Posts Tagged ‘ Virtual ’

When the Economy Gets Rough, Virtual Worlds Get Growing

Dec 11th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Advertising, Business, Last Post, Media Personalizing, Virtual Worlds

…and a little end of 2008 Virtual Worlds, State of Play…

Just back from a short break in the lovely town of Broome in NW Australia (my pics). It was interesting being disconnected from ‘the cloud’ but in the process having a few ‘virtual experiential’ moments. One of these was watching the controversial film ‘Australia’ in [...]

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Football Superstars, iPhone Ocarina, NBC WebTV and Lost in SL

Nov 17th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: LAMP, Marketing, Virtual Worlds, iphone

Another selection of my items cross-posted from another of my original blogs, lamp watercooler.
The Ulitmate Mashup Launches - Sport, MMOG & Social Virtual World - 16 Oct 08

Football Superstars is the world’s first Virtual Football World. An entire online virtual world designed by football fans exclusively for football fans, where you can enjoy a massively [...]

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Marketing to New XBox Experience and PS3 Home Avatars

Oct 10th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Advertising, Games, Last Post, Marketing, Media Personalizing, Portals, Targeting, Virtual Worlds

Interesting times ahead - the Console space finally collides with the Social Virtual World space as Sony and Microsoft race to be first to offer non-closed beta, ’social (read: commercial) virtual world’ front ends to their ‘trojan horse’ consoles. Will they start to reap the benefits of a very large installed user base as both [...]

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Games and Virtual Worlds: a new frontier of experience

Sep 23rd, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Education, Last Post, Virtual Worlds, Web 3.0

OK I had better blog this ‘press release‘ copied below which quotes me, but also as I am heavily involved in the creation of these courses and still running LAMP (the innovation unit at AFTRS). Frankly it is one of the best things to happen in Australian industry education for the last three years that [...]

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Watercooler XPosts: Webflock, Facespooks, MultiPlaces, Ubiquity, DS-10, Emily

Sep 9th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Last Post

A selection of mini posts I did in the last few weeks on the slightly 101 LAMP Watercooler blog…
Will they Flock to Electric Sheep’s SVW Browser?
Interesting enterprise development from California based, Electric Sheep Company (notable for doing branded developments across virtual worlds like There.com and Second Life) as well as cross-over, mixed reality gigs like [...]

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The Power of ‘Our’ Machinima

Sep 1st, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Last Post, Media Personalizing, Participatory Media, Virtual Worlds

Social Media and Web 2.0 is a lot about providing the tools and therefore the means for everyone to create content, that they believe others may want to see. I have personally created a lot of corporate, professional entertainment and music films over the years using high end equipment but now, like many millions around [...]

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Choose Your Own Adventure, Games and Virtual Worlds at AFTRS

Aug 25th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Cross Media, Education, Games, LAMP

“Make Games and Virtual Worlds at Australian Film, TV and Radio School” - OK time to wear that other hat as Director of the Laboratory for Advanced Media Production at AFTRS and plug some of the cool new courses we are delivering in 6 months time.
CREATE ENTERTAINMENT EXPERIENCES OF THE FUTURE
Discover new opportunities to express [...]

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