Call all educators or students working in Second Life, consider taking part in a research survey: My name is Christine Mark and I am working on my dissertation for my PhD in Instructional Technology from The University of Southern Mississippi. My dissertation is entitled The Rise and Fall of Second Life as an Educational Platform. This study seeks to find the reasons why … [Read more...] about Calling Second Life Educators and Students: Research Study
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Project Sci-Fi: Enter Your Machinima
The team at University of Western Australia continue their amazing virtual worlds work, hosting the machinima section of a huge undertaking called Project Sci-Fi: WD Project: Sci-Fi Film Challenge (Australia) 2013 is a Competition run by Screen My Shorts Inc in collaboration of WD (S.E.Asia Ltd). We invite entrants of all ages, cultures and ability to submit original creative … [Read more...] about Project Sci-Fi: Enter Your Machinima
VR and Latency: Carmack’s Thoughts
This post originally appeared over at our sister site Metaverse Health. John Carmack is a bit of an icon in gaming circles, and he's also one of the people that's supporting the Oculus VR consumer headset that's on the near horizon. I'd very stupidly assumed (having not read any biographical details on him until today) that he wasn't that deep into the coding / science of … [Read more...] about VR and Latency: Carmack’s Thoughts
Virtual Ability Island: Big Week of Activities
Longstanding hub for health and community services information, Virtual Ability Island, has a big week of activities ahead that I wanted to give a plug to. First, the summary of the events: Virtual Ability Community Events, week of Feb. 4-10 **Events marked are open to the public. All other events are for VAI community members and their invited guests. TUESDAY Feb 5 2:30pm … [Read more...] about Virtual Ability Island: Big Week of Activities
Bible-based Virtual World On The Way
Interesting little announcement / press release - mostly for some of the claims being made or assumptions on approaches of a range of other virtual worlds for children. I also find it fascinating that nowhere in the press release does it provide a URL or other info, so it's hard to know whether this is an actual launch or something coming up further down the track: CHRISTIAN … [Read more...] about Bible-based Virtual World On The Way