Lego Signs 3-Year Deal With Unity

February 9th, 2010 Virtual Worlds News

Unity Technologies announced today that it had signed a three-year deal with the Lego Group, according to which the plastic brick company will standardize on Unity-authored materials for 3D content on Lego.com.
Unity has has been used for a variety of full-fledged virtual worlds and MMOs, including Cartoon Network's FusionFall and the upcoming Marvel MMO, [...]

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27,000 Youth Entertainment Professionals Registered To Attend Engage and Toy Fair Next Week

February 9th, 2010 Virtual Worlds News

27,000 youth entertainment professionals (yes, you read that correctly) are registered to attend next week's Engage!® Conference and Expo (Feb. 16-17) and Toy Fair (Feb. 14-17) in NYC.  The shows are colocated at the Javits Convention Center and will share expo hall attendees. Engage!® is the definitive event on youth entertainment technology. Toy Fair is [...]

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0812 – 3rd rezzday – Cut 2

February 9th, 2010 janette
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Zonja Capalini posted a video:

Music: Torley: Home of the Rave
That one is a pure music video, not caring about desciptions here.
YouTube version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqEWsf-64ww

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0811 – 3rd rezzday – Cut 1

February 9th, 2010 janette
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Zonja Capalini posted a video:

Music: IM: Legend of the Black Shawarma
That one is descriptive of what happened in the party. I’m preparing another one with similar material which is a pure music video.
Youtube version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzTNbKWOwz8

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0810 – 3rd Rezzday – Trailer

February 9th, 2010 janette
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Zonja Capalini posted a video:

Music: Torley: Rimshot
YouTube version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LYPMqGjg7w

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MiniMonos Raises $550k For Kids World

February 8th, 2010 Virtual Worlds News

MiniMonos has raised NZD $800,000 (about US$500,000) for its kids virtual world. The Kiwi company will use the money to boost its social marketing campaign here in the U.S. in advance of an April launch, reports Stuff.co.nz. The company is already developing a network of green kids and mothers in the U.S. 

MiniMonos is following the [...]

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Philip has left the building

February 8th, 2010 iliveisl
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thanks DreamWalker – https://blogs.secondlife.com/people/Philip.Linden

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VideoTrace offers easy way to create 3D objects from video clips

February 8th, 2010 MaxPing
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One of the most compelling aspects of virtual worlds is the ability create your own worlds. One of the problems with that is that modeling 3D objects requires a lot of skill and time. People want to bring their own physical world objects to the virtual world.

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iliveisl sim transfer update

February 7th, 2010 iliveisl
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it’s been overwhelming the support that the iliveisl residents have poured out, thank you  =) and transfers are almost done
after 3 years and having as many as 101 occupied parcels, it’s really hard to step away from some of it. 99% of the time was wonderful (that other 1% was drama crap, people trying to [...]

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OMG! is this what Philip is doing now?

February 7th, 2010 iliveisl
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i was reading some blog (it was a very nice one actually and mentioned us leaving sl) and saw that the author referenced Philip’s new endeavor
the love machine
well after just having discovered teledildonics last week, i freaked with the name of the company.  but it’s not sex (gee, don’t be so disappointed!)  =D
is that really Philip Rosedale?
http://www.lovemachineinc.com/

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0809 – Thank you!

February 7th, 2010 janette
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Zonja Capalini posted a photo:

It’s been an AWESOME rezzday party!
Thanks Alles, Eves, Favio, Florence, Iqlia, Jocgart, Liss, Mandrappa, Monerda, Nessy, Norax, oxa, Shoshisn, Silver, Sura for coming! (If I’m missing somebody it’s unintentional, too tired )
Thanks to Katiya who could not come but sent a lot of fantastic gifts, also for Opensim!
200 [...]

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0790 – Rezzday Party – Reminder – Party starting NOW! :-)

February 7th, 2010 janette
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Zonja Capalini posted a photo:

Saturday, February the 6th, at 01pm SLT (22:00 Europe)
Third Rezzday Party of Ludmilla Writer and Zonja Capalini
Dress code: Non-standard skins (including "Avatar" skins)
SL: Condensation Land/95/95/30
Ludmilla’s rezzday is today (Wed the 3rd). We will also have an informal meeting in the Condensation Land Opensim grid around 03pm (24:00 europe), in Condensation Land/95/95/30 [...]

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What´s up in OSGrid ?

February 7th, 2010 MaxPing
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OSGrid has been a place to start for all those interested in opensim for a while. By that, more and more people knew about osgrid, but newbies did not find interesting content, people and places. Now with the UFS the first major roleplay group made a step from Second Life into osgrid, bringing great [...]

