Category Archives: Virtual Worlds (Other)

Second Life on the Jon Stewart show

2008/04/08 – 8:43 am

There’s not a great deal to say about this, other than that as a fan of both Second Life and The Daily Show, I thought it was pretty great.  It was, in my humble opinion, a thousand times more entertaining than the real-life event, which didn’t seem to serve any real purpose whatsoever, and wasn’t [...]

By Takuan | Also posted in Second Life, WTF | Comments (4)

Virtual Worlds for Business – IBM creates OpenSIM Data Center

2008/02/25 – 11:14 am

Virtual World News had an article a couple of days ago on IBM’s announcement that they had built a 3D data center simulation using OpenSim, which I found particularly fascinating because I have long believed that the potential of Virtual Worlds like Second Life® and OpenSimulator was far larger and with potential for much broader [...]

By Takuan | Also posted in Opinion, Real-world in SL, Second Life, Software Development, ramblings | Comments (1)

RealXtend joins OpenSim

2008/02/17 – 12:32 pm

Over at UgoTrade and Massively there’s a buzz going about realXtend joining the OpenSim project, and I have got to say that this announcement (and the accompanying screenshots and video) marks perhaps the first time that I’ve gotten truly excited about a virtual world other than Second Life®.
Let me start with the goodies before I [...]

By Takuan | Also posted in Second Life, Software Development | Comments (6)