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February 17, 2007

Mercedez-Benz to Launch a Virtual Showroom on SL

Mercedesbenz Mercedes-Benz Second Life Sim to Open Feb. 20Mercedesbenz Mercedes-Benz has made it official. They will be opening their virtual showroom and test track in Second Life onFebrurary 20th in the "upmarket South West district." They will hold anopening celebration featuring a concert with artists from theMercedes-Benz Mixed Tape compilation. A visit to the sim will garneryou a free Formula 1 racing suit and helmet (virtual, of course).

Business Communicators of Second Life®: Mercedes-Benz Second Life Sim to Open Feb. 20


Posted on February 17, 2007 2:30 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

June 12, 2007

Machinima Introduction to Second Life

I stumbled across this great intoduction to Second Life by Giff-Forseti of Electric Sheep. I like how it hits on one of the main benefits of this new medium - the abilitiy to experience being next to someone and communicating with them in a more humanistic way than the web has had the capacity to do up to this point. We are in the early stages and I can imagine that the visuals will only get more and more realistic going forward.

Introduction to Second Life

Posted on June 12, 2007 1:22 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

August 28, 2007

Quality: SL Priority #1

Linden Lab CEO Philip Rosedale was interviewed by Reuters at the SLCC. Revealing their plans for the upcoming year, it was refreshing to hear Philip state their top priority is improving stability and the quality of user experience. There are many features that could and will be be added to Second Life but its clear Linden's top priority is and should be improving stability of the Second Life platform.

Reuters/Second Life » Exclusive: Philip Rosedale interview from SLCC

Posted on August 28, 2007 11:23 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

August 29, 2007

Cisco Uses Virtual Words for Team Meetings

In a very interesting post about virtual work, Cisco shares some of their early experiences with using virtual worlds to hold team meetings.

1. conversations are more engaging
2. conversation flows are smoother
3. 3D views reduce information overload

Why play in the Virtual World schoolyard? - Cisco Virtual Worlds Blog

Posted on August 29, 2007 1:07 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Google Search Coming to Second Life?

Nick Wilson reports on the Metaversed Blog that the Linden Lab development team are "playing around" with the Google Search Appliance to improve search results in Second Life. The new system would render out results from searches in 2D HTML.

Second Life to Integrate Google Search | Metaversed

Posted on August 29, 2007 11:12 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

September 7, 2007

Linden Lab Forks Second Life

In what appears to be the beginning of a major shift in Second Life, Linden Lab has introduced the Second Life Grid ( http://secondlifegrid.net/ ). This formally separates Second Life technology from the Second Life product (the SL virtual world).

The SL Grid will be more focused on organizations than individual residents, and has already rolled out programs such as the Community Gateway Program and the Global Provider Program.

This appears to me, as the first step towards Linden Lab open sourcing their servers so that anyone can plug there server into the grid and link up with the virtual world of Second Life. This will probably not happen for another 10-12 months, but the secondlifegrid.net initiative appears to be the first step towards reaching that goal.

Introducing the Second Life Grid « Official Linden Blog

Posted on September 7, 2007 4:41 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

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