A very down to earth and open-minded Linden Lab CEO Rod Humble (Rodvik Linden) spoke August 13 at the Second Life Community Convention (SLCC) in Oakland, Calif., and his message centered around focusing on making the user experience better and easier. Translation: bug fixes, not bright shiny new features. However,…
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Doctoral student of psychology running body image study in virtual worlds
A Ph.D. candidate in Melbourne, Australia, is looking for a few good men. Jon-Paul Cacioli, a clinical psychology student at Deakin University, is conducting a study on body image in the virtual would to see if the avatar can give us any insight into possible real-life psychological properties, he said…
Metanomics: Learn how your avatar participates in a virtual world culture
The Metanomics group on March 2 discussed virtual world culture and how having an avatar can impact social interactions in places like Second Life. How seriously should we take it?