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Avatar portability – Evolver to FriendsHangout (unity3d)

I have continued to explore and be impressed by the avatar model creation site evolver.com
Having created an avatar and looked at the various ways of transporting that content to places I also tried the link to the unity3d powered Friends Hangout. I had tried this a little while ago, and it has changed drastically. There are [...]

Now too busy to date your avatar

A brilliant response by Pooky and her new band The Tune Bugs is doing the rounds to the Date my avatar by The Guild. The single is available to purchase here
It would be wrong to not big this up. Pooky is a full on Second Life celeb, so from one minor celeb one to one major [...]

Evolving epredator

I have been experimenting with many avatar creation sites recently for some projects. I have two experiments I usually try, one is the predator themed version. This usually tests the creative flexibility of a system, with a mask or mandibles messing up most systems.
The other is some green (preferably spikey) haired version thats a caricature in [...]

Apply to become a TED Fellow @ TED2010!

I received this via eightbar and thought is worth posting

Ever dreamed of attending a TED Conference…of being around some of the world’s greatest minds and discussing the best technology, art, architecture, music, film, science, literature, etc? Are you innovative and want to meet with other people like you from around the world? Then apply to the [...]

Augmented Reality API – Build your own future, pixels or atoms

Thanks to @abc3d for tweeting this link on ReadWriteWeb for the Wikitude Android Augmented Reality open API

One thing to not forget in all this is that whilst we can augmented physical locations with information we can also augment virtual locations in the same way. So not only are the virtual worlds visual databases and user created [...]

“Mined” the gap

it is always interesting when your online reputation is your actual CV. It used to be just for those in Who’s Who or major celebs to keep press cuttings. Now we can all do it, even us “minor” celebrities.
For a good few years I have always pointed people back to things I have blogged or to [...]

I will talk and Hollywood will Listen

There is a great article in the LA Times I saw Twittered more than once today about the coming batch if Game/Virtual World related movies about to entertain/annoy/discredit or legitimise the sort of things we are all up to.

, originally uploaded by OfficialAvatarMovie.

Avatar obviously sounds like one that fits the current avatar and islands models, though [...]

Immersive banner ads, new worlds and exposing platform choice

In the ever evolving and growing virtual world business we are seeing yet more interesting changes since my previous post.
Blue Mars is entering the fray as a virtual world experience. It is one powered by a high end game engine Crysis CryEngine 2. I suspect this will get quite a bit of interest from people who [...]

Browsers, plugins and virtual world steps in the right direction

We have great conversations in the virtual world industry about mass adoption of virtual worlds and how that might happen. Usually all the barriers to adoption are human not technical. Social resistance of world x or practice y or risk z within a particular business or social community. Some of this is based on fear or [...]

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