Posts Tagged ‘ representational ’

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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Brand and Media Survival Guide to Virtual Worlds - talk transcript

May 6th, 2007 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Alternate Reality, Brands, Distribution, Games, Media Personalizing, Mixed Reality, On-demand, Profiling, Revolution, Second Life, Social Software, Targeting, Transformation, Virtual Reality, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

NOTE: Based on my sticky post ‘The Brand Owners Guide to Joining the Metaverse“.
As promised a rough transcript of my keynote talk to CeBit last week based on my experience of actually building some Second Life sims, talking to those who use them and creating branded environments that have more usage than any others inworld, [...]

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The Brand Owners Guide to Joining the Metaverse

Feb 4th, 2007 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Advertising, Brands, Featured Articles, Games, Innovation, Media Personalizing, Personalization, Portals, Revolution, Second Life, Social Software, TV, Transformation, Virtual Worlds, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

or thirteen non-exhaustive tips for organisations considering becoming stars in the new web 3.0 revolution…
I have mentioned before that I am currently working on a couple of major and one or two minor media companies first forays into the metaverse, or its most accessible incarnation Second Life. I can’t talk about them directly of course [...]

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Witnessing the Birth of An Entertainment Form

Dec 6th, 2006 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Alternate Reality, Brands, Creativity, Cross Media, Distribution, Divergence, Events, Featured Articles, Games, Innovation, Interactive TV, On-demand, Production, Second Life, Social Software, TV, Transformation, Virtual Reality, Virtual Worlds, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

The Relentless March of Channels and Formats into Second Life

Rather than just referring to the many standard press articles about the growing number of companies or formats that are setting up in Second Life (the media’s favourite MUVE at the moment) I have been ‘living it’ so to speak. My inworld blog JustVirtual provides an [...]

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Putting the Space in Virtual - Second Life

Jul 22nd, 2006 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Alternate Reality, Creativity, Events, Games, Media Personalizing, Personalization, Production, Second Life, Social Software, Story Telling, Virtual Reality

A quote to start off yet another Virtual World post…
“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion” Democritus (Greek philosopher, 460-370bc)

We live in a world where you don’t need to eat or drink, you cannot die or harm yourself, you can breathe underwater and you can fly? Add to this our [...]

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Immersion - Ambient TV, Addictive MMORPG…

Jun 2nd, 2006 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Alternate Reality, Creativity, Cross Media, Games, Innovation, Interactive TV, Media Personalizing, Mobile, On-demand, Personalization, Production, Second Life, Social Software, Story Telling, TV, Transformation

…and the never changing human.
Senor Hontar: “We must work in the world. The world is thus.”
Father Altamirano: “No Senor Hontar…thus have we made the world. Thus have I made it”
Final lines of the film ‘The Mission’
There have been several events this week that have focused my attention on the nature of immersion. Within AFTRS and [...]

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The Personalization of Second Life

May 20th, 2006 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Alternate Reality, Games, Innovation, Media Personalizing, Personalization, Portals, Revolution, Second Life, Social Issues & Privacy, Social Software, Story Telling, Transformation, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

What is driving the current shared, participatory virtual spaces? Giving audiences seemingly unlimited personalization and social structure, means big business, if it can be contained within a walled garden where everything you do is chargeable. A phenomenal strategy driving all web 2.0 services at the moment. Second life now with 200 000 plus subscribers and [...]

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