From Techcrunch:
First Planet Company, a subsidiary of the MindArk Group that develops and markets the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game Planet Calypso, which is based on the Entropia Platform and part of the Entropia Universe (still with me?), claims that the world record for most expensive virtual object ever to be sold has been [...]
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New Record for most expensive virtual object – $300,000USD
Posted in Uncategorized on January 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Augmented Reality Security Considerations
Posted in Uncategorized on November 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This post had originally been titled “The Top Augmented Security Threats“….on what grounds do I have to make such claims? These technologies and ideas are new. As such, aggressively speculating on potential future dangers (with no idea how real they are) is dangerous. In writing this blog, I hope to spark new thoughts and build [...]
Mobile Metadata Mining of Augmented Reality Systems
Posted in Uncategorized on November 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Augmented reality is here. Right now, today. We are about to see some creative developers make some incredibly powerful applications, applications that will change our lives on a daily basis. So what is augmented reality?
In case the concept of augmented reality is still new to you, basically it’s the placement of a digital layer of [...]
The Evolution of Social Media and Relational Modeling
Posted in Uncategorized on October 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Alternate reality gaming (ARG) is a relatively new trend beginning to gain serious traction. At its fundamental core, an ARG is simply a communication rich, collaboration environment that coalesces the real world and virtual space. An alternate reality game bridges the metaphysical disconnects between the two environments.
I recently began using foursquare. The folks over there [...]
Using Ephemeral Clients to Interface with Virtual Environments
Posted in Uncategorized on September 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Using Ephemeral Clients to Interface with Virtual Environments
Security Visualizations of Complex Systems in Virtual Environments
Posted in Uncategorized on September 2, 2009 | 7 Comments »
A few weeks ago I was fortunate to attend a talk concerning the utility of virtual and synthetic worlds. One idea mentioned was the concept of using virtual environments as a means of which to visualize and interact with complex systems. From a security perspective, complex systems and the amalgamation of varying components often result [...]
President Obama in Second Life
Posted in Uncategorized on July 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
President Obama is scheduled to appear in Second Life tomorrow (Saturday) morning at 8am EST.
The event is being hosted by USC Annenberg across a number of platforms including the virtual worlds Second Life and MetaPlace.
Official Details below:
Global Participation: Re-defining Citizenship
Date: Saturday, July 11, 2009
Time: 8:00 AM Eastern / 5:00 AM Pacific
Locations:
USC Annenberg Island in Second [...]
Understanding Islam through Virtual Worlds
Posted in Uncategorized on July 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
From Dancing Ink Productions.
Control, halt, delete (but not virtual worlds?)
Posted in Uncategorized on June 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Piece in the FT commenting discussing online censorship in the wake of Iran and China’s seemingly successful censorship campaigns. Virtual worlds and MMORPGs are not discussed in the article and I wonder if they are currently outside the grasp of the online censor?
Control, halt, delete
By Joseph Menn, Richard Waters and Kathrin Hille
Published: June 26 2009 [...]
Vigil for Iran in Second Life
Posted in Uncategorized on June 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Second Life has been pretty quiet in amongst the barrage of other new media involvement in the Iranian opposition movement.
However there is now a ’support Iran’ group and a vigil is currently being held at the Al Andalus mosque.
Slurl at this link.
