Denizens of Activision Blizzard’s World of Warcraft (yes…it’s official!) know that the Dark Portal connects Azeroth to the Hellfire Peninsula. Is a new, far more powerful, portal about to open between Azeroth and Cupertino, CA, the heart of Apple headquarters? Unless you’re living in a furbolg cage, I doubt it’s news that the [...]
At what point do we know that technology has gone too far? Looking back at historical waypoints, the answer is easy…when it’s too late. The latest in the line of totally amazing and potentially scary products has emerged. Emotiv, a San Francisco-based (take that, Silicon Valley) tech company has created the new [...]
Posted in 3D Internet, Commentary, Contract Law, Copyright Law, Google, Lively, Providers, VB Features, Virtual Law, Virtual Worlds & Games on July 9th, 2008 8 Comments »
I downloaded and installed Lively yesterday (the “it’s in the browser” hype aside, Lively requires a download since it operates as a plugin). Somewhat oddly, there was no EULA or TOS document to agree to during the installation process. Indeed, there were no options or buttons to click on at all. Double-click “Install Lively” [...]
An eco-friendly international architecture design competition is being held within Second Life where the grand prize is the real-world construction of the winning green structure. In China. Cool.
The contest is sponsored by architecture website arcspace.com, eco-architecture firm Ecoland-Ecoscape and the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan. Architects, designers [...]
“Lively,” a virtual world from Google went online today, as predicted by me and 10,000 other bloggers. I’ll dig into the TOS and see how they’re approaching intellectual property and other legal issues. In the meantime… thoughts?
The SL Bar Association recently announced that it will be offering CLE (Continuing Legal Education) credit for legal seminars held in Second Life, starting with SLBA President ‘Solomon Cortes’ (David Naylor) presenting “Virtual World Legal Issues” July 15, 2008 at 12:00 Noon Pacific at the SLBA offices. This marks the first time that CLE [...]
There are two new developments in Hernandez v. IGE. First, IGE has filed a declaration from CEO Brock Pierce stating that IGE merely holds stock in Affinity Media Inc. and doesn’t itself do anything or employ anyone. Second, Hernandez has moved to compel production of documents and interrogatory responses.
For the full background of [...]
I periodically dig around a bit to see what’s new in the browser-based “3D internet” realm because I think that the evolution of the internet into a 3D space is the long-term reason it makes sense to be paying attention to virtual worlds now — and it is a reason that skeptical colleagues understand. [...]
