16 Key Augmented Reality Business Models
16 Key Augmented Realit...
A cross-post from Gary Hayes’s Personalizemedia Site (with permission!) … As promised a more specific ‘commercial’ follow up to my previous post on this topic which was more ’story’ centric. I am developing and producing a range of Augmented Reality...
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Will Shadows increase immersion in Second Life?
Will Shadows increase i...
A cross posting from JustVirtual but there has been lots of excitement about Second Life becoming a more ‘evocative’ engine (visually speaking) for at least 18 months with lots of posts and short demo videos. Recently the Illclan’ers posted an item suggesting we...
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The Browser as Virtual World Final Frontier
The Browser as Virtual ...
As I have mentioned on many of my blogs (especially Personalizemedia) virtual worlds (as 3D navigable spaces) will only really take off when there is an effective, easy to use, existing web browser implementation. We already have early entrants here such as Yoville, Vivaty, NewLively,...
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Extending Entertainment Into Virtual Worlds
Extending Entertainment...
I have talked a lot about Mixed Reality Entertainment on my media blog personalizemedia and how one of the most innovative uses of virtual space is to extend the TV or Film property into a 24/7, participatory environment.  The reason for doing this is to drive traffic to the TV or...
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15 great myth-busting, women vs men stat articles about Games
15 great myth-busting, ...
I was looking for one place on the web that had a list of the mix of male and females across the ‘game/virtual world’ space. I have actually found it useful to quote many of these stats to clients who still believe console games, online ‘quest’ based games...
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Atmospheric Australian Virtual Macbeth
Atmospheric Australian ...
An Australian project (initiated at a 2007 LAMP@AFTRS (Laboratory for Advanced Media Production) residential) called “Macbeth:What If” received further development/production funding from the NMC and the Australia Council. Project creator Kerreen Ely-Harper teamed up with...
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Meta-Mole: To Boldly Go(ogle) where no Search Engine has Gone Before
Meta-Mole: To Boldly Go...
The Metaverse… the Final Frontier. These are the voyages of  Search Engine, Meta-mole. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly google where no search engine has gone before. OK the folks at University of Teeside...
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Thursday’s, One of the Five Must-See-Sites
Thursday’s, One o...
Thursday’s Fictions built in collaboration with Physical TV has received much critical acclaim since its launch in mid 2007 here is a sample first 20 of voluntary comments delivered inworld. If you have Secondlife installed on your machine click this SLURL to go there now One...
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Gary Hayes Creation of ...
From the Telstra media release 9 March 2007 “BigPond enters “Second Life” virtual world – BigPond today launched Australia’s first major corporate presence in the online virtual world, Second Life, with the unveiling of ‘The Pond’. The Pond...
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Designing Experiences 8...
…and the never changing human. Senor Hontar: “We must work in the world. The world is thus.” Father Altamirano: “No Senor Hontar…thus have we made the world. Thus have I made it” Final lines of the film ‘The Mission’ There have been...
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Creating Games in Secon...
Ok the title sounds a little ’space cadet’ and paradoxical but bear with me on this one because the implications go way beyond the focus of this post which is a quick orientation and guide to non-scripted but organised ’social play’ inside a virtual world and...
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