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Nov 26, 2007

Vodafone "InsideOut" connects phones to Second Life

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Via Textually.org             Vodafone offers a new service called "InsideOut" that allows interaction between characters in Second Life and real phones. "Both voice calls and text messages can be ferried in and out of the game, with SMSes running a cool L$300 (around $1) and voice calls running L$300 per minute. Calls and messages placed to Second Life, though, are billed at the same rate as they would be to a traditional German phone."

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Oct 21, 2007

AjaxLife

A new application called AjaxLife allows browser-based interaction with the online virtual world SecondLife . Using AjaxLife, users do not need a video card and a graphical client to connect to the SecondLife world. However, the AjaxLife client supports only limited functions, such as in-game chatting, teleporting to various locations and checking the status of the user's inventory,...

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Jun 24, 2007

Toward a Metaverse

Via Networked Performance In this interesting article recently published in Technology Review , Wade Roush predicts that the line between the real world and its virtual representations...

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Jan 25, 2007

Second Life gets virtual mobile operator

Jan 07, 2007

Imaging Place SL: The U.S./Mexico Border

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