Comments on: Interesting microsoft virtual world developments? http://eightbar.co.uk/2008/09/29/interesting-microsoft-virtual-world-developments/ Raising The Eight Bar Thu, 10 May 2012 17:04:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.3 By: Kayla A. http://eightbar.co.uk/2008/09/29/interesting-microsoft-virtual-world-developments/comment-page-1/#comment-242197 Tue, 26 May 2009 02:08:25 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/?p=609#comment-242197 awesome blog

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]]> By: Anthony L. http://eightbar.co.uk/2008/09/29/interesting-microsoft-virtual-world-developments/comment-page-1/#comment-242193 Tue, 26 May 2009 01:56:03 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/?p=609#comment-242193 nice website layout

]]> By: Zach K. http://eightbar.co.uk/2008/09/29/interesting-microsoft-virtual-world-developments/comment-page-1/#comment-242192 Tue, 26 May 2009 01:55:48 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/?p=609#comment-242192 cool article

]]> By: The Virtual Games http://eightbar.co.uk/2008/09/29/interesting-microsoft-virtual-world-developments/comment-page-1/#comment-242118 Tue, 05 May 2009 19:17:12 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/?p=609#comment-242118 Virtual pets and toys market is growing. It’ll be even more powerfull in the future.

]]> By: UgoTrade » Blog Archive » Tim O’Reilly: “Instrumenting the World” http://eightbar.co.uk/2008/09/29/interesting-microsoft-virtual-world-developments/comment-page-1/#comment-241123 Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:19:23 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/?p=609#comment-241123 […] Ian Hughes, IBM, notes in a recent post on Eightbar: The last few days have seen a plethora of virtual world pitches, reports, articles and blog posts […]

]]> By: Virtual world watcher http://eightbar.co.uk/2008/09/29/interesting-microsoft-virtual-world-developments/comment-page-1/#comment-240993 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:17:46 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/?p=609#comment-240993 David, to reply on your comment, AI in virtual worlds is just starting to exist. A company developed a virtual pet (dog) that completely is beyond nintendogs for example. This virtual pet already functions on the multiverse platform where it was developed in first instance and if I am correct is currently being worked on to be compatible with RealXtend and should become to opensim as well in the future. The company who made the virtual pet which can be trained, evolves in skill as the owner of the pet spends time with it is going to be open sourced. This will be a first example of AI inside a virtual world. Things like this still have a long way to go but they will become possible and new technical solutions will come out of them.

I looked it up for you, the company is Novamente you can read more about AI here http://technology.newscientist.com/article/mg19726495.700-virtual-pets-can-learn-just-like-babies.html

]]> By: David M. Chess http://eightbar.co.uk/2008/09/29/interesting-microsoft-virtual-world-developments/comment-page-1/#comment-240900 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:20:12 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/?p=609#comment-240900 As both an AI enthusiast and an AI skeptic 🙂 I would love to see even one example of a usefuli AI-powered avatar in some virtual world somewhere. The closest I’ve ever seen just puts out a pre-canned paragraph when someone utters any of the corresponding pre-chosen keywords in its hearing; very “A”, not at all “I”, and no more useful than a “click here for more information” menu.

It’s great fun to talk about using AI in virtual worlds, but it’s not going to work until we can actually do AI. 🙂 And we can’t yet.

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