The video of my seminar “Online Worlds And Second Life – Towards The Metaverse” is online on Google Video: If you can’t see the embedded video above, follow the direct link to it:http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2588190120892764006
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The Jesús Rafael Soto exhibit at Gamec, the Gallery of Modern Art in Bergamo, has a nice example of ‘ante literam’ virtual reality in this sphere created by our vision system through colored strings suspended between the floor, and the ceiling. Is there a sphere, isn’t there one?
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My seminar “Virtual Worlds And Second Life – Towards The Metaverse” is now available online as a podcast, as held on Berkman Island yesterday. Please subscribe to it with iTunes, or your favorite podcast software. (The logo you see on the top, is a draft for the podcast illustration, and it has its own story,
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Thanks to Cathrine, Rebecca, and Ansible Berkman (all SL sisters?) for their precious help in setting everything up in Berkman Island for the seminar, which is in less then 10 hours. I couldn’t have done it without their help. last minute emergencies are universally common. Last minute solutions, are much more difficult to achieve… and
Everything ready on Berkman Island, with great help from the locals Read More »
You are welcome to go and take an advance look at the slides that I am going to use with the seminar in the morning session, to be held in Berkman Island of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society of the Harvard Law School: Uploaded on http://www.slideshare.net/davidorban/online-worlds-and-second-life/
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We have added a second morning session at 11AM GMT+1 in English to the seminar next Tuesday, to accomodate the in-world availability of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society of the Harvard Law School, which will be kindly hosting it on Berkman Island in Second Life. Come and join us!
Berkman Center of Harvard Law School hosts my seminar in-world Read More »
Next tuesday, Jan 16 at 4PM I am speaking at the Crema Campus of the University of Milan about “Virtual Worlds, and Second Life: towards the Metaverse”. Come to chat, pick up one of the streams going to other campuses, or come back to see the recording once it has been uploaded. powered by performancing
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I was attending virtually attending CES in Las Vegas, and MacWorld in San Francisco simultaneously today, and greatly enjoyed the fantastic reporting from Engadget of Steve Jobs’ announcements. You could feel the excitement growing about the “three devices” (iPod, Phone, and Internet), which were really one. Then I said to myself, let’s drop a call
I just scored one through virtual conferencing! Read More »
Just in time for my seminar of Second Life next week at the University of Milan, there are new interesting analyses by Tristan Luis of the economy of the online world. Whether the more pessimistic or optimistic projections of user uptake are the valid ones at the end, and if really many or most users
New economic analysis on Second Life draws wrong mobile phone analogy Read More »
Ah yeah. MacWorld is on as well! So before I forget, here is the same list of pointers I had for Comdex, for MacWorld too: Blog posts Photos Videos Podcasts
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