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Some shops opened with a fanfare then quietly closed. Not long ago Second Life was everywhere, with businesses opening branches and bands playing gigs in this virtual world. Today you'd be forgiven for asking if it's still going. Once upon a time Second Life had a Twitter level of hype. Even those without a cartoon [...]

A ruined Highlands castle has been recreated in a virtual world on the internet. The castle has been recreated twice on Second Life. Invergarry was burned down by Oliver Cromwell’s forces in 1654. It was rebuilt, but ransacked by government soldiers after the Battle of Culloden. The MyGlengarry.com Conservation Trust has "built" two versions of [...]

ScienceDaily (July 3, 2009) — Do friends wear the same style of shoe or see the same movies because they have similar tastes, which is why they became friends in the first place? Or once a friendship is established, do individuals influence each other to adopt like behaviors? Avatars in Second Life hang out in [...]

Is this the first step in unifying virtual worlds? A couple of years ago, Linden Labs’ Second Life was all the rage, with thousands of dollars invested by companies such as Coca-Cola and Nike to develop an online presence. The virtual world didn’t exactly end up living up to its potential, but those companies who [...]

first glimpse at how well the Wii Balance Board works in a skating game. We recently took our first look at Skate It, EA Black Box’s upcoming spin-off of last year’s critically acclaimed skateboarding game, Skate. Instead of using Skate’s dual-joystick "flick it" controls, Skate It is strictly about the Wii’s motion controls. Well, at [...]

The man behind Second Life is stepping down from his role as head of the company that created the virtual world. Linden Lab founder Philip Rosedale will become the company’s chairman once a new head for the firm has been hired. In a statement Mr Rosedale he would stay at the company and work on [...]

Today’s video games and online virtual worlds give users the freedom to create characters in the digital domain that look and seem more human than ever before. But despite having your hair, your height, and your hazel eyes, your avatar is still little more than just a pretty face. A group of researchers from Rensselaer [...]

At the Virtual Worlds Salon last night, I met Lizzie Jackson, who is the first person to take a BBC-funded Phd at the University of Westminster, and who is planning a conference on Virtual Worlds for children.  We exchanged business cards, and I enquired whether she had established any links with home education groups at [...]