Posts Tagged ‘ google-lively ’

2008 Metaverse Tour Video: The Social Virtual World’s A Stage

Aug 5th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Featured Articles, Social Media, Virtual Worlds

Gary Hazlitt, Gazlitt and me take a ‘break’ in over fifty worlds comprising the current metaverse, here is the holiday video…
I am doing a commercial report and curriculum development on the evolving range of social virtual worlds and have recently ventured into fifty of them to review and sample the culture, creative, business and educational [...]

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The Avatars Take Over the Asylum - Layered ‘Social’ Virtual Worlds

Jul 20th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Innovation, Last Post, Media Personalizing, Transformation, Virtual Worlds, Web 3.0

Fed up with your avatar having to live inside a wall-garden world? Want to bring it out into the wider web to play? Well it seems a revolution is at hand, early days and a few notable services listed below, but keep your eyes peeled as virtual characters start to infiltrate our flat 2D web [...]

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Google Lively Machinima Potential

Jul 10th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Last Post, Virtual Worlds, Web 3.0

Although this new soon to be ubiquitous virtual world is not as vastly customisable as Second Life it has some nice useful, linear machinima features such as the rather quaint preset animations and its obvious cartoon aesthetic. I just put together a quick sequence of some of the ’solo’ animations of the toons up onto [...]

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