2,655 posts tagged virtual worlds

After Playboy entered Second Life last summer, the company tried to draw users to its own island and creations. Eventually it realized an even stronger method of interacting with the community was simply to open up its brand a little...

NCsoft and Vivox announced a partnership today to bring Vivox's integrated voice technology to NCSofts MMOGs and virtual worlds. Working through an NCsoft-branded communications portal, players will have access to Vivox's voice chat, in-and-out-of-game communication tools, voice fonts and more....

Engineering & Computer Simulations (ECS) announced yesterday that it had been contracted to build the Department of Homeland Security a virtual classroom that "will incorporate avatar-based instructional delivery and, when fielded, will provide the Department of Homeland Security a 3D...

Unity3D by Kristian Today 12:41 PM 51 1,278 Business and Technology Forum Last Post Threads Posts Business, Land and Economy (3 Viewing) Discuss issues involving running a business, the land market, and the economy in SL How low will mainland go?

Filed under: Video, There, Free-to-play, Cinemassively, Machinima, Virtual worlds, Humor VirtualVikki made this video, Lost in There Quest Commercial, for ThereCon last year. Taking place in July 2007, it was a week of science fiction events and activities in the virtual world, There.

There's no getting around it, I'm in the virtual worlds business now. It's my job, it's what I do in my spare time (besides playing Wii, building robots, and HL2 for the umpteenth time), and it's what I think about as I'm dozing off to sleep at night.

Filed under: Video, There, Free-to-play, Cinemassively, Machinima, Virtual worlds, HumorVirtualVikki made this video, Lost in There Quest Commercial, for ThereCon last year. Taking place in July 2007, it was a week of science fiction events and activities in the virtual world, There.

Image Metrics announced today that Forterra Systems, Inc., Chairman and CEO Dave Rolston has joined the company's board of directors. Forterra provides virtual world solutions for training and collaboration and Image Metrics provides CGI facial animation in games and film,...

Metaversum announced today that it had hired Lars Smidt, formerly of German-language dating platform FriendScout24, and Andreas van de Castel, formerly at German social network studiVZ, as the new heads of Online Marketing and Product Managment for the upcoming mirror...

One of the more unusual reports to come from Second Life is CNN's report (picked up by New World Notes) of virtual playboy staff checking out fakes in the online world. According to New World Notes, "Voluptuous managers Kimberly Laughton and Kattatonic Yates" are "showing up in full regalia at