Archive for August, 2008
NMC Campus Calendar :
Aug 27, 2008 12:42pm
The Virtual Worlds in Education Conference
Real Education in a Virtual World:
Using Online Virtual Environments for Teaching and Learning
Hosted and sponsored by East Carolina University
November 10 and 11, 2008: This event is held entirely in Second Life on the East Carolina University virtual campus (http://slurl.com/secondlife/ECU%20II/112/107/26)
The conference will be over a 48 -hour period. The schedule [...]
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NMC Virtual Worlds :
Aug 21, 2008 11:46am
Imagine flying over a pyramid shaped boat as a variety of tones from the engine combine to create a melody. That is just what visitors will get when they interact with the new virtual art collection created by Ball State University faculty in Second Life.
John Fillwalk, Ball State associate professor of art, and director of the Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts and Animation (IDIAA), is the lead artist on a project that will be showcased in Second Life beginning Sunday, ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 21, 2008 11:15am
I was intrigued in writing the previous story on the Wall V-2 performance as Debbie Trilling had provided as a resource this link which displays her SL profile in a web browser:
http://world.secondlife.com/resident/4e07f6d1-4598-4351-84fa-826ccb723ea8
Where does that link come from? I pondered. Obviously, the last part is some sort of asset ID, like each avatar has the equivalent of a texture's database ID. I poked around URLs at world.secondlife.com many of which return XML data, and my hunch is the search engine that ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 21, 2008 10:33am
If you have not caught the summer performances of the CARP's (Cybernetic Art Research Project) production of The Wall V-2 (Second Life performance of Pink Floyd's The Wall), this is your last chance to catch the show. Playing for the last few weeks at NMC Campus West, the show has been performed 28 times to more than 2000 avatars.
The LAST-EVER presentations of this unique, groundbreaking and immensely popular SL show will be this week; Friday August 22 ... more » »
NMC Virtual Worlds :
Aug 21, 2008 08:31am
So you think your avatar is pretty lifelike? Are you ready to cross the uncanny valley? Meet Emily.
The TimesOnline in the UK reports on Lifelike animation heralds new era for computer games.
Image Metrics, a company that specializes in realistic facial animations (they also do the animations in Grand Theft Auto), have notched up the realism of computer generated characters. Emily started with a video of an employee just talking:
then recreated the gestures, movement by movement, in a model. ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 18, 2008 08:26pm
And You Thought They Worked on Virtual Islands
Originally uploaded by cogdogblog.
I was in San Francisco this past weekend for WordCamp and for a Sunday stroll just wandered aimlessly along the Embarcadero and then back down Battery Street. I passed this almost non-descript brick building and almost missed the familiar hand logo, rather strange to see it on a real building.
No one was around, the lights were off, but yes, here is the real Linden Lab. The have real real ... more » »
NMC Campus Calendar :
Aug 15, 2008 09:17am
Greetings students, faculty and friends!
On August 19th, 2008 the Academic Outreach department will be hosting our first Second Life Open House from 9:00am – 4:00pm! Come join us on our virtual campus where you can experience East Carolina University in a new way.
For the educators, now is your chance to meet [...]
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CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 12, 2008 09:31am
Yesterday we took the massive audio equipment for NMC Studio One (that is a joke, we just use voice chat and WireTap Studio Pro) over to NMC Orientation to talk to Robins Hermano, who we learned is akin to the circus daredevils, by planning this fall to bring 700 of his accounting students into Second Life.
Robins RL avatar is Steve Hornik, an accounting professor in the College of Business Administration at University of Central Florida. Robins has been using ... more » »
NMC Campus Calendar :
Aug 11, 2008 10:09am
This week, on Tuesday, is a special Metanomics show you can catch on NMC Campus at Outreach. Do you think Second Life experience can deal with a user interface update? If so, this is a show for you.
Dusan Writer will reveal the winners of his L$800,000 contest to design a better user interface. Then [...]
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NMC Campus Calendar :
Aug 11, 2008 10:05am
Join us again this week at Outreach on NMC Campus for another Metanomics show. This time around, it features the use of Second Life to teach languages with guests from Language Lab.com
Metanomics sponsor Language Lab teaches foreign languages in Second Life. Their novel curriculum uses a staff of instructors and actor to immerse people [...]
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