virtual co-presence

Update: Some sentences rearranged to better express what I wanted to convey. Bold added.      Last year a blog post by Mark Pesce titled “Those Wacky Kids” contained this paragraph:   Mizuko Ito, a Japanese researcher, studied teenagers in Japan a few years ago, and found that these kids – from the moment they

Microcosms, Second Life and the Giant Zero of Distributed Media

a twitter msg sent by me from within sl Second Life offers a grid that is a microcosm of the connectedness that the Internet, operating as a pervasive, worldwide grid, promises. Second Life offers a peek into possibilities of what the world might look and feel like when the internet-as-grid connects all facets of how

Australasian Virtual Worlds Workshop

Sat in on a session at the Australasian Virtual Worlds Workshop in Second Life. It was being streamed so thought I’d grab the audio and screen shots of the presentation. Slides and audio (was a bit scratchy, but understandable) from presentation by Chris Collins – Logan Linden – given at Australasian Virtual Worlds Workshop, 29

Second Life, the ABC and Virtual Social interactions

UPDATE: The Producer of the show sent me the audio and I’ve snipped out music and commercials. You can listen here. Just like Laurel, I was asked on the ABC Radio Tuesday night to talk about Second Life (SL). Evidently the show was about online relationships, not just SL, but I didn’t know this beforehand,

Modeling Second Life virtual objects in the Physical – Paper Prototyping

I recently came across this site called Export To World which offers a method of taking virtual objects created in Second Life and creating a physical paper model of it in First Life. In effect making physical objects from virtual ones. Novel concept you say, but so what? Well, think of the situation where a