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What is (not) VR ?
(03/07/10: I know have a proper definition for VR) (19/04/09: Hey people who come directly to this particular post, tell me where do you come from? =) Updates Sorry about the lack of updates, I have lots of…
Read More »Virtual World Has Billions of Residents
Through Terra Nova, a funny article at GameSpot about a new MMO : Real Life. Real life isn’t above reproach. In one of the stranger design decisions in the game, for some reason you have no choice in…
Read More »Fighting the Front
Here are some pictures of the fight in Second Life to get the french extremist party Le FN out. Here’s a story where the pictures come from.
Read More »SecondLife goes opensource
LindenLabs is releasing the source code of the client part of SecondLife under a slightly modified version of the GPL 2.0. This article from CNN.com has more infos : It will leave Linden Lab in control of the…
Read More »Is NeuroNet, a potential Internet for VR, a scam?
This article from Yahoo Biz talks about the creation of a global network dedicated to virtual worlds. Today, virtual worlds such as Second Life, The Sims, Everquest, and World of Warcraft continue to attract legions of followers while…
Read More »SecondLife economy won’t collapse after all (and why I care)
My interest in SecondLife (SL) is for the moment purely as an observer. I have had an account for nearly one year, but hardly log into it. I have yet to find an interest to participate in it,…
Read More »Le FN in Second Life
This article [Fr] states that the extremist right wing french party Le Front National (FN), is the first european party to have a permanent presence, and the first and only official french organisation in Second Life. I find…
Read More »IBM and the Metaverse
For those of you who don’t know what the Metaverse is, I’ll post an article about that later. Briefly, SecondLife is one Metaverse, a “virtual reality-based Internet“. As you may know, more and more big companies start to…
Read More »Laws in Second Life ?
Here’s an article talking about the necessity of laws in SL, which also poses good questions : “Yet the notion of grassroots justice in a virtual world raises a host of serious questions: On what authority would they…
Read More »Second Life facts
From this article where a journalist of The Observer immerges for one week in Second Life : Anshe Chung, Second Life’s richest avatar, owns a property empire on the site worth $250,000 (£137,000) and employs 17 real-life people….
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