The Reuters bureau in Second Life has now released a new version of their RSS reading NewsHUD. Packed with loads of cool features for discussing current stories and the ability to customise your RSS feeds. NOt on that, but they have now added a ‘BLOGHUD’ tab. You can set it to […]
Rezzing soon to a visual cortex near you, Neuronet is preparing to launch next year.
Set up by the IAVRT - “The International Association of Virtual Reality Technologies (IAVRT) is a not-for-profit professional organization dedicated to fostering scientific research and business development in the area of Virtual Reality (VR) technology for the benefit of society.” - […]
Wow. It only seems like yesterday when we hit 1 million!
For Vista, when it comes out, here’s an app/widget from Microsoft called UniveRSS.
UniveRSS is a showcase application that demonstrates the use of several WPF features, 3D animations, data binding, and data visualization. Currently UniveRSS uses the RSS Feed Store managed through Internet Explorer 7. Later versions will allow you to manage the Feed Store from […]
That graph looks pretty impessive huh? It shows the US Dollars spent in Second Life over last 24 hours at $1,726,930 as of 9:00am PST today (10th Nov 2006).
Well, it turns out that something many people has thought is true - the daily dollar amount which Linden Lab tout as spent is actually (simply) total […]
Yet another virtual world to add to the smorgasbord: MultiVerse is a system of 3D virtual world clients and servers which you can build and support yourself - eventually. They have just opened up the beta for all to test.
They say:
Participate in the game industry’s most exciting frontier.
Make a complete MMOG or virtual world […]
Well, well, well. This looks familiar Kaneva is another virtual world network in the works. I haven’t heard of this one before. It will be interesting to see what features and capabilities for customisation, learning and earning there is to be had here. Hmmm….
According to blogHUD user Dedric Mauriac, a version of the TV show ‘Deal Or No Deal’ has hit the metaverse, called ‘Take It Or Leave It’
Great idea!!
Dedric is also building a Wheel of Fortune (I think ) in SL too!
Just found this great video of a a presentation (wmv) from Linden Labs’ Cory Ondrejka (Cory Linden) and Jim Purbrick (Babbage Linden) from the Microsoft Lang.NET Conference in August - called ‘Building Reality : User-Creation and Scripting in Second Life’.
It’s mostly the slides and audio, but well worth it for the introduction into SL from […]
I can’t promise this will be on all the time, as it was a quick test idea that I have thought about for a few months and got round to doing once I got more memory for the MacMini (running Windows).
Let’s see how this holds up - this blog doesn’t get many readers, so off […]