this VM has a TAN LINE!

User Web site:

"I just found the model through HSN I think it looks more like me... this VM has a TAN LINE! I am so using HSN's virtual model from now on!"  http://dolphindreamdesigns.com/vmpage.htm

 

 

Virtuality Conference & Miss Digital World

VIRTUALITY 2005 Virtual Everywhere!
     6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
     ON DIGITAL CINEMA, VIRTUAL REALITY,
     COMPUTER GRAPHICS, (3D) ANIMATION & VISUAL EFFECTS

http://www.virtualityconference.it/

 

Miss Digital World

http://www.missdigitalworld.com/MDWContest/showpage/16

 

Mueller Kneer Associates

An interesting London based design group. They designed a cool night club
in London called the Cinnamon Club. http://www.muellerkneer.com/

Holosonic Research Labs

The Audio Spotlight is a revolutionary new audio technology that creates
sound in a narrow beam, just like light. Aim the flat, thin speaker disc to
your desired listening area, and provide all of the sound with none of the
noise.

This could be great for multimedia installations in public places.http://www.holosonics.com/

Photographic VR Solutions

QTVR Products
QTVR Rooms

 

Keith Alexander's blog

Interesting blog. Technologist & Digital Project Manager
keith@keithalexander.com

"I fully utilize all mediums to interact with a client's target to deliver a richer, relevant and more compelling user experience. Leveraging a web presence to collect opt-in data and tell a story, sms/mms for location-sensitive promotion delivery, rss for content updates, outdoor for buzz, kiosks to lower human resource costs, broadcast for reach, extranets to shorten approval times, intranets to maximize knowledge sharing… I think and act in a strategic, multi-platform, cross-media, user-centric manner."

Mobile Presence: A Communications Tidal Wave Heading Your Way!

 

Comverse, a unit of Comverse Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: CMVT), is the world's leading provider of software and systems enabling network-based multimedia enhanced communication services. These value-added enhanced services solutions, along with the company's real-time billing solutions, comprise the company's Total Communication portfolio.

 

Link to artice:

 

http://www.tmcnet.com/it/0604/FCommverse.htm

Avatars May Be the Next Big Online Thing!

$200 million market and growing...

Link to News article sent by Fadi Bachaalani - original architect of the first generation of MVM products.

MIT Media Lab - Responsive Environments Group

Link a fascinating group at MIT working on

http://www.media.mit.edu/resenv/motto.html

 

The Responsive Environments Group designs new sensing modalities and enabling technologies for responsive spaces that inspire new forms of interactive experience and expression. Our work is highlighted in diverse application areas, which range from interactive music systems and wearable computers to smart highways and medical instrumentation.

Sensor Web

The Sensor Web is a new class of geographic information system (GIS) developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory consisting of a sensor network for environmental monitoring and control.

 

Reference:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensor_Web

Augmented Reality

opposite of virtual reality

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality

Here is the video of the digital_desk.mpeg project by Pierre Wellner in 1991 which can be considered as AR's seminal research work.

There.com virtual community

http://www.there.com/index.html

OMG Clothing is user designed!

http://www.omgclothing.com/

User page with instructions on how to use VDR

Example of how end users take ownership and spread the community: 

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art34871.asp

 

Start of Virtual Show Room Project Blog

Start of my personal blog with short entries and links to people, projects, and technologies that are related, in a very broad sense, to Virtual Identity and Virtual Models.