Poinky Malaprop, coordinator of the Kuurian Expeditions, sends me info that at their next meeting tomorrow evening (Tuesday Oct 10), they will feature a presentation "The Metaverse Roadmap Project: Pathways to the 3D Web" by Snoopybrown Zamboni / Jerry Paffendorf: In May of 2006 the Acceleration Studies Foundation began the process of mapping the metaverse…
Category: Virtual Worlds
Get your event on New World Notes
I’m preparing my weekly event listings for SL blog "New World Notes" . Send me your interesting, innovative, off beat event notices for the coming week by Monday at 3pm EST. It looks an interesting week already, with the various Second Life library / Info Island opening events from October 12-14 and a Kuurian Expedition…
Audi commercial debuts their submersible car in Second Life?
Mark Wallace at 3PointD reports that car company Audi has debuted their new commercial in Second Life on the Avalon sim. It’s pretty cool, although hard to watch in the curved, wide-screen theater in Avalon. I think it had something to do with NASA, horses and cars shooting into the water. Perhaps Audi is launching…
Techsoup profiles three non-profits in Second Life
Techsoup, that super ICT resource for non-profits, has a nice article profiling three youth organizers that work within Second Life. Entitled "Change the World by Working in a Virtual One," the piece features quotes from Dave Pentecost, Technology Director of the Lower Eastside Girls Club of New York; Barry Joseph, Director of the Online Leadership…
Bransford post-script: on testing learning hypotheses and changing the academy
Okay, I’ve had a couple of days to digest some of the substance of Dr. John Bransford’s presentation on virtual learning environments that took place a few days ago. I suspect that what he is proposing fairly radical. There are really two points: If we are serious about virtual environments as being fertile learning spaces,…
Rik’s skating tour of Info Island (video)
I got an invite to the official opening of the Info Island Second Life Library, a project I have been watching develop for the past six months with great interest. Those librarians have a whole weekend full of activities planned from October 12-14, from panel discussions to scary movies, a costume ball, a beach party,…
Rik’s Event Picks on New World Notes
The first installment of what will hopefully be a long and mutually beneficial collaboration is on Hamlet Au’s pre-eminent blog New World Notes: "Rik’s Event Picks." About once a week on New World Notes I will be featuring particularly interesting events coming up within Second Life, from art openings, to live music jams, academic lectures…
Parioli: immersive Italian-themed sim
Man, those folks over at Parioli sim have created some incredible 360 degree images of places in Italy that really make me wish I was there. I really wanted to walk over to the Coloseum and hang out in the bleachers. This panoramic photo of a plaza in Italy was so real it seems like…
Snow Crash HUD e-book available for purchase
Last month I mentioned that Penguin Publishers UK was releasing an in-world version of the classic cyber-punk novel Snow Crash (1994) by Neal Stephenson. I finally got a hold of the sampler HUD (heads up display) from the Rivers Run Red HQ in Avalon (225, 55, 37). The HUD is definitely a lot easier to…
John Bransford: let’s build an “innovation island” to develop learning environments
Here’s a few pictures from the excellent presentation on "Virtual Environments as ways to Reorganize Thinking about Research and Education" that Dr John Bransford, education psychology specialist affiliated with the National Science Foundation, gave today in Second Life. The complete transcript of the event can be found here. You can view the video shown during…