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Second Life The biggest upgrade to Second Life since 2003 occurred yesterday… the release of the Viewer 2 beta. I would highly recommend checking it out; it can be installed alongside the main Second Life viewer, v1.23. There hasn’t been a total user interface overhaul since v1.2 (under a separate numbering system) was released in [...] Pretty mundane, eh? I think everyone is having the same reaction to this news: even though no one is completely shocked, still, wow, they’re pulling the plug already? In case you haven’t heard, Google will be shutting down their first foray into avatar based virtual worlds, Lively, mere months after opening it. Building retention appeal into [...] Background About a year ago, I started to research Google Apps, an offering from Google which offers corporations free email, calendar, and document management solutions. While the document management isn’t nearly as feature complete as an Office Suite (Microsoft or Open), the email offering was impressive. Our organization had spent thousands upon thousand of dollars on [...] Indigo by Sean Percival aka Sean Voss ISBN 0-7897-3730-2 http://www.amazon.com/Second-World-Travel-Guide-World/dp/0789737302/ Background This book has been a labor of love by Sean Percival (SL avatar: Sean Voss) for some time. We’ve conversed several times in world, and (far too briefly) at the 2007 Second Life Community Convention, and he has mentioned it. It is clear that he is a lover [...] Details: http://www.vuzix.com/iwear/products_vr920.html INTRODUCTION I was quite excited a few months ago when I stumbled across the Vuzix VR920, a lightweight set of virtual reality eye glasses with dual hi-res displays. The amount of features packed into the three ounce package is really impressive: dual 640 x 480 VGA progressive scan LCDs with a 32 degree field (scales to [...] |
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