Posts Tagged ‘ webkinz ’

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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1 MR Killer App, 2 iPhone Home 3 Mirror Mirror

Feb 13th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Alternate Reality, Creativity, Cross Media, Devices, Innovation, Mixed Reality, Mobile, On-demand, Virtual Reality, Virtual Worlds, Web 3.0, iphone, viral

1 Mixed Reality Killer App
OK a ‘give us your comment’ competition. Below an oldie but goody clip from CeBit 2006 but what do you think is the main killer application for this particular synchronous interface? - (no sneaking ideas by reading the hundreds of comments on it’s YouTube page!).
2 iPhone Home

Above ‘me browsing the lamp [...]

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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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