Posts Tagged ‘Second Life’

Combat games are nothing new, but now the Department of Defense is testing the concepts of battlefield games and virtual worlds to help soldiers explore the causes and symptoms of combat trauma. The newly released virtual world game “T2 Virtual PTSD Experience“, is designed to enable soldiers and their loved ones to find out more [...]

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Second Life was rocked yesterday by an announcement that “Emerald”, an open source software client that can access Linden Lab’s 3D virtual world, had been de-listed from the company’s directory of approved, third-party viewers. This news came days after revelations that Emerald’s mysterious lead developer had used the software in a denial-of-service attack provoked unrest [...]

ResLive is a new 3D web-based virtual world which aims to become the ultimate destination for live music performances in an MMO space. (Though still in early Beta, you can join now with a special Social Times code at the end of this post.) As a number of musicians and DJs have learned, 3D worlds [...]

What happened to Second Life since it was hyped as the Internet’s next generation a few years ago? Today tech personality and Gnomedex host Chris Pirillo offered a remarkably misguided analysis: “Nothing really ‘happened’ to it other than being overrun by people addicted to porn and gambling,” he asserts. Literally everything about that sentence is [...]

Tomorrow, Second Life creator Philip Rosedale will give Linden Lab’s corporate strategy presentation to the company’s customers, at the most perilous time in the virtual world’s history. A darling of the Internet industry only three scant years ago, Linden’s profitability has been eroded by company efforts to turn SL into a real world business platform [...]

Friends Hangout is a new web-based virtual world in open Beta that’s been gaining a lot of attention from fans of the genre. As a special offer to Social Times readers, you can click this link to get 2000 extra virtual tokens to spend, when you create a free account. Developed by a small Tampa [...]

Greetings, Social Timers — I’m joining the team here to occasionally cover virtual worlds, a space that often gets overlooked amid the social game hype, but is still doing quite well, thank you very much. Prior to Nick and Neil bringing me on, I was a writer and designer at ohai, the massively social gaming [...]

Could there be real legal rights attached to the ownership of real estate on the internet? Should there be? The case of Carl Evans v. Linden Labs is tackling that issue, where plaintiffs are the owners of virtual real property. In the class action lawsuit, users of the virtual world Second Life are claiming that [...]