Posts Tagged ‘ virtual_worlds ’

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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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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Talk: The Sex, the Violence and the Dirty Money: The Truth about Social Virtual Worlds

Jul 1st, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Conference, Last Post, Law, Social Issues & Privacy, Speaking, Virtual Worlds

The slides below are from a presentation I did last week at the Monash Law Chambers as part of a four speaker mix on Law and Regulation of Virtual Worlds. The embed below has just been elevated as a slideshare featured presentation - so goes to show what a catchy title will do. I co-presented [...]

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Innovating Global Social Media Experiences and Collaborative Entertainment Production

Jun 23rd, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Cross Media, Featured Articles, Innovation, LAMP, Media Personalizing, Participatory Media, Speaking

As promised a rough transcript of a presentation I gave as part of the Digital Content Session at the Trilateral KANZ Broadband Summit in Seoul on 19 June 2008. It looks at the emerging nature of Social Media Entertainment but focuses on how creative professionals can keep up with ‘the crowd’. Covers how Film, TV [...]

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Law and Regulation of Virtual Worlds Seminar, ‘me talk…’

Jun 23rd, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Last Post, Law, Speaking, Virtual Worlds, Web 3.0

For those folk who fancy a trip down to Monash University Law Chambers on Wednesday 25 June and who want to see where ‘Underbelly’ meets Social Virtual Worlds and Online Games well we have just the seminar for you. My opening talk’s title “The Sex, the Violence and the Dirty Money: The Truth about Social [...]

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Mashing the Real and the Virtual

Feb 13th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Alternate Reality, Cross Media, Events, Locative, Media Personalizing, Mixed Reality, Transformation, Virtual Reality, Virtual Worlds, Web 3.0

I am very interested in Mixed or Cross Reality advances at the moment. Over the past 6 months there have been some great trials and even a few commercial enterprises set up including Total Immersion. But a couple of trials caught our attention in the last couple of weeks. The first (virtual into real) in [...]

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