1. The USA's National Space Society had their machinima awards ceremony last weekend, in conjunction with the University of Western Australia. There's some superb machinima featured - you can view them all here. Also, don't forget to check out the May winners of the UWA's 3D Art competition, or go have a look yourself in-world. The scope and quality of the work on the UWA sim … [Read more...] about Merged realities – events and issues for virtual worlds
Mandy Salomon
Health Beyond 2009 – e-health, Serious Games and Second Life
Posted originally over on Metaverse Health: As a Registered Nurse with a passion for the use of emerging technologies to improve health, it can sometimes be a little frustrating when things don't seem to progress as fast as one would like. There's also the 'they just don't get it' phenomenon amongst some in health leadership and management roles, which can lead to the … [Read more...] about Health Beyond 2009 – e-health, Serious Games and Second Life
Realising a virtual worlds industry in Australia
Christian Salles, Olivier Lamirault, Serge Soudoplatoff, Jean Michel Billaut and Franck Bellido are five impressive individuals. All from France, they have played various roles in France's technology sector (their full bios follow at the end of this post) and they intrinisically understand virtual worlds. One (Franck Bellido) developed his company's Second Life island … [Read more...] about Realising a virtual worlds industry in Australia
Merged realities: events and issues for virtual worlds
Two of our more popular features each week are our weekly mainstream news roundup, The Watch, and our weekly does of machinima, Weekend Whimsy. The former runs Mondays, the latter Fridays. We've decided to add a new feature that will run in the middle of the week, called Merged Realities. It will be a handful of links to virtual world events, real-world events and … [Read more...] about Merged realities: events and issues for virtual worlds
Journal of Virtual Worlds Research – it’s here
Volume 1, Issue 1 of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research is now available. It contains an extensive collection of research: Inductive Metanomics: Economic Experiments in Virtual Worlds Stephen A Atlas Toward a Definition of “Virtual Worlds” Mark W Bell Cityspace, Cyberspace, and the Spatiology of Information Michael L. Benedikt Another Time, Another Space: Virtual … [Read more...] about Journal of Virtual Worlds Research – it’s here