VRScout

AUGUST 18, 2017

Virtual Iraq VRET was developed from 2005-2007 as an answer to the military’s problem at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies. “Whenever I design a VR application in a clinical area, I look at, okay, what do we know works in the real world that we can use VR to amplify, or extend the effect?”

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ARVR

JUNE 16, 2021

Virtual reality is described as a “three-dimensional, computer-generated environment which can be explored and interacted with by a person. That person becomes part of this virtual world or is immersed within this environment and whilst there, is able to manipulate objects or perform a series of actions.” (“What is Virtual Reality?”,

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 30, 2022

Even in 2007, when Apple announced the first iPhone, Steve Jobs was keen to get rid of the stylus for touchscreen management, arguing separate controllers and devices make using technology more cumbersome. Gaze allows us to look around in an environment enhanced by AR, MR, or VR, and determine which virtual objects to interact with.

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Ryan Schultz

JANUARY 23, 2024

As I mentioned in a previous blogpost , I have been invited to give a lecture on Second Life for a graduate-level virtual worlds building and design course being taught this semester at my university, co-taught by a computer science professor and an interior design professor. Here’s to another sixty trips* around the sun!

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Ryan Schultz

JANUARY 19, 2023

Over the five-and-a-half years that I have been writing this blog, I slowly broadened my coverage to report on other early social virtual reality platforms, such as AltspaceVR, VRChat, and Linden Lab’s founding CEO Philip Rosedales’ ambitious project, High Fidelity.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

And then slowly and surely, we picked up the business up to 2007, 2008. There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. And then we had crash 2001 and then we had another crash in 2007. A billion dollar to spend on virtual worlds.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

And then slowly and surely, we picked up the business up to 2007, 2008. There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. And then we had crash 2001 and then we had another crash in 2007. A billion dollar to spend on virtual worlds.

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Ryan Schultz

JANUARY 14, 2024

Those of us who are veterans of Second Life (and I have been a part of SL since spring of 2007) tend to forget the steep learning curve which tends to perplex newbies, and often leads to many of those new users to give up somewhere along the onboarding and orientation process, walking away from SL and never coming back.

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Ryan Schultz

MAY 4, 2024

Second Life is an enormous virtual world and we have to walk a very fine line between policing and preserving freedoms while also protecting the future growth and health of Second Life as a platform that respects diversity and creative expression among our community. Not so much.

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Ryan Schultz

APRIL 7, 2023

People whose introduction to the concept of the metaverse started with VRChat, Horizon Worlds, and other social VR platforms may question why I choose to write so often and so fondly about Second Life, a virtual world which was launched in 2003, well before the advent of consumer-grade virtual reality headsets.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

And then slowly and surely, we picked up the business up to 2007, 2008. There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. And then we had crash 2001 and then we had another crash in 2007. A billion dollar to spend on virtual worlds. I'm quitting VR.

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HaptX

JANUARY 18, 2018

New Frontier started in 2007 with a mission to push the boundaries of entertainment through independent transmedia storytelling, multi-media installations, and performance art. The first is its HaptX Glove prototype, which simulates the feeling of virtual objects with incredibly precise fidelity. What is New Frontier?

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AR Insider

AUGUST 25, 2021

Firstly, the term ‘metanomics,’ in relation to virtual worlds and the economy within, is something Doug Thompson was involved in more than a decade ago and ran a show within Second Life and a series of podcasts with the same name. The virtual equivalent of Amsterdam was sold in Second Life for $50,000 in 2007.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Since the iPhone introduced multi-touch input in 2007, we’ve seen 2D touchscreen interaction design evolve into a responsive, motion-filled language. Users don’t always know what to expect, and dynamic feedback helps to build a mental model of how the virtual world works, and what each action achieves.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 9, 2015

Chris Platz is a virtual world builder, game designer, entrepreneur, and artist who creates interactive multimedia experiences with both traditional tabletop and computer-based game systems. His real claim to fame is making interactive stories and worlds for Dungeons and Dragons for over 30 years.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Though the developers call it a “narrative VR action adventure,” the narrative turns out to be extremely light—bordering on mere lore and setting—with tidbits delivered as brief but well produced live-action videos that play on monitors in the virtual world.

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Ryan Schultz

MARCH 6, 2023

My oldest Second Life avatar, with the legacy name of Heath Homewood, was created on March 20th, 2007, which means that in a couple of weeks he will be sixteen years old! It was somehow reassuring that, in a virtual world that was full of changes, I had found yet another place where time seemed to stand still.

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Ryan Schultz

MARCH 27, 2023

A little over a year ago, I blogged about Straszfilm’s thoughtful and nostalgic video essay on Active Worlds , which can be considered the granddaddy of virtual worlds, founded on June 28th, 1995, and somehow still limping along 27-¾ years later. And, as a fellow virtual worlds nerd myself, I really enjoyed it!

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Bernard Marr

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Their audiences are digital natives and are keen to do business with companies that share their understanding and enthusiasm for virtual worlds and gaming-style environments. Transferring this money into the real world involves exchanging it for real currencies, which are paid into a bank account. It’s all about image.

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ARVR

AUGUST 21, 2020

But the consensus reality of the digital world is available only if, like his thirteen-year-old granddaughter Miri, you know how to wear your wireless access?—?through Winner of the 2007 Hugo Award for Best Novel. through nodes designed into smart clothes?—?and and to see the digital context?—?through through smart contact lenses.”

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HaptX

JANUARY 9, 2018

For example, there are over a billion videogame controllers currently in the market, and that’s a big deal—it suggests that haptics tech has already had a major impact on the way that we interact with virtual worlds. The Novint Falcon provided force feedback but was limited in its versatility. Source: Wired.com.

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Hypergrid Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Pornhub Awards Show to bring Virtual Reality to the Masses. Combining live VR streaming and a massively multiuser VR virtual world will deliver two breakthroughs for the premier of the Pornhub Awards Show on September 6, 2018. Utherverse Digital is the leading developer of the Virtual World Web (VWW), a software platform.

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