This week we discuss the status of Second Life, new research from virtual worlds, Valve’s Steam Box and more!
This week’s topics include:
- Nalates’ MetaReality recaps
- Ginsu Linden “Why Second Life Failed”
- Discussion on lag
- Discussion on the first user experience
- More on Dio
- The Virtual Real Estate Market
- Second Life Materials Update
- Materials processing – more sneak peeks
- Buddhism in second life: Anthropologist studies spirituality in virtual reality
- Healing the Inner Child Through Virtual Reality and Avatar Therapy
- Study Suggests Virtual Superhero Behavior Increases Helpful Real Life Behavior
- How Facebook Graph Search might affect Second Life Residents
- How Valve’s Steam Box will reinvent the game console as you know it
- 2013 Superbowl Ads Favor URLs, Hashtags –Not Facebook
- “Because I am not here” Thesis work on four SL artists
- MeTube: August sings Carmen ‘Habanera’
Guests:
Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.
Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.
Thank you to our sponsors, Botgirl’s Digital Playground & AngelRED Couture