we wake up every day to more media sharing APIs, more “live” and self-expression options on IM clients, and more visual depth being added to profiles on even the most simply-designed sites like Facebook. The web is getting more ...
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07.04.08Second Life Second Only to YouTube and FacebookWhile new user growth may be stalled, while retention rates may be dropping or flat, and while the 'golden age' of Nike and CSI and BMW may be over for Second Life - it still ranks as the third fastest growing Web-based site according to tracking powerhouse Nielson, at least in the UK, behind only youTube and Facebook in total user minutes. Data from the Lab shows a similar trend. As Hamlet Au reported over on New World Notes that: "Most concerning for the Lindens, the total number of Premium accounts (Residents who pay a recurring subscription of $6-9.95 a month, depending ...
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06.25.08Microsoft’s Surface Table Surfaces in VegasElaine Alhadeff writes a post on the implementation of Microsoft's new Surface tables at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Surface is the company's tabletop game/social networking/drink ordering initiative. It's kind of like the iPhone in terms of touch-screen usability, only the surfaces are bigger, with the surface built into a 30-inch flat screen and the ability to move items around using fingertips. At the Vegas hotel, the tables are used "to order drinks, watch YouTube videos, play touch-screen games and even flirt with each other." Anne-Marie Roussel, who manages the Entertainment portfolio at Microsoft ...
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