Archive for June, 2007
Last weeks Virtual Goods Summit mashed up with the Metaverse Roadmap and PwC’s prediction that the global entertainment and media industry will hit $2 trillion by 2011 promises interesting conversations lie ahead this week.
What percentage of this $2 trillion will flow in-world? Does a brave new world await TV virtually as David Itzkoff discussed in [...]
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Second Earth is the aptly titled cover story of this July/August edition of MIT Technology Review. Wade Roush connects Social Virtual Worlds, Mirror Worlds, Mobile augmented reality and sensor networks to envision Second Earth.
Unlike many writers who have written pieces featuring Second Life to-date Wade has taken up residence in-world for a couple of months [...]
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CNN Future Summit: Virtual Worlds aired on June 13th on CNN International. Originating from Singapore and Palo Alto, California, the program features creative visionaries and entrepreneurs leading us into a new age of creativity and imagination.
CNN Future Summit : Virtual Worlds serves as a good primer for those new to the space. Kristie Lu Stout [...]
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