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The Weekly Round-Up: 16.10.09
Round-Up While workers might create outlandish avatars to escape the restraints and monotony of their everyday lives, such behaviour may soon become a thing of the past as they are forced to dress their avatars... [16 Oct 2009]
Avatars made to wear a suit to work as the style police arrive
News While workers might create outlandish avatars to escape the restraints and monotony of their everyday lives, this may soon become a thing of the past as they are forced to dress their avatars... [09 Oct 2009]
Photos: The hottest tech out of the UK's Silicon Valley
Photo This allows avatars to react in a more lifelike fashion. Fledgling tech businesses from Cambridge were showing off everything from avatars with virtual emotions to plugs that can download video from the... [24 Sep 2009]
Are dinosaur managers and poor teaching holding back Digital Britain?
News But on the other hand it's a risk averse world, it's a world that isn't particularly inclined to look ahead at emerging technologies like virtual worlds, social networks - how do you embrace those for business and how do you use... [23 Sep 2009]
Twitter unveils official retweet API
News It displays the user avatars of members who have retweeted a given tweet below the original, "collapsing" them into a single space. The development team at Twitter has released a mockup of its forthcoming "retweet API" -... [21 Sep 2009]
Photos: Inside a virtually perfect hospital
Photo Student's avatars must stick to the same rules they would obey in a normal hospital, checking in and getting their ID from reception and washing their hands, as seen here. The wards are spotless, there are plenty of beds... [20 May 2009]
Writing Commerce Scripts in Second Life
White Paper From a commerce standpoint, direct transfer between avatars works fine for in-person service purchases, such as hiring another user to build something; however, for a store owner selling goods, direct money transfer is... [22 Dec 2008]
Five virtual alternatives to meetings
Comment Unilever has its own private office on a sunny island in Second Life, which it uses to educate staff about the importance of data security - with staff avatars hijacked by purple dragons to highlight security weaknesses. [19 Nov 2008]
Online retailer tackles Gok Wan's fashion army
Case Study In the future the system, installed in September this year, will help support even more resource heavy upgrades that will let shoppers dress avatars in the virtual outfits and view of shoes from 360 degrees. [11 Nov 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Synthetic people
Comment I've just been looking at avatars and synthetic people over the past 15 years and must say the progress that's been made is very impressive - from the 'blocky and doll like' mannequins we currently see on social websites... [11 Nov 2008]
Virtual worlds need killer app
Comment The virtual world Qwaq, for example, allows users to create rooms where team members can store and share documents, leave messages for each other and hold discussions using their avatars, IM and even VoIP. [04 Nov 2008]
Inbox: Worried about pink slips? Here's some advice
Comment Instead of squeals of joy at a new penguin, avatars are being placed in training seminars, meetings, visual warehouse management and much more. The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought-provoking of the... [03 Nov 2008]
Photos: Second Life gets down to business
Photo Avatars can jump into the company's 308 RC Z concept car and take a test drive. Visitors to the Microsoft island can take the virtual weight off their avatars' feet and check out some video content.... [31 Oct 2008]
Virtual worlds set for second coming
Comment The virtual world Qwaq, for example, allows users to create rooms that can store documents relating to a project, and where team members can meet up to share those documents and discuss the project using their avatars,... [27 Oct 2008]
Photos: Five virtual worlds you need to know about
Photo IBM's work has spawned a new feature in the site, with Big Blue developing a way of teleporting avatars between OpenSim and Second Life. Qwaq is essentially a virtual office where teams within organisations can work... [21 Oct 2008]
