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With the Unity 3.5 developer preview being made available to the public yesterday, I set out to try the new Unity to Flash exporter.Via blog.almostlogical.com … [Read more...] about Office Zombie Simulator in Flash via Unity | AlmostLogical.com

From Hypergrid Business: "Kitely became the second commercial OpenSim grid to roll out Vivox voice today. Boston-based Vivox Inc. is currently the gold standard of in-world voice, used in Second Life, EVE Online, EverQuest, Star Wars Galaxies, DC Universe Online and in many other massively online multiplayer games. The company reported 60 million users as of October of this … [Read more...] about Kitely rolls out Vivox voice

Today I stumbled across this great bunch of photos on the National Geographic site, showing a range of advanced robotics projects underway (some of which I’ve covered here before, including the one pictured). Have a look through them all and you can see some of the superb simulation opportunities these robots will provide. Would love to hear your thoughts on potential … [Read more...] about Robots as simulation tools: great summary of progress

It's that time of year where a lot of people look back on the year that was. Over the coming week we'll be featuring retrospectives from other blogs, whether they are a broad look back at a virtual world or a more personal view. Here's a nice one to start with from Second Life's Yordie Sands: "Second Life makes it easy to capture some of the moments that make a second life a … [Read more...] about Yordie Sands: My Wonderful Fantasy – 2011

A fascinating video on mounting an LED in a contact lens. In the virtual worlds speher, the applications are obvious and appealing to say the least. Have a watch for yourself, but here's the video maker's description: "Every so often, internet news aggregator sites run a story about a research group that put an LED into a contact lens, then inserted it into a rabbit's eye. I … [Read more...] about LED mounted in a contact lens: virtual / AR displays