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By: eightbar » Blog Archive » More press for IBM in virtual worlds

eightbar » Blog Archive » More press for IBM in virtual worlds — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:18:59 +0000

[…] Both the BBC piece and the story from Reuters’ embedded journalist were outcomes of the busy day I had last week. […]

By: Esther

Esther — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:01:28 +0000

heya,

Cheers for the comments. There’s a copy of my paper up on my weblog which should have all the quotes I used on the slides embedded in it.

http://www.whatalovelywar.co.uk/glodnepix/2006/10/my_so_called_se.html

By: Roo

Roo — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:14:24 +0000

Sorry Gauti. Didn’t want to mis-represent you. Thank you for clearing that up.

By: What’s Next? » Blog Archive » NMK conference: “My so-called 2nd life”

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:03:56 +0000

[…] So, the NMK event was fun. I’ve done a longish writeup about it on Eightbar already, which I won’t repeat here. […]

By: Mobil Avenue » Blog Archive » The Times They Are a-Changin’

Mobil Avenue » Blog Archive » The Times They Are a-Changin’ — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:12:21 +0000

[…] NMK’s half day conference titled My So Called Second Life in Soho yesterday has generated quiet alot of chatter this morning. Holding the event within the spiritual home of the UK advertising industry shows that SL has jumped the shark. Alan Patrick and Roo Reynolds share their respective thoughts after the event. […]

By: Gauti

Gauti — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:30:36 +0000

Excellent summary of the event, Roo – and a pleasure to meet you at My So-called 2nd Life.

Just a small correction regarding my own presentation: I do think Second Life can be used for education purposes. There’s already very interesting e-learning activity going on there, and I’m all for it. My point was simply that there is a large gap in the e-learning market that is not filled by SL or any similar platform right now.

I fundamentally like Second Life as a participant, but in the presentation I used it (and WebCT) as examples to show what some of the opportunities and challenges are right now for software developers interested in creating a 3D environment that is accessible and lightweight enough to use in mainstream education and training.

In that sense I’m more interested in what Second Life could become than what it currently is – both technically and politically. That’s why it was very encouraging to hear Jim Purbrick (Babbage Linden) talk about the potential open source future of the system, possibilities of integrating it into Firefox extensions, etc.