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Mindmapping Oculus Rift

By rolandlegrand | June 29, 2014 - 4:07 pm |June 29, 2014 education, games, hardware, second life, social media, virtual worlds

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I’m still working on the Oculus Rift coverage and will meet users and developers. I made a wiki mind map (so you can add, change to it) about Oculus, using sources such as the Oculus subreddit and Wired Magazine. Scanning the reviews and reactions it seems obvious that Virtual Reality… Continue reading →

Race against the machine meets radical transparency

By rolandlegrand | April 2, 2012 - 12:05 am |September 25, 2012 hardware, real time

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In the book Race against the machine, written by the MIT-researchers Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, one of the examples of the exponential technological development is the self-driving Google car. Google claims to have safely completed over 200,000 miles of computer-led driving, even though there is some discussion about this…. Continue reading →

The future of money

By rolandlegrand | July 25, 2011 - 9:55 pm |July 25, 2011 blogging, cloud computing, games, hardware, second life, social media, virtual goods, virtual worlds

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Facebook Credits becoming more important than the dollar? Not any time soon – but there are some thought-provoking elements in this discussion about the future of money (by Ross Dawson and Gerd Leonhard). Recently Ben Bernanke got the question whether gold is money. The answer was ‘no’. But maybe we’ll… Continue reading →

HTML5 becomes a crucial tool for publishers

By rolandlegrand | June 16, 2011 - 11:17 pm |June 16, 2011 software development

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In the previous post I mentioned HTML5 – it could be an important element of a solution running Second Life and OpenSim viewers on the web. It would be combined with WebGL (Web-based Graphics Library) which extends the capability of the JavaScript programming language to allow it to generate interactive… Continue reading →

Talking about virtual worlds outside virtual worlds: The WELL

By rolandlegrand | January 4, 2011 - 9:12 pm |January 4, 2011 art, chat, culture, design, events, social media, virtual worlds

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In our first blog about other venues where people discuss virtual worlds, we talked about Quora. While Quora is very new, The WELL is almost ancient: The WELL is a cherished and acclaimed destination for conversation and discussion. It is widely known as the primordial ooze where the online community… Continue reading →

Existential questions about virtual worlds

By rolandlegrand | December 18, 2010 - 12:13 am |December 18, 2010 augmented reality, chat, education, events, games, journalism, mobile, open source, opensim, real time, second life, social media, software development, virtual worlds

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It has been interesting to be away from virtual worlds stuff for a few weeks. I had some catching up to do, but at first sight it seems not much has changed. There is another famous Linden Lab employee leaving the company, Jack Linden. Other virtual worlds are presenting themselves… Continue reading →

Mary Meeker sees ‘unusually high level of global innovation’

By rolandlegrand | November 21, 2010 - 11:06 pm |November 21, 2010 games, mobile, real time, social media, telecom, virtual goods, virtual worlds

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Mary Meeker (Morgan Stanley) talks in her recent state of the internet about disruptive innovation: new or incumbent players disrupting whole industries by offering cheap or free products and services (Google, Amazon… ) or by creating new markets (Apple, Facebook, Zynga… ). One of the remarkable aspects of the recent… Continue reading →