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Written by Clark Columbia
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Friday, 08 June 2007 |
 Second Life may face a new threat, the need to apply and enforce real law in its virtual world. A Pennsylvania court has denied two requests by Linden Lab, which would have ended the first legal challenge, Bragg v. Linden, to the Second Life creator. Instead, the decisions may grant greater rights and control of the online world to users.
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http://gameragdaily.com...
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Written by Clark Columbia
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Thursday, 07 June 2007 |
By Kate Greene
Today, a New York-based company called SpaceTime launched a new browser, free to download and use, that presents Web pages and search results as floating slabs that can be flipped through, organized, and navigated in 3-D. The graphics concepts are similar to those found in "first-person shooter" video games, in which players navigate an immersive virtual environment. But instead of shooting monsters, SpaceTime users can "fly" through search results such as Web pages, pictures, and eBay auction items. When a user turns her view to the left, the right, up, or down, she can see all the Web pages she has previously called up and zoom in on the one she wants. "SpaceTime is interesting because it constantly redraws the scene that you see ... just like a video game where you can assume any position," says Edward Bakhash, CEO of the company.
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Written by Clark Columbia
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Thursday, 07 June 2007 |
Second Life resident Dalian Hansen sends word that he will soon publish ANIMA, a novel set largely in the virtual world itself. From Dalian’s description:
Ben Tao is the avatar of a fired programmer who hacks Second Life. His goal is to profit from a false intellectual property claim. However, instead of changing the creation date for the items he has stolen, he is actually sending them back in time to the creation of the 3D world. This software exploit opens a wormhole of conflicting realities that unfold in a disjointed nightmare. Ben quickly finds himself controlled by an entity who robs him of all free will. Or is he just going insane? As the digital and real worlds merge in his mental interchange, he uncovers a secret that affects all of humanity. From this bleak future, Ben has only one chance to escape.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 14 June 2007 )
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Written by Clark Columbia
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Thursday, 07 June 2007 |
Trance Cosmos, software, and Sankei-Shinbun (newspaper) announced the foundation of a new company Cocoa. Cocoa will be starting a 3D virtual community service, "Meet-Me"? some time this year.
Meet-me is a 3D virtual community space where members use avatars to communicate with other members and enjoy the virtual world, such as America's Second Life
Trans Cosmos will be in charge of system administrations and business development, From Software 3DCG designing skills, and Sankei-Shinbun information distribution internally and externally. The field for "Meet-me" will start out with Shibuya, Tokyo, and eventually spread out to different areas in Tokyo. Landmarks such as 109, the department store in Shibuya and Tokyo Tower will be built in by Cocoa. Members will not be able to fly as they do in Second Life, but they will be able to walk 30km per hour. Another difference from Second Life is that Cocoa's market includes children as well. Therefore there will be no gambling or adult content and no plans for real money trading at this point either.
Cocoa aims to gather one million users by the end of 2008.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 14 June 2007 )
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Written by Enniv Zarf
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Thursday, 07 June 2007 |
By Mike Shields
Mimicking the popular Today show summer concert series, which takes place in real life on Rockefeller plaza in New York, NBC Universal will launch a series of concerts in the increasingly popular virtual world Second Life.
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http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news...
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Written by Enniv Zarf
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Thursday, 07 June 2007 |
By Jocelyn, Kaiser
An activist group is raising a ruckus about what it says may be the first effort to patent an entirely synthetic free-living organism. It says the patent application, filed by maverick genome sequencer Craig Venter's institute on an idea that has likely not yet been achieved, would tie up a new technology and could aid bioterrorists. But others say there's nothing new or surprising about the patenting effort.
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http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content...
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