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SXSW: Saturday Parties Were Not to Be Missed!

Posted Mar 23rd 2007 11:54AM by Moo Money
Filed under: Mixed Reality



On Saturday, Twitter was all the rage, even making it into panel jokes and discussions. If you needed something done, Twitter was the place to turn to. I think I received about 200 texts to my phone from just 15 friends. About mid-afternoon, I was getting tired and there wasn't a drop of Redbull in sight. A quick Tweet for help, and BarCampAustin came to the rescue. I was informed that not only did they have Redbull just a block over at Bourbon Rocks, but it was on them!

I arrived just in time to see Cube Linden taking the stage for his presentation about Second Life. During his speech, he mentioned flying penises, so Adri and I headed over to the sex shop about a block away. Once there, we purchased several inflatable phalluses to launch on stage. While in the restroom blowing them up, he ended his presentation. We were devastated, but not for long. We had plenty of drinking to do...

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Just Askin': Are you going to SXSW?

Posted Feb 22nd 2007 12:01AM by Moo Money
Filed under: Mixed Reality, Just Askin'

South by Southwest, or SXSW for short, is rapidly approaching. Scheduled for March 9th-18th in Austin, Texas, it is an annual festival that celebrates music, movies, and web development. Attended by over 10,000 people from all over the world, it is a staple of Austin tourism. It is known for giving bands their big break and panelists major credibility.

Some of our very own Second Life residents will be speaking on panels there, including Spin Martin, Aren Mandala, Hamlet Au, BuhBuhCuh Fairchild, Zero Grace, SnoopyBrown Zamboni, Reuben Tapioca/MillionsofUs, qDot Bunnyhug, Walker Spaight, RC Mars, and Jade Lily. The topics they are covering vary wildly, such as Your Video Blog Can Save the World, Terraforming the Internet: When 3d Models Meet Business Models, Avatar-Based Marketing in Synthetic Worlds, On the Edge of Independant User-Creation in Gamespace, Sex and Computational Technology, Web 2.0 to Web 3D, Gamers Games: Microcontent and User Creation, and American Cancer Society: Applying Technology for the Nonprofit Sector. Other residents rumored to be attending are Max Case, Jeremy Neumann, Glitchy Gumshoe, and myself.

There is a group in Second Life, appropriately named "SXSW'ers". If you are interested in attending and would like to hear about meetups, join that group. For now, I'm just askin' if you're going! Well ... are you?

Wired's A Second Life for MTV now online

Posted Jan 29th 2007 10:23PM by Master Penguin
Filed under: Stories, Odds and Ends

Wired is now carrying its A Second Life for MTV article on its website. I posted about this article last week, as I felt it was worth picking up a copy of the magazine to read. I think it shows some real insight into MTV's online strategy while not sugar coating the follies the company has made along the way.

If you haven't already read the print version and you have a free moment head on over to wired and check out the article. It is another very interesting read from Mark Wallace.

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BBC not making a Virtual World after all

Posted Jan 26th 2007 8:06AM by Master Penguin
Filed under: News, Odds and Ends

Akela previously posted about the BBC's Virtual World for kids, and much like the Hudsucker Proxy no one really understands the genius of the world. Because this Virtual World will not have interaction between players. Actually it apparently isn't a Virtual World at all. According the Mark Wallace of 3PointD, the widespread reports of the Virtual World being developed were false.

So, it will end up being an environment that kids interact with that may or may not have any interaction between players. You know, for kids.

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A Party Darkly

Posted Dec 15th 2006 1:00AM by Akela Talamasca
Filed under: Events


Mark Wallace at 3pointD.com reports that the DVD release of the A Scanner Darkly movie will be celebrated in SL on Dec. 18th, from 6 - 10 PM, SLT. It's not entirely clear who's hosting the event, though it will take place in the Infinite Mind sim, which seems wonderfully appropriate.

I've not seen the movie, nor read the book, though of course as a good geek I've consumed Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? If any place is better equipped to host a Philip K. Dick event than SL, I've not seen it. I mean, just look at that still from the movie: avatar, anyone? I can't make it to this, but if one of you does, drop us a line and let us know how it went!
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SL: The Official Guide release dates

Posted Oct 18th 2006 2:44PM by Akela Talamasca
Filed under: Graphic Design, News

Aimee posted about this before, and it looks like it's that much closer to being a reality. Michael Rymaszewski, along with Wagner James Au (that's Hamlet Au to you), Mark Wallace, Catherine Winters, Cory Ondrejka, and Benjamin Batstone-Cunningham have written the Official Guide to SL. This is available on Amazon for $23.09, and the " ... CD includes special animations, character templates, and textures created by Linden Lab exclusively for this book. The disc also guides new users through the installation and includes a code that grants a special object the first time they enter the metaverse."

This is mighty intriguing ... special object? I'm dying to get my paws on a copy of this book, and I congratulate the authors on its completion, though I notice that its actual publication date seems to vary between websites that offer it for sale. Wiley.com ($34.99) offers a date of December 2006, and bookpool.com ($18.95) says November. Perhaps the printers are experiencing update issues?
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My Adidas!

Posted Sep 18th 2006 6:14PM by Akela Talamasca
Filed under: Shopping, News


Mark Wallace at 3pointD.com reports that footwear maker Adidas has developed an in-world store with the help of Rivers Run Red, a PR agency supporting virtual worlds. Adidas' first virtual product is the a3 Microride, a shoe that gives "the ultimate blend of bounce and flexibility with minimum weight."

What's even better, though, is that the SL version of the shoes actually bounces your avatar around with each step. This is a lot more fun and whimsical an idea than a simple virtual version of the RL shoe could ever be; it's not known whether this idea sprang from Adidas itself or from Rivers Run Red. Regardless, it's this sort of innovation in thought and practice that RL companies need to display more often. I mean, c'mon! It's a world with its own physics! Where's my jetcar, Honda? Where's my in-world listening station, Virgin Records? Where's my virtual PSP, Sony?
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