You can be more observant about types of language, body language, and environment when you're seeing and hearing something (as opposed to just reading). If everyone has a camera or a webcam on their computer, then everyone involved in the chat will...
The irony in all of this is in how important the iOS environment is to Google. Other iOS6 highlights include the Passbook app for virtual loyalty card organization, Siri enhancements, shared photo libraries and iCloud tabs for shared Safari browser...
How can brands more effectively tap into the data, conversations, and experiences in today’s changing retail environment? With consumers expecting to be able to get feedback, deals, and reviews while standing in a retail environment, brands must be...
The current implementation does nothing to actually aid roleplayers, unless they roleplay in only one environment exclusively. This makes sense given the resistance virtual world users have toward combining their online life with that in their...
The second new feature allows landowners greater control over the social environment on their land by allowing to mute gesture sounds at the land level, on a parcel basis. The ability to turn off gesture sounds (which can be both very sudden and...
With this push toward opening the virtual environment up to these larger arenas, come the problems of privacy that they tackle and share (and very often completely screw up). Spies, Lies & Cold Hard Cash: Second Life Erupts In a War Over Privacy
I have long said that there is no magic bullet solution for viewers in a virtual environment as vast as Second Life. Stuff! Things! to report. Hang on to your hats guys, because the ride down at SL is about to get a little bumpy.
As much as this bill was designed with things like drunken photos taken on vacation and videos of the dog chasing its own tail in mind, when you try to port the concept into the environment of a virtual world, it becomes more complicated.
If your goal is a combination of traffic and money (and in an online environment that's usually what it comes down to), what Mickey suggested really isn't a bad way to go about it. I can't recall whose commercial it is (it's either EHarmony or...
However when things are hard wired into a system, such as the case with a virtual environment like Second Life, you start to have problems and need creative solutions to solve them. But in Second Life where all content is user created, advancing...
As I mentioned last week, the ability to link microgames within the Second Life environment to a larger audience via Facebook was hampered by Facebook's Terms of Service, which specifically disallows people from creating an account based on an alias.
Things like Ozimals, Bloodlines, and Hunger share an interesting characteristic -- they are games easily ported out to an application environment such as you'd find in Facebook or a mobile app. They're a virtual animal breeding system.
The limits of text based chat (conveying tone) and web video chat (direct 1 to 1 communication), has the potential to be transformed in a virtual environment. Perhaps more successfully than Second Life, Nurien Software have been able to create and...
It scans the environment, compares, positions, and then renders (at 30+ times per second). JC Penny are using a virtual dressing room which allows shoppers to try on clothes in the convenience of their own home by overlaying clothes over you to see...
When it comes to how we perceive the built environment, do things change when familiar spaces we experience in the real world are recreated in a virtual environment? Virtuatecture is the process of creating structures (whatever they may be) in a...
As Tom Gruber, CTO and co-founder of Siri, pointed out, smart computers understand you in your language, make sense of your environment, help you solve everyday problems, and can be at your service everywhere.
What's their impact on the surrounding environment? pm Potential business models - virtual demos, augmented retail, enhanced events, location layers, experiential education.pm Imagine if the Museum of Natural History had an application that made...
Allowing media companies to create and share visual projects in a controlled environment, and build compelling campaigns and programs with new media Now, Microsoft is integrating the product to its Virtual Earth.
Doing A Google Search Impacts The Environment! Social Media Predictions for 2009 BRAND EQUITY It's a new year, which means it's time to raise a virtual glass within your social network and toast your collective social graphs for a great 2009.
Reaching specific verticals in a social networking context can allow marketers to create a richer message that is better received than in the general MySpace environment. The key in beating the trends and planting a stake in the next hot social...
