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The Architects of the Open Source Metaverse at Virtual Worlds 2008

Screen shot from realXtend’s wickedly cool avatar tech demo (see video here). Some people may have walked away from Virtual Worlds 2008, NYC, thinking the vision of the metaverse has boiled down to two notions: 1) every toy should have its own own virtual world and 2) may a thousand walled gardens flourish. But, if […]

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RealXtend’s Vision for Open Virtual Worlds:
Interview With Juha Hulkko

Juha Hulkko’s Second Life avatar, Jussi Hudson relaxing in his “mirror house” in Second Life – photo by Noelani Lightfoot. The story of Juha Hulkko’s vision for realXtend, the future of virtual worlds and the next generation of the internet, is fascinating and several conversations are combined in the following interview. You can read more […]

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Avatar Rights:
Freedom & Openness in Immersive Software

The social consequences of the architectural decisions that will take us into a future of openness in immersive software are potentially vast. Open immersive software is poised to begin to play a disruptive role in the next generation of the internet, and decisions about its design may turn out to be very important ones for […]

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