Games and MUVES– VLENZ Update, No 182, April 22, 2011

Future Forecasts for Games and Virtual Worlds Is Rod Humble going to take  SL back to the desert?  Seriath sees days of Bohemians and pirates reborn…  The new CEO of Linden Labs CEO Rod Humble just might have something in common with OpenSim blogger and builder, free content distributor and Hypergrid explorer, Vanish Seriath. Humble, [...]

OpenSim Grids Growing apace – VLENZ Update, No 180, January 24, 2011

Is SL fading? The ‘Top 40′ OpenSim grids gain 529 regions in month Latest figures from Hypergrid Business The top 40 OpenSim grids gained 529 regions since mid-December, to reach a new high of 15,623 regions on January 15 of this month, according to  Maria Korolov  in her latest article in  Hypergrid Business. The full [...]

NZVWGrid Upgrade – VLENZ Update, No 179, January 24, 2011

NZVWGrid  news Auckland  U Portal ‘upgrades’ OpenSim  hardware Will host 30-50 sims The  “virtual world team” at the University of Auckland will be “productionising” its  Opensim installation – Hypergrid address: akl.nzvwg.org.8002.aotearoa – over the  the next couple of weeks which should see the university’s portal on the New Zealand Virtual World Grid ready to accept [...]

‘Full Perms?’ – VLENZ Update, No 178, January 18, 2011

Virtual World Commerce and transport Second Life: where you can pay through the nose  but never ‘own’ your skin … I have never had a real problem with individual creatives who protect the intellectual property in their product: Just with  those who want to regionalise the real world and the virtual worlds so  they can [...]

OpenSim Worlds– VLENZ Update, No 177, January 09, 2011

OpenSim Grid worlds are spreading But do you want to pay ‘twice’ for your skin? … and  everything else just because you want to ‘travel’ the worlds The Lindens have rightly been concerned about guaranteeing intellectual property creator rights and Second Life’s place in the sun (Let’s lock in the users to a closed world by [...]

MUVE education at NMIT– VLENZ Update, No 176, August 11, 2010

New Zealand  MUVE activity NMIT launches  course covering 3d immersive environments The Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology  has successfully launched and is into the fourth week of an online course on multi-user three dimensional virtual environments (MUVEs) and their relationships to other multi-user technologies. The 16 students, enrolled in the course (A&M624, Immersive 3D Environments), [...]

SLENZ Project, VLENZ Update No 168, March 26, 2010

SLENZ  PROJECT DOES IT AGAIN Midwifery Studies Build 1.0 available free to public Much of the SLENZ birth unit featured in this PookyMedia machinima has been made available free of charge. The SLENZ Project  announced today that its Midwifery Studies Build Version 1.0, is now available for free pickup from the  Nelson Marlborough Institute of [...]

NZVWG Update, VLENZ No 166, March 14, 2010

NZ Virtual World Grid hosts international  guests NZVWG Auckland portal now accepting ‘resident’ avatar applications … The  University of Auckland portal of the New Zealand Virtual World Grid (NZVWG)  has successfully hosted its  first international seminar, attracting  a number of leading MUVE educators and researchers from  around the world. The meeting coincided with the announcement [...]

Second Life Financials/Future, VLENZ No 164, March 08, 2010

SECOND LIFE Financials/future Second Life still going from strength to strength … and Philip Rosedale on the future For the doomsayers who keep denigrating Second Life, the latest figures from that world – now  a few weeks old – demonstrate just how  successful  the Lindens  are with their  world created  by their residents. Of course,  [...]

VLENZ Update, No 160, January 20, 2010

A NEW START FOR 2010 NZ virtual world group off the ground and running … At the  NZVWG inaugural meeting: Arwenna Stardust, Rollo Kohimi and Briarmelle Quintessa. Fourteen  leaders in virtual world education in New Zealand attended the inaugural meeting earlier this week of  the New Zealand Virtual World Group (working name) on the NMIT [...]