What is Involvium?
That's the question I asked myself after receiving a tip from someone named JS Tomorrow. I was led to this site, where I read about an expedition with Magellan Linden, in which an avatar named Phinneus Darcy discovered an unknown type of energy he named Involvium. The whole site is rather mysterious, and I can't for the life of me figure out what's going on. I leave it to our more astute readers to suss this out and report back to me.
(Thanks, JS ... I think)
Reader Comments
(Page 1)2. This is one perfect example of something that I'm not going to check out. Everything on their site and every blog post about that stuff screams "READ ME, CHECK ME OUT, JOIN IN TO THE VIRAL MARKETING WAVE!!!".
I hate to be manipulated so I won't be. I won't even be guessing what this is about, because I don't care and in case it really matters I'll be reading about it anyway soon.
Posted at 4:46AM on Aug 22nd 2007 by Juliet Ceres
3. It's been fun. Thank you Infinite Vision Media for the distraction. I no longer think it involves Havok. I Don't know what it is, but I feel certain it does not involve Linden Labs. I could, however, be wrong.
Posted at 6:14AM on Aug 22nd 2007 by shadowen silvera
4. if they spent as much time fixing Second life as they do in discovering new crap to ad to the list of pointless buggy shite.... sorry, what are we discussing again?
Posted at 7:24AM on Aug 22nd 2007 by Loki Eliot
6. oooo, So thats what all of LL's web devs do.....
Posted at 4:20AM on Aug 23rd 2007 by trinity_dejavu
7. That's a bunch of bullshit. They stole that image from Star Trek TNG... that's a picture of the Nexus in the movie.
Posted at 11:38AM on Aug 22nd 2007 by Doubledown Tandino
9. /me blinks
/me blinks again totally confused as to what the hell this is all about.
/me thinks it is one of 3 things.
1. An actual promotion for a product or service; though, for the life of me, I have no clue what it it.
2. An example of someone's advertising course thesis (advertise something that doesn't really exist?)
3. Totally irrelivant bullshit.
/me returns to his regularily scheduled program
Posted at 2:06PM on Aug 22nd 2007 by Johnny Rambler
10. Oh good. Something else the Lindens can say went wrong with the grid now?
"[10:09 AM PDT] Operations is investigating a disruption to in-world Search, related services, teleports, IMs, chat, sound, walking, attachments going up your butt, rezzing anything at all, and the complete disappearance of all your L$ and land. We think it has something to do with the amazingly new and exciting Involvium Crystals (TM) update we've been told "teh community" loves so much. We’ll keep you posted. Don't call us, we'll call you."
*chuckles, joking*
Posted at 4:06PM on Aug 22nd 2007 by Ketter McAllister
11. "Involvium" just sounds like something that belongs on that list... http://www.secondlifeinsider.com/2007/08/21/rl-to-sl-business-5-rules/
12. is it just me or is the satellite in the beginning of the video ont he first page singin "work it harder, make it..." from Daft Punk's "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" ?
and now, some guesses about what this is about:
* new physics engine
* windlight
* open source server
* connection to other metaverses
* mono
* end of the "energy" thing for physical scripts
Posted at 6:16PM on Aug 22nd 2007 by TigroSpottystripes Katsu
14. Hi Akela, I shared a little bit more today in my blog about involvium crystals and how it interacts with the energy that permeates through the metaverse. (please don't sue me, Lucas! it's not The Force! hahaha)
http://jstomorrow.blogspot.com/2007/08/involvium-and-mysterious-metaverse.html
Posted at 8:52AM on Aug 23rd 2007 by J. S. Tomorrow
15. "Involvium Energy Ventures", "JS Tomorrow", and "involvium" are all fictional.
It's just a marketing campaign for Infinite Vision Media changing their name - http://secondtense.blogspot.com/2007/08/cats-out-of-bag-with-involve.html
The Metaverse Messenger has a front page article with all the details - http://metaversemessenger.com/pdf/2007/08/MM20070821.pdf
A bit of creative marketing, but nothing mysterious about it.













1. havok
Posted at 4:47AM on Aug 22nd 2007 by shadowen silvera