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1. Car manufacturer Ford has started using a virtual human to improve the ergonomics of its manufacturing plants.
2. In a month’s time, Second Life’s 7th Birthday celebrations kick off.
3. I hadn’t stumbled across the world of Tinier Me until received a press release from their PR company announcing the debut of “popular Japanese anime character, Gloomy Bear”. Now you know.
4. Crisp Thinking, the company behind the NetModerator platform for MMOs / virtual worlds, has announced multi-language support with the addition of French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and Russian. Chinese (Cantonese), Chinese (Mandarin) and Korean are on the way as well.
5. Prolific machinima creator Draxtor Despres has created a nice overview of an upcoming iteration of the Amputee Virtual Support System on the SL Enterprise platform:
The prolific machinima man, Draxtor Depres, has produced a concise but effective piece on education in Second Life.
Educators familiar with virtual environments will perhaps find this a useful advocacy tool when trying to get a point across in a short timeframe. Those totally new to the area may find it straightforward enough to be interested in finding out more.
It’s also timely given the 3rd Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education is running over the weekend.
There’s never any shortage of new and innovative work going on in regards to education, but the challenge remains in (dare I use a non-word) ‘mainstreaming’ these activities, and machinima is certainly one of the weapons in that arsenal.
Anyway, here it is:
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