It was great meeting you guys at SLCC. We want more! Where’s my SLCC SecondCast?!

Attribution, No Derivatives 3.0 license – meaning that commercial use is OK, but derivative works are not and the use must be acknowledged.

This was another mis-statement in the content, but understandable. Hopefully we can just concentrate on having a kick-ass event now. Look forward to seeing y’all there.

What is the “frequency” of your podcasts? They seem to be about every two weeks, but I can’t tell…

Also, is the “Bee Report” (http://ExeterEbay.com/TheBeeReport.mp3) the only “Daily SL Podcast” ? It is primarily about land prices and economics of virtual worlds, including the Google Earth (and Hipihi.com, There.com, and AW 3d_4u2.com) competition for Linden! Love to hear your feedback and input!

UncleB

One way to stumble into this contemplate criterion is to designer the transformer with indecisiveness leakage paths for enthralling oscillation to go round the subsidiary winding (s )….

3D virtual real worlds (VRWs) are virtual spaces where multiple users can reside and communicate with each other in an online 3D environment. Virtual real worlds ( from Tele3DWorld) are focused on hundreds and even thousands of simultaneously occurring processes that are not obligatorily interconnected. Sounds, animations, hi-resolution textures and hi-poly meshes produce a realistic atmosphere or environment that resembles realistically the real world in great detail.

In order to join the 3D virtual real world community it is necessary to select a 3D avatar who will represent the persons persona in the 3D environment. After that the avatar can move around the 3D world with 6 DOF communicating with other users through personal messages and VoIP. Users may choose different roles provided by a particular virtual real world. For instance, the leading a group in a treasure hunt around the world by teleporting to the various locations through cyberspace.

3D virtual real worlds provide a unique opportunity for people to demonstrate their abilities, to share their experience, knowledge and emotions with other people in an 3D environment recreating specific conditions (either real-life, proposed, or imaginary). 3D worlds facilitate global interaction between people by providing the space for multi-user scientific conferences, business/design meetings, online trade, shows, workshops, social networks, and other events.

Virtual real worlds serve different purposes, such as entertainment, education, design, maintenance, communication, commerce, etc. They have the ability recreate various environments ranging from virtual shops and hotels to fantasy worlds created by human imagination. The applications of virtual real worlds are numerous virtual offices, online classrooms, virtual factories, virtual museums/art galleries, etc. The majority of currently existing virtual worlds are still focused on the gaming and entertainment sector. However they will start switching to various business initiatives to establish a VRW web (teleporting from a 3D VRW to a 3D VRW via cyberspace; rather than from 2D web page to 2D web page).

Advantages:

* Amazing and realistic user experience;

* Worldwide communication and implementation;

* Possibility to recreate any desired environment;

* Simultaneous multi-user collaboration for separate groups;

* Simultaneously running processes and actions that affect the world but will not necessarily affect other system users.

Features:

* realistic true perspective 3D environment (first person);

* support of interactive 3D avatars and AI bots;

* communication by speech and text to speech;

* expandable system architecture (which allows adding new levels and modules);

* integration with other software and platforms.

Greater understanding of the real world will enable a higher truth to be established.

See http://mellanium.com for detailed information and supporting articles for additional anecdotes. Skype: id joe133952 for live demonstration.

Copyright © Ken Rigby for Tele3DWorld and MellaniuM Design.

All Rights Reserved.

Is it possible to be sovereign over something like our current world-wide ground-running copper and fibre network? No. A few snips of some local connections, a company or two going defunct and millions of people lose connection in a blink for a given locale. That is local control. Can anyone be sovereign over all the locales? I doubt it.

Dont’ worry so much about “Who is sovereign” and concentrate on efforts to build a stable, agreeable base of technology that takes the physical, earth-bound connections out of the equation. If you remove the infrastructure, you remove local control.

SecondCast #60 is now on the air, featuring an interview with podcaster C.C. Chapman and Steve Coulson (aka Second Life’s Cleon Goff and Gideon Television) of Crayon, the new media marketing firm that launched last year. The pair relate their exp…

Loved in particular the bit about mushrooms.

If you missed the Virtual Worlds 2007 conference, don’t worry: now you can close your eyes and it’s almost like you’re there. John Swords has now posted most if not all of the audio files of the conference sessions over at RezNation.c…

If you missed the Virtual Worlds 2007 conference, don’t worry: now you can close your eyes and it’s almost like you’re there. John Swords has now posted most if not all of the audio files of the conference sessions over at RezNation.c…

The lastest podcast, Episode 59, from the Second Life focused show SecondCast features interviews with TSL resident and GK Leader Lucky Figtree discussing her work with Alex Harbinger on the Teen Grid Unification Project. The interview begins at 18:50 …

For clarification, I don’t think Philip and Blue explicitly endorsed the Unification Project during their interview on Global Kids island last March, but you can read the edited transcript here:
http://www.holymeatballs.org/2007/03/sl_blue_and_philip_linden_pres.html

It might be more accurate to say that 1) a better way to verify age is coming down the pike and 2) this will allow for the creation of a new grid, where teens and adults can interact, but be separate and apart from the main or the teen grid (my sense is it might have an educational focus, but that’s just a guess).

The interview made it clear that the reason the teen grid was created – for legal reasons – would be addressed differently were it created now. How, Philip didn’t say, but that was an interesting comment. Not only did it suggest that Linden Lab was now open to a new way for teens and adults to interact, it also showed how the creation of what would become perhaps the largest teen run community/economy on the world was incidental.

So even if the technical and legal reasons that led to the creation of the teen grid no longer exists, a new one developed as a result: to support teen leadership. Global Kids would like to see the creation of a new grid where adults and teens can interact, but we see that in addition to the teen grid, not a a replacement.

Barry

Global Kids does alot of work within Teen Second Life, and you can read all about that on the site:
http://www.holymeatballs.org

Alex Harbinger mentioned his blog, and easily enough you can find it at:
http://www.alexharbinger.com

And my Flickr was mentioned. I take alot of pictures of sims and events and stuff. Check it out here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/luckyfigtree/sets/
(There isn’t much there yet; as I’m pretty new to Flickr, but I’ll be sure to continue adding stuff for anyone intrested.)

If you have any more questions about the teen grid; you can always ask questions on my Snapzilla, Flickr, or email me at: Lucky_Sillanpaa@yahoo.com

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Alex Harbinger holds a teen grid debate on intergrid commerce in the virtual world of Second Life. Photo courtesy of Lucky Figtree.
We recorded a great SecondCast this past Wednesday with two residents of Second Life’s teen grid, Lucky Figtree a…