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remembering the iliveisl tier centre

February 6th, 2010 iliveisl
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since Enercity Park will poof on saturday, i decided to take more pics of the tier centre since the zeppelin moored at the top hangs out into the park *i really love the zepellin*
next to the Eville Atomic Lounge, it’s probably my favourite build (the zep), speaking of the Eville lounge, i am building one [...]

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Virtual World Wrap-Up For The Week Of February 5

February 6th, 2010 Virtual Worlds News

Welcome to the
Virtual Worlds News Wrap-Up for the week of February 5, 2010. The Wrap-Up
is where VWN spotlights stories that we didn't get to cover
individually, but still make for interesting reading about the virtual worlds industry.

Marshall University introduces MUOnline’s Second Life island. Marshall University has and island in Second Life. Visitors may  find information about [...]

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Arbopals, Infinite Spaces Developing Tree Virtual World

February 5th, 2010 Virtual Worlds News

Arbopals and Infinite Spaces, the Virtual World Design Centre at Loyalist College, have partnered to create a tree-themed virtual world for kids aged 5-10. The site is now in beta, and the company has promised to plant a tree for every avatar created in the virtual world's beta, up to 1,000 avatars.
"Every kid these [...]

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Quick Stat: Star Trek Online Draws 1 Million Accounts At Launch

February 5th, 2010 Virtual Worlds News

Cryptic Studios announced earlier this week that its latest effort, Star Trek Online, had drawn over 1 million fans to create accounts in the time leading up to its launch.  Granted, Star Trek Online is riding the wave of a massive publicity effort, including TV tie-ins. More importantly, I think it shows the power of [...]

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Free textures for all seasons and all uses

February 5th, 2010 MaxPing
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Textures for all seasons and all uses. Find fabric, fashion, floor tiles, glass, stone and more. Replace your worn out and tired textures or discover new patterns here. Suitable for realXtend, Second Life and Opensim – at least.

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Top 5 Requested Second Life Features

February 5th, 2010 HypergridBusiness
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I was reading something about how a small cadre of …

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0796 – B&W Dance

February 5th, 2010 janette
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Zonja Capalini posted a video:

Music: Torley: Home of the Rave
Youtube version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLcxAtj1CgA
No special effects included in this video, except for the last sequence, which is faded to black. All the rest is a collation of raw SL footage.

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0795

February 5th, 2010 janette
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Zonja Capalini posted a photo:

Untouched

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0794

February 5th, 2010 janette
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Zonja Capalini posted a photo:

Untouched

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0793 – Ludmilla’s 3rd Rezzday

February 5th, 2010 janette
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Zonja Capalini posted a video:

Music: Torley: Gritney Slits
Youtube version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0z9C0ouAlQ

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0792 – 3rd rezzday + 3 – Bilocate – 9 months and 22 days old

February 5th, 2010 janette
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Zonja Capalini posted a photo:

That’s a poster I made when I was 9 months and 22 days old which I had on my HD. Bilocation is, amongst other things, a divine gift given to some monks and saints consisting in the ability to be in two places at the same time. I’m sending that one [...]

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Laid off Wonderland developers to continue project

February 5th, 2010 HypergridBusiness
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Project Wonderland developers say they will continue working on the …

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WeeWorld Avatars Coming To iPhone, iPod Touch

February 5th, 2010 Virtual Worlds News

WeeWorld announced today that it had launched the WeeMee Avatar Creator app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The $.99 Avatar Creator lets users create aned edit WeeMee avatars and then assign them to caller ID images, use them as wallpapers, share them over email, or send them to networks like Facebook and Twitter.  The [...]

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The9 Reportedly Investing In Two MMO Developers

February 4th, 2010 Virtual Worlds News

The9 lost its role as Chinese operator for World of Warcraft last year and has since been looking for other options. It seems as if at least part of the solution is a hefty investment in Chinese MMO developer Fire Rain and in California-based Red 5 Studios. Reuters cites a company source in the matter, [...]

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EON Reality, Darwin Dimensions Partner For Education, Business Apps

February 4th, 2010 Virtual Worlds News

EON Reality and Darwin Dimensions announced today that they had partnered for two projects in the business and education virtual world space. EON provides customizable 3D virtual worlds, and Darwin is behind Evolver, a 3D avatar creation tool.
Most recently, Evolver opened up into a Web tool for users to create avatars and share them [...]

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Four critical directions for virtual environment technology

February 4th, 2010 MaxPing
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Intellectual production are the main engine of the economy, as considerably bigger part of the gross world product is being earned with intellectual work than with handwork. Handwork is being done in our three dimensional physical environment and produces tangible results. While the intellectual work produces intangible, i.e. virtual results, and being done in a [...]

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SUMARIO ENERO 2010

February 4th, 2010 MaxPing
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