March 2011 Blog Posts (26)

Club One Island is an interactive weight loss community in Second Life.

The sim design is totally awesome and is so very realistic to that which one may see in Real Life.

Services and features are abundant and are geared toward inspiring people to exercise in the Virtual World as well as in the Real world.

Just a few of the  many services that are offered at Club One Island include swimming; weight room; sauna; kids room;…

GLANCE International Agency (GIA) is proud to announce the release of it's twelfth issue, the March 2011 edition of GLANCE Magazine. Featured in this issue...

- Maddox DuPont, on the cover

- Veronica Krasner, Model of the month

- Haute Couture, Ancient Rome and Oh My Cold! fashion…

A Particle Generator was obtained from an alien ship and our Science department was assigned to examine this object thus determining its possible uses and capabilities.

Upon examining the particle generator I’ve found the following adjustments are available, which refine output particles:

There are  16  categories  of adjustments as well as Target and Texture feature…

We  had the honor of inteviewing Pooky Amsterdam AVW member.

See inteview on Page 22.

I am really excited to become a member. What a great network!

http://issuu.com/maniera/docs/maniera_march2011_v2/1

Shoot'em Ups



A Shoot'em Up game generally includes...



The main goal is for the character, machine, or object to make it through levels.

In most cases, the character is being attacked and gameplay hinges on a limiting foes.

Can rely on “twitch” behaviors; rapid eye movement and reflexes.

 

Strategy sometimes is less important.

Excellent reflex games.

URL:…

Action Games 2 ~~ Platform Games

The player moves through multiple levels, completing them, and gathering objects.

• Educational artifacts, tasks, and contexts can be added to enhance educational value.
• Often require joystick style controls.
• Still based on “twitch” or reflex skills
• Mostly found in arcade and console style games.

Excellent games for the young & old!

Every games requires slightly…

Action Games 6 ~~ Rhythm Games

Lots of fun here. These games are amazing easy to learn and inspire the participants. Seems some will hone that dexterity.

Try this one!

http://games.lycos.com/rhythm/music

My selection for this exploation journey was The United Federation of Starfleet Spacestation in-world Second Life.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Starfleet%20Sector002/3/245/24

The Starship is an awesome place to visit and anyone can join the group and sign up for e-newsletter events.

While exploring the musuem section I was able to make a few frieends who…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 22nd, 2011



– GIA & Rezzed TV announce GFA11 HD video release and official GFA website launch –

Visit http://www.fashionawards.glance-international.com/ today!



In the past weeks, GIA set up a full website covering…

"and it's
spring

when the world is puddle-wonderful"

—e. e. cummings

A special interview with 2 longterm residents of: OPENLIFE GRID:

SHAI KHALIFA & CHEOPS BOX

Discussing why people choose to live in certain virtual worlds, and what keeps them motivated there.

6:00PM SLT/PDT [LIVE/VOICE]

 …

The DogFather: Giving Us Paws for Thought 

By Traci Nubalo

One of the great joys of my years in Second Life has been the owning and training of my artificial intelligence dog, a gorgeous black lab named Bella. When we first got her I had no idea what an wonderful and fun…

Join the GLANCE International A-List group today!

In March 2011, it’s two skin gifts that are provided to GLANCE…

Follow the link and join Modavia Fashion Marketing group on Association Of Virtual Worlds - to be updated about our news, gifts and events :)

http://network.associationofvirtualworlds.com/group/modaviafashionmarketing

Join us for the Innovations in eLearning VII Conference at George Mason Univ June 7-8-9!

Workshops include Augmented Reality and Immersive Learning, Mobile Learning, App Development, Cloud Computing, Game development, the Online Rogue Professor, and a "GAMEJAM"

Keynotes: Dr Chris Dede (Harvard Fellow)

Nancy Knowlton (Smart Tech CEO)

Cedric Coco (SrVP, Lowes and 2009 CLO of the Year)

Tim Bajarin (Pres, Creative…

This is a call for abstract submissions for the 2011 Modeling and Simulation World Conference and Expo, to take place October 11-14 at the Virginia Beach Convention Center, Virginia Beach, Virginia.

MODSIM WORLD is a unique multi-disciplinary International Conference and Exposition for the exchange of modeling and simulation knowledge, research, and technology across industry, government, and academia. We accomplish this exchange primarily through the…

Hi foxes,

I am conducting a research into virtual worlds for my dissertation project,The first survey is about Second Life and the social, cultural and technical aspects of it and the second one about Second Life ,Facebook and twitter. I would appreciate you taking the time to complete these questionnaires(or on of them-up to you). Filling in each form should require about 5 minutes(the second one maybe less).

The responses you give in this questionnaire will remain…