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Today on the Second Life News Network there is the news that at least one of the presidential candidates at the 2008 elections in the United States, John Edwards, is going to conduct a campaign within Second Life as well. I have mentioned this possibility just two weeks ago at a talk I held about […]
John Edwards announces presidential campaign in Second Life Read More »
Here is the transcript of my inaugural lecture of the Craedo Auditorium in Colonia Nova in Second Life: Welcome to this seminar about “The theory and practice of democracy in virtual worlds”. I want to thank CARE, CRAEDO, and the Confederation of Democratic Simulators for inviting me to give this talk at the inauguration of
Transcript of my lecture in Second Life on the Democracy in Virtual Worlds Read More »
I think this is a pretty big deal. A 16 qubit quantum computer ready for commercial applications is about to be unveiled in Mountain View on Feb 13 by D-Wave Systems. Why is it a big deal? The current progress of computing power is based on the architecture designed by the Hungarian physicist John von
Working commercial quantum computer to be unveiled in a week! Read More »
On Feb 10 at 12 PM SLT (SLT = Second Life Time = PST = Pacific Standard Time = GMT-8) at the inauguration of the CRAEDO Auditorium I will hold a talk entitled “The Theory And Practive Of Democracy In Virtual Worlds”. You can read the invitation that Michel Manen*, posted on the Confederation of
Come to listen to the Inaugural Lecture of the CRAEDO Auditorium in Colonia Nova Read More »
Perceptive Pixel is a new company formed by Jeff Han, launching, appropriately enough, with a video demo online of its multitouch interface. Update: I was embedding the video, but could not turn autoplay off, so now I am only linking to it, until I find out how… Here is the video Very exciting new possibilities
Great video of coming multitouch interfaces Read More »
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
Video of my seminar “Online Worlds And Second Life – Towards The Metaverse” Read More »
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?
Virtual reality from the ’60s Read More »
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,
Podcast of the Second Life seminar Read More »
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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