Darren Herman

I bet you didn’t think you’d be able to watch Wimbledon within Second Life, did you? Ian Hughes has been developing a full Wimbledon environment within Second Life with the following:

security gate is there to show you can detect things about peoples avatars
RSS weather feed globe
world tracking data for actual tennis matches
The flying wimbledon [...]

As a huge fan of live music and also an avid virtual world inhabitant, I’m ecstatic when the two worlds collide. An article came out late yesterday on MTV.com with the title, Are Virtual U2 Concerts Even Better Than The Real Thing?
This is a great article that shares insight into the virtual world concert [...]

As many of you know, I am an active Second Life’r under the name Jay Prevost and tend to follow all the businesses starting in/around the virtual world. While reading my RSS feeds this morning, Mark Wallace alluded to American Apparel opening a virtual store on a private island within Second Life.
Aimee Weber designed [...]

I’m not sure if it’s the weather, or something else, but in one of my circles of friends, I’ve been fortunate to be within, avatars are the hot topic of late. Again, a key issue that comes up repeatedly is the standardization of avatars which will allow them to become portable. Once they [...]

It’s not a game. Don’t get caught saying it. Second Life is a virtual world that could have games within, but as a whole, it’s a virtual world. This persistent world is an extension of reality – not another world. I believe that it should not be looked at as another [...]

What is an avatar? According to Acad.org, an avatar is a graphical image of a user, such as used in graphical real-time chat applications, or, a graphical personification of a computer or a computer process, intended to make the computing or network environment a more friendly place.Â
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Today, lots of different applications are using [...]

I spent some time tonight exploring Meeze. I’m interested to see the progress of the company over the next 6 months, but they are onto something promising. I’ve attached “myself”
Tags:Â Meez, avatar, and Virtual World

The web is finally coming alive. It’s not that this is new, but consumers are finally adopting this moreso in the past and we’re seeing some great new startups emerge into the avatar & virtual world space.Â
Meez is the latest startup that has landed funding ($4.3mm) and was recently in Forbes Magazine (March [...]