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- Google lets people create custom virtual realms
- SAN FRANCISCO AFP — Google has rolled out a challenge to virtual world giant Second Life with free software that lets people create their own online 3D worlds that can be embedded on websites and melded with other online functions. Lively by Google lets people place virtual "rooms" on...
- Research articles 2008-07-08
- Keeping faith in Second Life
- SAN FRANCISCO AFP — It is a Friday evening in Second Life and Beth Odets lights Shabbat candles at Temple Beit Israel, which she created in the virtual world a year and a half ago. "Shabbat Shalom everyone!" Odets says in a typed instant message to animated figures standing...
- Research articles 2007-08-24
- Canada seeks digital cops to catch digital thieves
- OTTAWA AFP — As criminals increasingly hijack digital technologies, police in Canada are turning to an unusual candidate pool for crime fighters: the virtual world of Second Life. "Policing has to reflect society, and as technology becomes more pervasive in society, we have to make sure that officers we...
- Research articles 2007-07-21
- 'England' up for auction in Weblo virtual world
- SAN FRANCISCO AFP — An online virtual world playfully branded "Monopoly on steroids" is offering England to the highest bidder, with the winner to be crowned king or queen. The website Weblo.com, a reality-based virtual world launched in December of 2006 by a Montreal-based firm of the same name,...
- Research articles 2007-06-14
- Avatars in the Lab at the Media X Annual Meeting
- PALO ALTO, Calif. -- "Let me show you what happens when you reverse the spatial orientation with the video input." The avatar of a Media X corporate affiliate in Japan switches the sequence of tasks specified in an estimation of facial orientation. Colleagues in Europe and Asia, also present (in...
- Research articles 2007-04-10
- Virtual terror strikes Second Life
- SAN FRANCISCO AFP — In an explosive display, virtual-world banes now mirror the havoc of the real one as terrorists have launched a bombing campaign in Second Life. People controlling animated avatar members of a self-proclaimed Second Life Liberation Army SLLA have set off computer-code versions of atomic bombs...
- Research articles 2007-02-24
- 'Alien' star Weaver reunites with Cameron for new sci-fi film
- LOS ANGELES AFP — US actress Sigourney Weaver will appear in James Cameron's sci-fi film "Avatar," the director's first fiction film since his Oscar-winning blockbuster "Titanic," industry press reported. The big-budget film "Avatar," due out in 2009, is set on a distant planet, where a group of humans face...
- Research articles 2007-02-16
- Virtual world set up online for legislators in Congress
- When Rep. George Miller is "in-world," he teleports between continents and flies into the room. "And I have a waistline!" Miller joked. That would be his "avatar," a virtual rendition of the Martinez congressman in Second Life, a three-dimensional, online world where people, represented...
- Research articles 2007-02-12
- Next avatar on Second Life: the Swedish taxman
- STOCKHOLM AFP — Swedes earning tax-free money on Internet games such as World of Warcraft and Second Life may have to think again after Swedish authorities said they were planning a clampdown. "We're not interested in ordinary gamers, 99 percent of them play for the sake of playing," Dag...
- Research articles 2007-01-31
- Fantasy lives flourish in virtual world of Second Life
- SAN FRANCISCO AFP — Moments after being born in Second Life, Knut Graff rose into the sky, flew through a mountain and headed over an ocean to explore a virtual world that boasts nearly three million inhabitants. A second later, the neophyte crash landed in the sea. Fortunately, he...
- Research articles 2007-01-28
- James Cameron's AVATAR to Begin Principal Photography in April 2007 for Summer 2009 Release
- Oscar[R]-Winning Filmmaker's First Feature Since Titanic Will Offer New Immersive Cinematic Experience, In Digital 3D; Discovery to Play Male Lead; Peter Jackson's WETA to Undertake New CGI Component LOS ANGELES -- Academy Award[R]-winning filmmaker James Cameron begins principal photography on AVATAR - his first feature directorial effort...
- Research articles 2007-01-08
- 'Chatbot' king George looks for human friends on the internet
- LONDON AFP — George, who is 39, single and light-hearted, is looking for friends on the Internet. He has gifts -- the ability to speak in 40 languages and with 2,000 people at the same time. And one quirk: he doesn't really exist. George is a piece of software, arguably...
- Research articles 2006-09-15
- Cybersex heads to the masses
- PARIS AFP — Cybersex, until now a niche market for nerds, is poised to open up to the masses thanks to new user-friendly software, New Scientist reports. At present, cybersex is practised among so-called sex communities, in which small groups of people interact via animated 3D characters called avatars....
- Research articles 2006-06-14
- Posco men take Oriya route to locals' hearts.
- Mar. 15--BHUBANESWAR: The next time a South Korean from Posco India Limited meets an Indian, chances are that he may greet the latter with a resplendent namaskar instead of extending a hand for the expected 'hello'. Wonder of wonders, he may do better by...
- Research articles 2006-03-15
- Dilbert's Creator Wants You to Abuse Him...Tomorrow Night
- Scott Adams isn't just the man behind Dilbert. He's also an MBA from UC Berkeley, a jack of all trades (see the long list of "humiliating and low paying jobs" in his bio) and a clever self-promoter. In his latest blog post, he invites us all to see him in Second...
- Blog posts 2007-10-29
- "Connected worlds".(Newsline)
- You may think one world, one life, is enough; but there is a host of avatars in Second Life who think two is better than one. And these Second Life avatars want to see photo exhibits, too, just like in the real world. You...
- Research articles 2007-12-01
- Digital Office Space!
- Do you find yourself wishing that some of the members of your team -- especially those that work from home, a remote location or a satellite office -- could be more tied into the workplace? The wait may be almost over thanks to a pair of 3D virtual workplaces hitting...
- Blog posts 2007-08-27
- The changing face of old St. Nick
- THIS STATUE OF SANTA--in the style made familiar by Coca-Cola ads, and postured like a Salvation Army bell ringer--stands year-round in the main square of Demre, a town in Turkey. According to The Washington Post, it recently replaced a bronze statue of the original, fourth-century St. Nicholas, who worked his...
- Research articles 2005-06-01
- Who's that reading your voice mail? Voice mail is undergoing changes. Soon a celebrity, avatar or even your children will be delivering visual voice mail.(Technology)
- Voice mail, that necessary but sometimes reviled application, has been around more than two decades in pretty much the same form. That's Ring enough that many Americans have never been without it. But now the technology is ready for a change. ...
- Research articles 2005-05-01
- Cahoot and Ikea put Creative Virtual's Lingubot to the test
- Cahoot and Ikea are the first UK organisations to trial on their Web sites virtual assistant technology developed by software firm Creative Virtual. The Lingubot software is programmed to converse in natural language and, it's claimed, can understand the context of questions. Interactive avatars can be used to...
- Research articles 2004-09-02
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