Nigel Paravane

An Introduction To Open Sim: the “Apache of Virtual Worlds” | OStatic
“You’ve probably read a bit about Open Sim, the BSD-licensed virtual world server, and recent news that IBM and Linden Lab are working to make Second Life and Open Sim interoperable. Besides that project, what’s Open Sim about, who’s working on it, what are [...]

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slpromusician.com • Index page
“Professional Musicians in Second Life“
tags: SL, NP, Second Life, music

Some of von johin’s blues
Heard him last night during the opening of Gibson Island. Excellent.
tags: OB, NP, music, blues

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Gibson Guitar Enters Into Virtual World of 3-D With Launch of Gibson Island on Second Life.com, an Industry First - MarketWatch
“Gibson is the first major music manufacturer to establish an official island in Second Life and has advanced the opportunity for consumers to participate in an exciting virtual world complete with digital luthiers, instruments and [...]

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A ‘Second’ chance to study abroad | News - Digital Media - CNET News.com
“According to an article in The Christian Science Monitor, several universities and even the U.S. Department of State are using Second Life to spread culture and experience to people who can’t afford pricey semesters overseas. This year, Ohio University noticed that its [...]

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With Lively, Google tries its own ‘Second Life’ | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - CNET
“Google on Tuesday plans to unveil an online 3D social arena called Lively, the Internet giant’s take on Second Life. But Google wants it to be part of your first life. Second Life requires users to download and [...]

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IBM and Linden Lab Interoperability Announcement « Official Second Life Blog
“This is a historic day for Second Life, and for virtual worlds in general. IBM and Linden Lab have announced that research teams from the two companies successfully teleported avatars from the Second Life Preview Grid into a virtual world running on an OpenSim server, [...]

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Video Game Review - Conan’s Back, at Play in a World of Savagery - Review - NYTimes.com
“By contrast, a massively multiplayer game like Age of Conan or World of Warcraft is an immense round-the-clock online environment where thousands of players simultaneously go about their virtual lives, exploring, fulfilling quests or just making friends.”
tags: OB, NP, [...]

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How Second Life Affects Real Life - TIME
“What’s more, Bailenson’s research suggests that the qualities you acquire online — whether it’s confidence or insecurity — can spill over and change your conduct in the real world, often without your awareness. Bailenson has found that even 90 seconds spent chatting it up with avatars is enough [...]

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Second Life - Bay City
It’s worth checking out the layout, architecture, and landscaping of this new area.
tags: Second Life, OB, NP

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Are we closer to a ‘Matrix’-style world? - Frontiers- msnbc.com
“Advances in computing, graphics are creating a more realistic virtual reality”
tags: virtual world, OB, NP

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DAZ Productions - 3D Models, 3D Content, and 3D Software - Hexagon 2.5
“The new Sculpted Primitive tool allows users to model special primitive objects in Hexagon that can be exported in TGA format, then imported and used in Linden Labs’ popular 3D virtual world, Second Life. In Second Life, these sculpted primitives can be used [...]

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Lego’s Latest Brick Trick: A Virtual World
“Millions of children pick up Lego bricks each year to spend hours — 5 billion, in fact — creating their own imaginary worlds. Now the manufacturer of the little plastic playing blocks wants to take them online to “Lego Universe,” a virtual world for fans of the ubiquitous toy.”
tags: [...]

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Lost Fans Find Internet Thrills Via Wikis, Games, Second Life — InformationWeek
“Fans and producers of the hit TV show Lost are taking to the Internet, building a wiki, alternate reality games, communities, and a virtual island in Second Life to explore the world of the ABC show”
tags: Second Life, LOST, tv, OB, NP

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Ubuntu Linux Virtual World
“This site is created to offer a platform for the Ubuntu Linux group in Second Life. The purpose of this group is to contact with Ubuntu Linux users in Second Life and to promote Ubuntu Linux in this virtual world.”
tags: Second Life, Ubuntu, Linux, OB, NP

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Free Preview - WSJ.com
“The 3-D service called Home, which originally was expected to be sold starting last year, now is expected to be available in the fall, the company said. The service will let users create avatar characters, decorate homes and interact with other users in a virtual world.”
tags: virtual world, SONY, OB, NP, WSJ

Linden [...]

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