Posts Tagged ‘research’
Virtual worlds research conference in Second Life
When Linden Lab removed the land tier discount for academic and non-profit institutions, and most organisations simply moved to an OpenSim-grid instead, one started to see less and less announcements about academia in Second Life — with research grants cut to a bare minimum, SL tier, specially for long-lived projects requiring a lot of virtual space, is simply not affordable for most research projects. Still, OpenSim is not Second Life. It’s…
Too busy for blogging :P
I’m not dead yet, I’m sadly just too busy to blog about things… but have lots of pending ideas to write about So, what I’ve been busy with? Mostly about getting some things done for an international workshop on virtual archaeology (if you’re in Lisbon on Friday with little to do, feel free to drop by — attendance is free, most sessions will be in English, and there are really…
SLActions — Mixed-media research conference
So how do you get hundreds of researchers to simultaneously present their papers at different places in the world, on a conference spanning the globe? The ingenuous solution: use Second Life. Starting today, and going on until the 26th, SLactions is live. Researchers in virtual worlds all over the world will be presenting their work and results to their colleagues, and they’re using Second Life to join the conference. So…
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