Put on your 3-D glasses The following appeared in HME News, the publication for the home medical industry, on July 26, 2011. This year and last, I asked the residents of Addison Court, the low-income apartment for disabled and elderly in State College where I live, to attend a demonstration at the Immersive Construction Lab, described […]
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The right avatar is a Pennsylvania avatar
This is not the right avatar. The name of this avatar is Speedy Przhevalsky. He was born in a laboratory in the Silicon Valley in a company called Second Life. Anyone writing about this technologies refers constantly to Wikipedia as in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life: “Second Life is an online virtual world developed by Linden Lab. It was launched on […]
Second Life: Virtual World Special
Editorial note: Of course what everyone wants to know these days is what effect will Zynga have on Second Life? (Readers are encouraged to provide answers.) What follows is a guest blog by John J. Meier, assistant librarian at Penn State‘s Physical and Mathematical Sciences Library providing background on Second Life. This originally appeared in Voices of Central Pennsylvania with the […]