Posted on April 23, 2008 by Andrew Hoppin
This video is of the first 5 minutes of my presentation to the PSFK New York Conference on March 27th… There is a joke herein “[Second Life] is the best thing EVER!” that references a comment I made before the beginning of this video clip… Trust me- it’s funny if you see the whole thing. [...]
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Posted on April 8, 2008 by Andrew Hoppin
As part of the first ever US Congressional hearing simulcast with a virtual world (it wasn’t QUITE mixed-reality), the House Telecommunications & the Internet Subcommittee held a hearing last week entitled “Online Virtual Worlds: Applications and Avatars in a User-Generated Medium.”
During the hearing, Philip Rosedale, founder of Linden Lab, played a machinima video that featured [...]
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Posted on March 3, 2008 by Andrew Hoppin
Posting the PDF here so that anyone can access it… Thanks again to the entire NASA and non-NASA Second Life team that made this mixed-reality event happen– and to the paper writing team that pulled together a record of the event and lessons learned in very short order. See also my original post about the [...]
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Posted on February 13, 2008 by Andrew Hoppin
We had the “Next Generation Exploration Conference II” streaming into NASA CoLab in Second Life all day today, creating a mixed reality conference. Below, NASA Ames Center Director Pete Worden (above) and NASA Headquarters’ Ken Davidian (below) address NGEC up to 50 avatars on NASA CoLab island in Second Life as well as 100 young [...]
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Posted on February 12, 2008 by Andrew Hoppin
It takes an army of talented volunteers, and many hours, to get mixed-reality Second Life-Real-Life conferences set up in NASA conference facilities…
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Posted on June 8, 2007 by Andrew Hoppin
Scroll ahead to 11:00 minutes into the video to catch my 15 minute schpeel…
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Posted on April 4, 2007 by Andrew Hoppin
As promised, here are my slides from my recent panel at Politics Online entitled Are Online Games the New Town Hall? Avatar-Based Marketing and the Rise of the Gamer Class in Politics.
Download the presentation:
Second Life for Politics Presentation at Politics Online Conference
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