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2013 Mental Health Symposium in Second Life 23 Apr 2013 | 09:56 am
Some more great work from Virtual Ability, Inc, with this Saturday seeing a Mental Health Symposium. You can find out more on the Virtual Ability blog but here’s the schedule: Will you Treat ME? Fund...
VR and Latency: Carmack’s Thoughts 24 Feb 2013 | 04:55 am
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 hea...
Virtual Ability Island: Big Week of Activities 6 Feb 2013 | 06:37 pm
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 Ab...
Bible-based Virtual World On The Way 23 Jan 2013 | 05:41 pm
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...
Linden Lab’s Amazon Bundling Bungling 5 Jan 2013 | 04:43 pm
Tateru Nino has a great piece on Linden Lab’s announcement that they are selling Second Life bundled with packages of content. Read it for yourself – I don’t think it’s possible for me to agree more w...
Procrastination and Virtual Worlds as ‘Work’ 2 Nov 2012 | 10:52 am
I just wanted to briefly post a piece as I’m more than acutely aware that it’s been well over a month since anything new has appeared here. It’s definitely not due to a lack of interest in virtual wor...
Vale: ABC Island in Second Life 21 Sep 2012 | 09:34 am
As I wrote a few weeks back, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s presence in Second Life is about to come to a close. The 22nd September sees the curtain fall, but not without some festivities p...
Mayo Clinic in Second Life 13 Sep 2012 | 05:09 am
Looks like an interesting session of the non-profit commons in SL this Friday: This Friday, September 14th, Nonprofit Commons is happy to feature Brian Kaihoi (Svea Morane in SL), of the Mayo Clinic...
ReactionGrid retreats from OpenSim 26 Aug 2012 | 05:14 am
Hypergrid Business has an interesting piece on the change in direction for ReactionGrid. We’ve followed them closely over the years (including our distinctly retro interview with CEO Kyle Gomboy back ...
The future of the Metaverse: If there has been a failure, it is ours 26 Aug 2012 | 04:51 am
A great piece from www.botgirl.com on Linden Lab’s recent moves: Fleep Tuque posted a fascinating essay yesterday with the provocative title, “Why Anyone Who Cares About the Metaverse Needs to Move Be...
