Submitted by philipwh on Nov 08, 2009, 11:42 PM

A conference on Futurism, held in Second Life.  The speakers for one session were right in saying that a blue dragon having introduced them would not be the strangest part of the talk.

Submitted by Anaventura on Sep 30, 2009, 01:35 AM

a very common mistake when using voice in SL is that residents accidentally leave their sound channel open... This causes often unwanted background noise. We made sure we warned about this beforehand and more than one time and we even sent tutorials on the voice features in SL for those that migth not be acquainted with it.

Submitted by Anaventura on Sep 30, 2009, 12:55 AM

I called problem #1 'keeping bodies away'. I am calling problem #2 "keeping bodies in".

Submitted by Anaventura on Sep 18, 2009, 06:14 PM

Besides Gary Sinese's scene in CSI NY where, to find a suspect, he needs access to a Second Life sim... there are other more orthodox ways to go about access in SL...

Submitted by amandaw on Sep 10, 2009, 09:13 PM

An experiment in making theatre viral through Second Life.

Submitted by Anaventura on Sep 09, 2009, 03:47 PM

... on the challenges of virtual conferences, with an emphasis on specific aspects posed by events where telepresence involves some type of *embodiment* (as it is the case with virtual worlds - VWs - with avatars).

Submitted by jonathan.tarr on Nov 13, 2008, 12:00 PM

As a sort of follow up to the Youtube tour of virtual worlds I wrote about in March, here is another great resource for learning about the ever-expanding list of virtual environments, and an opportunity to contribute your knowledge about them. Since this press release was disseminated yesterday, the number of virtual worlds represented on the wiki has grown from 74 to 76, and more are certainly on the way as users become aware of the wiki.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Oct 07, 2008, 08:27 AM
Suguru Goto, who gave a demo and was on a panel at HASTAC 07, has a new performance "netBody" with an augmented reality body suite, mime, and then in Second Life.  

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Dec 09, 2007, 10:10 AM
HASTAC Leader Ruzena Bajcsy's tele-immersion lab is featured on BBC's Visions of the Future. Is endless self-reinvention really possible?

Submitted by jonathan.tarr on Oct 15, 2007, 04:54 PM
As we close the application process for the DML Competition tonight, a look back at the images we used in our publicity campaign.