Jan 8
Second Life News for January 8, 2008
From: Tech Talk CES gadget: Sandio launches a 3-D mouse Quote from the site - I started seeing these 3-D navigation devices a year or two ago. They let you maneuver a mouse through a 3-D space. Sandio Technology is announcing today its own twist on the genre, the 3D Internet Mouse. You can use it to quickly navigate in any direction in a 3-D space, such as Google Earth or Microsoft’s Virtual Earth. If you’re in Second Life, you use this mouse to fly through the world without using a keyboard.
From: UgoTrade Interoperability for Virtual Worlds in 2008? Quote from the site - The emergence of many forms of virtual worlds will be a notable trend in 2008. But Second Life as the largest and most highly developed user generated, 3D immersive world will continue to blaze the trail for the most world changing potential for virtual worlds - collapsing geography.
From: Dad2059’s Blog of Science Fiction/Science Fact and Random Acts of Weirdness ‘Second Life’ to keep Mars crews company Quote from the site - I’m wondering about that pesky light-speed time delay myself. The explanations NASA gives doesn’t make much sense to me. I can understand the email message concept, sending packets of images that consolidate into the Second Life environment so the sender avatar can give long, loving and maybe pornographic images, but nothing that can approximate real time.
From: Virtual Worlds News Turkish Companies on the Rise in Second Life for 2008 Quote from the site - Vestel led the way into Second Life for Turkish companies with Remax, Rixos, Garanti Emeklilik, and Tefken following suit. About 10 more firms are already planning on entering the virtual world in 2008, reports the Turkish Daily News. Companies like AcerPro and the Brand Institute have established their own developers’ niche to help meet the increasing desire to come in world.
From: Wired Blog Network Feature: Game|Life’s Predictions (And Advice) For 2008 Quote from the site - 2007 was a crazy time for the videogame industry. Maybe we can put all that behind us as we stride boldly into 2008. With the console wars pretty much settled, spread out before us is a smörgåsbord of software sure to please the owners of every console.
From: New World Notes The Second Life of Africa Quote from the site - Based in South Africa, Virtual Africa is a project from Uthango, an NGO that seeks to become “a gateway for Africans into virtual worlds, and specifically into Second Life, as a starting point”– evidently, the first of its kind for the continent.
From: My Infocalypse Even before my EA/Second Life acqusition theory, came this curveball Quote from the site - Game developer Electronic Arts (EA) is on my research radar lately (especially in regards to sports titles), and a funny thing happened to me on the way to my EA/Linden Lab “acquisition post”— people chimed in on a different issue.
From: Second Life Blog [RESOLVED] Second Life forums temporarily disabled Quote from the site - Hi everyone,The servers hosting the Second Life forums are literally being moved today, meaning the Second Life forums will be unavailable from 1:30-3:30pm SLT.
From: UC Riverside Newsroom Second Life Offers Second Chance for Real Life Players Quote from the site - UC Riverside’s eLab City development in Second Life allows people to be someone else in another world while researchers study consumer behavior. In the first half of 2008, consumers can make a new life for themselves in an online community offered through eLab City at UCR’s Sloan Center.
From: Information Week Join Us For GridTalk Tuesday With Intel’s Stephen Fischer Quote from the site - Join us in Second Life or on the Web for a live talk with Intel (NSDQ: INTC)’s Stephen Fischer, senior principal engineer, Intel Corp. Fischer will talk about Intel’s desktop processor strategy and technology, including the brand-new Penryn processor.
From: Network World Does Al-Qaeda need a Second Life? Quote from the site - Bad things can happen in Second Life. Just ask presidential candidate John Edwards–whose virtual campaign site was defaced–or the owners of American Apparel–whose virtual store was bombed and invaded by armed avatars who shot and injured several virtual customers.
From: DC Spensley’s SkyDancer’s “Second Spring” into Life Quote from the site - I was lucky (now as official documenter/machinimatographer for the SkyDancers) to have been at the dress rehearsal and premier of this groundbreaking new show by DanCoyote’s troupe and created this trailer to help get those virtual bums on seats.
From: Express Hospitality A parallel life Quote from the site - Brick and mortar hotels cannot get more tangible than this. They have already gone beyond merely being accommodation providers with a singular purpose of bed nights.
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