The Metaverse Journal - Virtual World News

The Watch – virtual worlds in the news

1. Escapist Magazine (USA) – Women Beat Men in Virtual Shopping Habits. “The shopping habits of women compared to men in virtual worlds may reflect those stereotypically seen in the real world. I’m not being sexist here: Ask 100 women if they like to shop or not and I bet you’d get a lot of [...]

Weekend Whimsy

1. Coaching Philip Linden: Behind the Scenes of Second Life Speech Preparation 2. Underground Duck Boxing in Second Life 3. REBIRTH “SECOND LIFE MOVIE PART 2

Merged realities – events and issues for virtual worlds

1. Want to win 140-thousand Linden dollars? Then make a machinima and submit it to the University of Western Australia’s competition. 2. Veteran platform OLIVE has announced new pricing and a perpetual licensing model. 3. The dynamos at ReactionGrid have launched Jibe, a web-based world based on the increasingly popular Unity3D engine. 4. Frenzoo are [...]

The Watch – virtual worlds in the news

1. BBC (UK) – View from the end of the world. “Taking a journey to the end of the world might not be for everyone, but in the virtual spaces of gaming and online environments, it’s not as dangerous as it might seem. Robert Overweg in the Netherlands has been capturing virtual spaces since 2007 [...]

Weekend Whimsy

1. NoR AMV – Armies Gathering 2. Anna’s day out in Second Life 3. We Love Organica

Have your say on the internet filter: it’s delayed but not forgotten

Sorry, this is really for Australian readers only: a large number of Australian media sites are running a common poll on the proposed internet filter. Sure, it’s a very simple question, and there’ll no doubt be some debate over its wording, but it really has one intention: to get a idea of wider community perceptions [...]

The Watch – virtual worlds in the news

1. The Guardian (UK) – Ten years of virtual worlds: Habbo hits a decade. “Virtual worlds might have been an entertaining diversion for big media a couple of years back, but for a massive swathe of web users these are a powerful and important part of their online lives. Far from being a flash in [...]