Posts in the "Virtual Worlds" Category

• Make it

  Animation
  

  On Friday we launched a new range of courses at AFTRS to be run in 2009. More information can be found here. Among the new courses are Graduate Diplomas in Game Design, Animation Directing and Virtual Worlds. The unique approach of these courses is to share core coursework in Directing Concepts and Skills, Emerging Media [...]

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• My World

  Innovation
  A student at Arizona State University has posted on a Mac rumours forum some observations about a new 3D social network being developed and tested there. The blogosphere has since come alive with rumours that Google is about to launch ‘My World’, a virtual world/social network which may link to Google Earth and Maps applications. [...]

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• Games/Film or Games/Architecture

  Architecture
  Listened to a great podcast from GDC which is an interview with author and Halo screenwriter DB Weiss. This is a quote from the interview which I found particularly interesting as we’ve been talking a lot about the games/film relationship lately. Particularly interesting for production design, design of storyworlds and virtual environments. Click here to [...]

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• 2nd Life as a business communications tool

  Virtual Worlds
  Read an interesting article in Fortune magazine which has just come out explaining the phenomenon of 2nd life. While investors are obviously looking for the next MySpace or YouTube, the article profiles how IBM are using 2nd life as a business tool and see great potential in this space. My first introduction to 2nd life [...]

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