Rik Riel

I guess we'll know if it works in a couple of months if the user retention rate improves. My guess is that it will, if only because anything would be better than the 10% they are currently at.

And the folks at the Ill Clan were involved in producing this, and they always do quality work.

I think some of the most exciting virtual environment stuff is happening in OpenSim, particularly Rezzable's work in Heritage Key and the various experiments going on in the Reaction Grid.

I guess the Amsterdam office will be the "mature" section of the operation.

Orange Island is one of the best examples of a company that "got" Second Life. Rather than build a shiny 3d homage to themselves, they understood that what made SL a unique platform was the resident communities of users that were already there. So they sponsored concerts, talks, and other user-focused events on their island that brought thousands to their sim and created I think a lot of goodwill toward their brand.

Kudos to VW development company Metaversatility for excellent work of this project.

In related news, the US Army is asking the public to help the government use virtual worlds for training and analysis.

http://www.betterverse.org/2009/09/federal-virtual-world-challenge-launched.html

Other tough requirements for SL:
• Have the ability to display and read documents in common formats such as MS Office and Adobe.
• Support up to 200 avatars in the same area.
• Access the virtual world by allowing phone based attendees (those without access to a PC) to hear and be heard in-world. Full record and playback of all activities conducted in-world
• Import own 3D objects. Supports large area and multi-resolution terrain data in a WGS-84 compliant, geospatially-referenced format

oh those crazy Danes! Looks like a lot of fun.

I wonder if the old Justice League Unlimited will show up?

Looks like they are well along their way toward their goal, with $240K raised before the Relay has even officially started!

http://www.rikomatic.com/blog/2009/07/second-life-relay-for-life-raises-240k-for-cancer-research-before-official-start.html

That's a very weird policy. But where is your proof that this actually occurs? And has WB or the sim owners been contacted to verify that this is policy?

About bloody time.