fun in the sandbox

I love working in Second Life sandboxen. Anything can happen; last week I was coding for eight hours straight and someone came in and shot me with some kind of weapon, probably just testing it... my avatar was propelled up in the air with all kinds of colored balls flying around me. When I landed my pulse was going crazy and I rezzed out one of my blue spheres to harass the person. Here's a quick excerpt from a chat I had just today, about another incident:

hotshotscott7: back
me: you missed some fun
Ed and I were in world and some dude came over spewing out black swastikas
hotshotscott7: lol wtf
me: so I rezzed out a blue ball that stuck to his crotch
then he got some chick to teleport in who was fiddling around with some kind of weapon but she never got it to work right

This is the real and surreal life in the metaverse. Love it I have to say.

Arkowitz

science

Dr. David Resuehr has joined Green Phosphor as our Chief Scientist. We've also reworked our website to properly reflect our emphasis on biotech.

Cybertechnews has another article by yours truly - with a very interesting quote from Dr. David as well.

f(space,energy)=matter

Think INSIDE the Box and Out of the Screen

I was sitting in my office just now chatting with a dev who used to work for me at Right Media and who now is helping with the implementation of CICP in OpenSim. He was asking why there aren't a slew of data visualization apps in virtual worlds; the idea seems so obvious.

I venture that rather than a case of people needing to think "outside the box" it's a case of people needing to get out of the plane and into the box.

Ben

CICP is Public Domain

I've published the CICP provisional patent app on cybertechnews.

I also have someone working on implementing CICP in OpenSim. Not only will this allow OpenSim developers to experiment with CICP, it will give Green Phosphor's data visualization product, Glasshouse, another virtual world platform to deploy with!

Glasshouse now turns Excel files into graphs

It's now really easy to make a 3d graph within a virtual world. Just put the data you want graphed into an excel worksheet (the old .xls format), load up Glasshouse, pull in the worksheet, and off you go.

Try it out here: http://greenphosphor.com/?location=Beta

MXP Article

I've got an MXP article on cybertechnews.com.

Back to that chess match Beth Coleman brought up:

Suppose that Yuri and 3Jane are sitting in a drawing room playing at chess. Between them is a checkered board with pieces on it; the black pieces belong to Yuri, suppose, and the white to 3Jane.

There are some great parallels with a virtual world here:

1) the chess board, like the virtual world, is not a continuum; it is broken up into a discrete coordinate system

2) Yuri and 3Jane are participants in a consensual experience.

3) the chess pieces are objects, and each is owned by a particular participant

4) the rules of chess, the strategies, etc. are IN THE MINDS of the participants; not in the chess board itself

Arkowitz