Posts Tagged with ‘linden-lab’

There’s an interesting announcement on the blog of Second Life, probably still the best-known and the most popular virtual reality project. Today the team is announcing Linden Prize, a contest with the $10,000 in prize money to be paid to a member or a team of Second Life residents for the most innovative inworld project that will improve real lives outside of the virtual world.
The applications are accepted starting today so if you already have an inworld project that you [...]

Almost a year and a half ago, Colbert Low posted here on Profy that the future of the Web would be 3D applications, or virtual worlds, with Second Life leading the pack. It's amazing to me that so much could have changed in such a short amount of time.
Today it was announced EA Land, which was formerly called The Sims Online and rebranded only a short time ago, will be shuttering before the end of summer. The Sims Online was [...]

When virtual worlds – Second Life, in particular – first went online, there was considerable buzz built around the newly established market. Their dimensions were fresh with intrigue and interesting possibilities, and, well, lots of people ran with those ideas. In the months following its launch, Second Life took off in a big way. Later, however, after all the bubble wrap was removed and all users took to their own personal roles, so to speak, things kind of grew stagnant. [...]

Picture this. You’re at home, inside an Internet café, or library laced with WiFi, and you hear – through an email notification, an IM, etc. – that there’s a concert going on someplace. It’d be great if you could see it live. But you can’t, for a myriad of reasons. Would you then opt for a virtual sit-in of sorts?
Some businesses, many of which sprouted due to the success of the Web experiment that placed the worldwide Live 8 [...]

If a crime occurs in a virtual world, is it still illegal?
As social networks which utilize virtual worlds become more popular, it's inevitable that some virtual events may occur that violate the laws of the citizens' own real-world countries. Right now, the offline world is still catching up with the online one, so we are literally watching a culture develop right before our eyes, complete with all the issues you'd expect of a new civilization.
One site is already dedicated to [...]

G-men descended on Second Life's gambling casinos at the request of the virtual world's creator Linden Lab. The FBI has not made a determination about the legality of the site's virtual gambling and the agents probably felt pretty naked without their guns and badges too. Second Life has requested review of this issue several times in an effort to head off any issues that may cause problems. Until now FBI officials have been reluctant to take a look around (probably [...]

Having heard the murmurs come out of Linden Lab to become the curious Second Life several years ago, and having watched it grow to a (allegedly) multi-million-strong world of avatars, where digital nookie lit red is as secretive and under-the-table as it is in reality and where some members manage to create fake stuff in exchange for real currency, I have to say I’m disturbed. Not about the adult activity. I couldn’t care less about that. It’s that the virtual world [...]