Posted on April 30, 2009 by johnwaugh
How to demo SL to non-users …
IN UNDER FIVE MINUTES
Although it’s been up on YouTube for some eight months still one of the best introductions to Second Life, particularly for those in the health and medical fields, is the University of Michigan’s Health Sciences Libraries’ machinima highlighting Second Life and Public Health.
The [...]
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Posted on March 3, 2009 by johnwaugh
As real as it gets -
architecturally speaking
Almost since the inception of MUVEs such as Second Life, architects have seen the potential of being able to create exact, real life, fullscale, 3D, building models within virtual reality for such things as architect/designer/client walk throughs, design visualisation and tweaking. No one has been [...]
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Posted on October 16, 2008 by johnwaugh
CPAs get SL picture
One never thinks of accountants as being enthusiastic about innovation – it can put red on the bottomline – but Australia’s accountants have greeted the concept of Second Life with gusto.
Their enthusiasm came after Australian Second Life residents Lee Hopkins (Lee Laperriere), an online communications strategist and Lindy McKeown ( Decka Mah), [...]
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