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A group of people have gathered beside a gazebo in an outdoor park to discuss the presidential election. But the park isn't real, it's in the online virtual world of Second Life, where pixelated avatars fly around and interact with each other.
Tags: elect, president, obama, virtual worlds, barack, second life, news, virtual world, Barack Obama, presidential election
You're bored, unmotivated and have a few minutes to kill before lunch. You make your way over to Facebook, where you're able to jump straight into the virtual world of your choosing--say, "Second Life"--without launching an application. You wander around...
Tags: virtual worlds, facebook, second life, social, virtual scene, virtual world
Muxlim, the world's premier Muslim social networking site, plans to create a Second Life-style virtual world focusing on the ancient religion. The unnamed virtual world is set to launch in "4 to 6 weeks" and aims to offer Muslim gamers standard social...
Tags: second life, network, social, virtual world, Metaplace, social networking
Bloomberg Secured Capital Japan, which manages 550 billion yen ($5.1 billion) of real estate assets, said it plans to complete raising $1 billion for a fund by as early as December to tap investment opportunities in Japan. Tokyo-based Secured Capital...
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The News Journal August 23, 2008 A Claymont man arrived home from work Thursday to find an intruder lurking in his darkened apartment, holding a Taser gun aimed at his torso. The 52-year-old man got out of the apartment as quick as he could and called...
Tags: virtual world, art, Delaware
This can be applied to how he scales the virtual worlds in his games. Mr Wright, who was in Singapore for the first time to promote his latest creation, a life simulation game called Spore. Spore allows players to create and modify life forms, establish...
Tags: virtual world, virtual worlds, spore, art
Gibson Guitar Corp. has begun promoting its instruments in the virtual world. The Nashville company is following the trend of other companies such as IBM and Nissan North America, which have set up venues on the Second Life online community for consumers...
Tags: Gibson Guitar Corp., virtual world
Google's Lively social 3D world is 20 percent done From the Newsdesk Google today introduced a 3D chat room plug-in called Lively that is easy to embed in websites and blogs. Ars Technica went hands-on to see if Google actually has introduced us to "another...
Tags: virtual world, Newsdesk Google
The virtual world business is turning into a virtual galaxy with lots of competition. But the founders of the Neopets kids virtual world are diving into the fray today with Meteor Games, a new independent game development studio working on a fantasy/sci-fi...
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A new trend in online education involves students acting through animated characters called "avatars" mingling in simulated school settings and even rocketing off, via the Internet, on quests for knowledge. San Jose State University in the heart of Silicon...
Tags: virtual world, internet, second life, university, students, art