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| Virtual Reality Applications Can Improve Your Social Skills |  | Although online applications that imply some virtual reality features are often criticized by those who consider them barriers to real life interaction, studies prove there really is no need to worry. Eryn Grant, a PhD student at the School of Humanities, Queensland University of Technology, conducted a study that should put all skeptic minds at ease. The researcher created an account on Second Life and, by analyzing other people's co ... [read more >>] | | 21 July 2008, 08:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Home Is Where Your PlayStation Is |  | When someone thinks of a "virtual world," Second Life immediately springs to mind. It is widely popular and talked about in many traditional media outlets. It also sparked debate on a number of issues, from virtual rights of ownership to virtua ... [read more >>] | | 25 February 2008, 03:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Second Life, the Famous Virtual World, Available on Mobile Phones |  | Vollee, the US-based mobile entertainment company, announced it would bring the Second Life experience to 3G mobile phones. Beta trials of Second Life for mobiles will be open to users starting May 2008 and will be free of charge.
If you don't know what Second Life is, we'll tell you. It's a sort of a game / 3D ... [read more >>] | | 23 February 2008, 04:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| World of Warcraft, Reason for Divorce |  | World of Warcraft is one of the most successful MMORPGs, if not THE Game. It boasts over 10 million users worldwide and it is, for many people, their second life. Unfortunately, it also is a second life that interferes with the real one and it has some p ... [read more >>] | | 18 February 2008, 03:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| NASA to Create a MMO Game? |  | It's no secret that the virtual world is slowly taking over the real life (I should say "unfortunately" here, right?). And since the folks from NASA probably know that way better than everybody else, they are considering now to create a ... [read more >>] | | 21 January 2008, 03:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Virtual Banking Banned as of January 22nd |  | The extent to which Second Life has reached the online community looks troubling to me, and if I were to be in charge of anything at all related to it, I would most likely shut the whole project down. You know, the usual "why go to work with your avatar and do what you do in the real life anyway" kind of issue that you might have heard others have.
Trust is a valuable good in real life and, because of that, the surge of emotio ... [read more >>] | | 09 January 2008, 05:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Second Life on Mobile Phones in Japan |  | Second Life's popularity has hit Japan as well and they are now working on ways to develop the technology needed for bringing it on their mobile phones as well. It's all pretty close to becoming true as the service will be released before the holidays.
The service is targeted at DoCoMo handsets from the 3G FOMA 700 and 900 series. If it proves successful, an adaptation for other phone models might see a close release ... [read more >>] | | 02 November 2007, 05:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Vodafone Brings Its Services in Second Life |  | Vodafone has just launched a beta version of a mobile operation in the online game Second Life that is supposed to allow people to call other Second Life avatars and connect the call to mobile phones in the physical world.
The Second Life phenomenon proved to be an impressive one right from the beginning, when its proportions were overwhelming. A huge amount of people spent their time building themselves another life in an alt ... [read more >>] | | 05 October 2007, 09:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Samsung Armani Phone, the Hottest Thing in Second Life |  | Second Life gets the best out of real life. The famous fashion designer Giorgio Armani just introduced the phone that he designed together with Samsung in the offer of his new fashion store that he opened in this virtual world.
Second Life is one of the most po ... [read more >>] | | 28 September 2007, 04:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Use Internet Explorer to Lose Your Dough |  | If there is money somewhere on the web, then there’s bound to be some hacker interested in that place. But I guess you’ve already noticed this. In any case, Second Life makes a lot of transactions happen. In case you’ve never heard of it, it’s an online game, with close to 10 million people involved and some call it mind blowing. Just like you might have imagined by reading its name, this game offers the player a possibility to h ... [read more >>] | | 19 September 2007, 04:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Virtual Sex Beds Get People to Court |  | Although it was known that the famous Second Life has a big impact in the real life for numerous registered members, it seems like the things are going to take a crazy direction. A Second Life member, Kevin Alderman, is suing another user of the famous platform, Volkov Catteneo, for copyright infringement. Let me explain it to you: Kevin Alderman is the creator of the adult-content company Eros LLC that provides virtual sex beds ... [read more >>] | | 04 July 2007, 05:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Samsung Mobile Phones in Second Life |  | With the new innovative online marketing strategies that suffocate the world wide web, companies are continually rethinking new ways of attracting buyers.
After thinking about female interest in mobile communication that resulted in shiny and thin devices, Samsung is prepa ... [read more >>] | | 13 April 2007, 05:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Luring Women into Adult Games |  | Designers of adult-oriented video games are trying to figure out how to attract women. Nice, I'd like to know how to do the same thing myself, but their efforts are for catching “bigger fish”. So, what they're doing is attracting women in creating the ultimate lure f ... [read more >>] | | 08 March 2007, 09:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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