Seems that I’m not the only one tracking game development platforms. Although my chart is still a work in progress the folks who produce the Virtual Worlds Conference have begun hosting a Virtual World Platform Matrix on their site. Though you could argue how some of the products are categorized and tick off a handful […]
Archive for June, 2007
Virtual World Platforms
Published June 26th, 2007 in Emerging Technologies, Serious Games and Uncategorized. 0 CommentsHow Did We Get Here?
Published June 25th, 2007 in Educational Technologies, Emerging Technologies, Serious Games and User Experience. 0 CommentsThe home page of the Metaverse Roadmap, an initiative to chart a path forward from the 2D web to the 3D web, provides a few clues:
“What happens when video games meet Web 2.0? When virtual worlds meet geospatial maps of the planet? When simulations get real and life and business go virtual? When you use […]
Virtual Reality, Liquid Identity
Published June 25th, 2007 in Serious Games and User Experience. 0 CommentsThe New York Times has run several articles on games in the last week. My favorite is a gallery of game players and their avatars from the Sunday Magazine section that manages to be both delightful and poignant when you see how people “reinvent” themselves for virtual worlds. Go here to view the slide show […]
The Wii Factor
Published June 13th, 2007 in Educational Technologies, Serious Games and Uncategorized. 0 CommentsLee Wilson makes a strong case for innovation in his Headway Strategies blog post Where is the Wii for Education? He writes, “Where are breakthrough products like the Wii in education? Textbooks and education technology are stuck in a rut. Just like Sony and Microsoft got locked in a war over processor speeds and cutting […]
Virtual Branding: From Pages to Places
Published June 8th, 2007 in Culture and Marketing. 0 CommentsBritish metaverse consultancy and marketing agency K Zero reports this week that 85 international brands had established a presence in Second Life by the end of May 2007. In 2006 these corporate immigrants were “almost exclusively from the US. However, Western Europe stepped forward strongly from Jan 2007 and with this came the uplift in […]
What’s the Point?
Published June 2nd, 2007 in Educational Technologies and Serious Games. 0 CommentsWhat is the purpose of K-12 education these days, anyway? Social Studies teacher Dave McDivitt cuts right to the chase in a cogent post on his blog this week. He writes:
1. Education needs to leave the “factory†model behind. The system was set up and work well for our country 65 years ago […]
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