Posts Tagged ‘ neopets ’

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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The 3D Metaverse is Only about Sex!

Feb 13th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Alternate Reality, Brands, Distribution, Mixed Reality, Personalization, Second Life, Social Issues & Privacy, TV, Transformation, Virtual Worlds, Web 3.0

…or so it seems by the constant line of broadcasters (ABC, SBS, CBC, C4 and endless news reports) who deliver so called ‘insights’ into the growing phenomenon of Social Virtual Worlds. The new BBC doco aired a couple of nights ago (YouTube segments embedded below) brought to mind reasons why traditional media companies may want [...]

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The Mixed Reality Perfect Storm

Jun 5th, 2007 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Alternate Reality, Brands, Creativity, Cross Media, Events, Games, Innovation, Mixed Reality, Production, Revolution, Second Life, Social Software, TV, Transformation, Virtual Reality, Virtual Worlds, Web 3.0

“Mixed Reality is the merging of real world and virtual worlds to produce new environments where physical and digital objects can co-exist and interact in real-time.” Wikipedia

“I think we are really approaching a perfect storm, a mixed reality perfect storm, because we are seeing several things happening. The first one is a long history of [...]

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