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June 13th, 2008
The Archives
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06.13.08HP Insights and the Geographic Challenges of Second LifeHP is all over virtual worlds. Or Phil McKinney of the Personal Systems Group is anyways. Nice little post about how the future will unfold, including the comment that the combination of virtual worlds and new desktop devices will give rise to "intelligent avatars (who) would be able to represent them both in conferences and in virtual worlds." A hint at what the shopping malls in SL of tomorrow have in store comes by way of 3D printers: Gartner vice president Roger Fulton said that 3D printing will not only speed up product design, but lead individuals to set up micro-manufacturing plants, ...
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06.13.08Second Life Teaching Yesterday’s News, and the Sun RisesThere's nothing like meat space for nuance, conversations on the bus, the level of applause in an audience or lack of it - and at the New Media Consortium conference its been no different - maybe once we're all walking around with expressive avatars or Emotiv headsets or whatever, we'll be able to give off that body language that you can only really feel by being there, and at Princeton this year the body language is a sort of collective foot shuffle when it comes to Second Life. OK...well, first, this is anecdotal. It's not like I ran around taking a ...
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