“The participants have proven that virtual worlds offer lots of space for entrepreneurship, and have convinced us with their creativity”, says Dr. Christoph Glatzel. He was part of the VVC jury – together with Prof. Miklos Sarvary from INSEAD, Spiegel Online editor Christian Stöcker and Florian Schweitzer from the Swiss BrainsToVentures venture capitalist. The jury [...]
Jane McGonigal was named one of the TR35 2006 young innovators changing the world through technology. Her work focuses on improving quality of life through reality-based gaming. She gave a wonderful presentation on Connecting Games with Reality at the Web 2.0 Summit last week.
Currently Lead Game Designer with the Institute for the Future Jane believes [...]
The Summer 2007 issue of Innovations has an interesting case study from Linden Lab CTO Cory Ondrejka. Titled “Collapsing Geography (Second Life, Innovation, and the Future of National Power)” it covers everything from the concepts of place and space to innovation within virtual worlds and is freely available to download as a PDF here.
Good to [...]