Tag Archives: avatars

Thu, Jun 3 2010
Hollywood company gives away virtual islands to celebrities

Hollywood company gives away virtual islands to celebrities

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Hollywood celebrities can now get their own virtual islands — at no cost — through Virtual Celebrity Islands, launching at this Sunday’s 2010 MTV Movie Awards. Between 70 and 80 celebrities... 

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Thu, Apr 15 2010
Joys and dangers of work avatars

Joys and dangers of work avatars

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If you’re a business manager considering rolling out virtual workspaces, you may think that an avatar identity is nothing more than yet another user account, the login credentials for a particular... 

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Fri, Jan 15 2010
10 predictions for 2010

10 predictions for 2010

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I just got off the phone with a company building an educational grid for a company in China — in OpenSim. They picked the platform not for its cheapness, but it’s feature set. This too often... 

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Wed, Dec 9 2009
Law book to address virtual issues

Law book to address virtual issues

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Press Release: Virtual Reality Collides with Real-world Law in Forthcoming Book by Rutgers–Camden Law Professor CAMDEN –  In the new James Cameron movie “Avatar,” characters “inhabit”... 

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Wed, Nov 18 2009
OpenSim in Intel spotlight

OpenSim in Intel spotlight

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Intel CTO Justin Rattner introduced OpenSim superstars Shenlei Winkler and Crista Lopes to the world yesterday at the at the SC09 supercomputing conference in Portland, Ore. According to Rattner, super... 

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Wed, Oct 7 2009
Gartner Says Enterprises Must Get Control of Their Avatars

Gartner Says Enterprises Must Get Control of Their Avatars

Press Release Gartner Identifies Six Ways to Make Best Use of Avatars in the Business Environment Avatars are creeping into business environments and will have far reaching implications for enterprises,... 

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Sat, Sep 5 2009
Machinimators ‘too busy to date’

Machinimators ‘too busy to date’

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Have you seen the episode of The Office where Dwight Shrute gets a Second Life? It’s exactly the same as his first life – except that he can fly! And did you catch that episode of CSI: New York... 

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Sat, Aug 29 2009
Virtual Gender: Q&A with Jamison Green

Virtual Gender: Q&A with Jamison Green

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Ever more frequently, companies looking to save money are moving meetings and training into virtual environments such as Second Life, OpenSim, Forterra, and Qwac. In some cases, the company fully controls... 

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Fri, Aug 28 2009
Virtual drag a thorny issue for employers

Virtual drag a thorny issue for employers

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In recent years, companies have begun using virtual worlds such as Second Life, OpenSim, Forterra and Qwaq to hold virtual meetings — and employees have begun using avatars, or cartoonish animated... 

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Wed, Aug 26 2009
The CTO wore drag

The CTO wore drag

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Whenever I interview a Wall Street executive, or a technology expert, I have to ask for a photograph.  I often joke that we already have a lot of headshots of guys in suits — what I really want... 

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Sat, Jun 13 2009
Get yourself up on the hypergrid

Get yourself up on the hypergrid

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[Update: You can browse all hypergrid-enabled public OpenSim grids with Hyperica, the directory of hypergrid destinations. Directory indexes more than 100 shopping and freebie store locations.... 

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Sat, May 23 2009
OpenSim Glossary

OpenSim Glossary

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Grid A horizontal map composed of one or more regions, similar to the way that a chessboard is made up of individual squares. A grid is normally identified by a URL and a port number, for example, the... 

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Fri, May 22 2009
Real names and real faces for virtual worlds

Real names and real faces for virtual worlds

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When business users first log into a virtual world like Second Life or OpenSim they usually have two questions: can they use their real names for their avatars? And can their avatars look like them? The... 

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