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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Can Virtual Worlds Save TV ?
Can Virtual Worlds Save...
What may save TV may also truly grow Social Virtual Worlds. As online audiences continue to ignore TV and vanilla/social virtual worlds suffer from a lack of direction, perhaps the marriage of the two will save both from irrelevancy? A report by Gary Hazlitt in various TV branded...
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CNN Puts it’s Foot Down in Second Life
CNN Puts it’s Foo...
I received an email from Karen iReport (Second Life name obviously) that CNN have now moved on from a small ‘hub’ presence in Second Life and onto their own island – which now includes a ‘classic’ automotive theme. It is great to see a positive growth...
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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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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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Why Create Marketing Machinima?
Why Create Marketing Ma...
Social Media and Web 2.0 is a lot about providing the tools and therefore the means for everyone to create content, that they believe others may want to see. I have personally created a lot of corporate, professional entertainment and music films over the years using high end equipment...
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Global Investment in Virtual Worlds
Global Investment in Vi...
…and a little end of 2008 Virtual Worlds, State of Play… it has been suggested several times recently that games & social virtual worlds especially will really suffer in this economic downturn and may not survive. Which leads to the point of this post to put things...
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Virtual Worlds 2008 Video Tour
Virtual Worlds 2008 Vid...
As part of a commercial report on the evolving range of social virtual worlds I recently ventured into fifty plus worlds to sample the creative, business and educational potential. My video is an indicative capture of each world/environment as a seven minute video for 2008 posterity....
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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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Talk Transcript: Opport...
NOTE: Based on my sticky post ‘The Brand Owners Guide to Joining the Metaverse“. As promised a rough transcript of my keynote talk to CeBit last week based on my experience of actually building some Second Life sims, talking to those who use them and creating branded environments...
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13 tips Companies Engaging with 3D Worlds
13 tips Companies Engag...
or thirteen commandments for organisations considering becoming stars in the new web 3.0 revolution… Originally posted here on one of Gary’s other blogs personalizemedia. I have mentioned before that I am currently working on a couple of major and one or two minor media...
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Web 3.0 The Alive Web...
I have posted prolifically about MUVE’S (Multi User Virtual Environments) in the past, concentrating mainly on the ever customisable Second Life. It is interesting to watch the buzz spreading and consider if virtual worlds are really web 3.0, I think so. A quick look at the...
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