Back in December 2006, Los Arboles was born in the metaverse of Second Life. For the last three years, it has been my home and work place. Many of my friends do not understand the connection one can create in virtual worlds, so this might not seem like a big thing. For those that do [...]
Farwell Los Arboles
November 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Tags: Metaverse · Second Life
Things I Think as of Today
October 7th, 2009 · No Comments
Time for another Things I Think as of Today, and as always they are subject to change.
Random
Doesn’t matter how talented Roman Polanski is, he had sex with a drugged up 13 year old.
One thing I learned on my Jury Duty, under 16 is REAL bad in California.
Sports
The 49ers have been a very pleasant surprise this [...]
Tags: Gaming · Geek · Meta Magic Studio · Metaverse · Random Thoughts · Social Media · Sports · Technology
You Are NOT Prepared
June 4th, 2009 · No Comments
This video cracked me up and while those of you who do not play World of Warcraft may not get the joke, the death scenes are all to familiar to me. Lost in Bananavere presents slashdance vs Ulduar.
From the slashdance machinima team comes a cinematic documentary of the guild’s first forays into Ulduar! You’ve seen [...]
Happy Second Birthday OpenSim
January 29th, 2009 · No Comments
Just saw a twitter from Soft who reminded me that OpenSim is celebrating its 2nd birthday. From the OpenSim site:
The consensus is that OpenSim was ‘born’ on Jan 29 2007, when Darren Guard (MW) made his prototypical c# 3D world server publicly available. Help us celebrate this joyous occasion! Read History for some recap of [...]
Tags: Metaverse · OpenSim · Technology
Linden Lab OpenSpace Screw Up
November 5th, 2008 · No Comments
Linden Lab once again has stepped into the virtual poop with it’s price increase for Open Space sims announcement on Oct 29. Since then, the few remaining land owners of Second Life, estimated to be less that 85,000 are in an up roar. And rightfully so.
As an owner of both a regular sim (Los Arboles) [...]
Tags: Meta Magic Studio · Metaverse · Second Life
The Reason for World of Warcraft
September 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
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Why I Love Tateru Nino
August 28th, 2008 · No Comments
Working in Second Life has it rewards and trials. There are good days and bad days. Hell it is bleeding edge technology.
Now I believe with all of my soul that Linden Lab makes every attempt to provide a good working grid, but the complexity of this world makes 100% testing impossible. Things [...]
Tags: Metaverse · Second Life · Technology
Review Day(s)
August 26th, 2008 · No Comments
The next two days will be review days of sim builds that Meta Magic Studio has (hopefully) developed to customer satisfaction. One of them is a final check off phase, where basically we turn over the “keys.” The second project is in next to last phase review which means the client goes through [...]
Tags: Meta Magic Studio · Metaverse · Second Life
Christian Renuad Speaks
May 12th, 2008 · No Comments
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. – Alan Kay
Trying to keep tabs on the development of the metaverse is a full time job. The rate of new introductions and platform offerings is astonishing. My Google alerts are daily hitting me with the latest news.
While I would like to [...]
Tags: Metaverse · Second Life · Social Networks · Technology
McKinsey: ignore Second Life at your peril
May 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
Nice little article about virtual worlds and companies
Virtual worlds such as Second Life will become an indispensible business tool and vital to the strategy of any company intent on reaching out to the video-game generation, one of the world’s leading consultancies has said.
Reed it all: Times Online – McKinsey: ignore Second Life at your peril
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