CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
May 12, 2008 03:44pm
One of the more surreal aspects of Second Life is having a vivid voice chat conversation with a character where their mouth never moves. For years, avatars at There.com have had lip sync or at least, mouth movement, to audio.
Well, my Second Life talking friends, you can have that too with the Second Life Lipsync Viewer. This is a set of files you download and replace in your original Second Life application (see the bottom of the docs page and ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jan 15, 2008 10:41pm
Today witnessed an amazing turnout for Stephane Zugzwang's demo and release of the Virtual Reality Room tool for educators, hosted today at Learning on NMC Campus.
We had a capacity crowd of 73 for the 10:00 AM demo, and we got so many messages and IMs from people knocked out to the next sim, that Stephane agreed to provide another demo at 12:00pm where we saw an additional 41 eager avatars show up.
As a recap, we have some audio recorded ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Dec 21, 2007 01:36pm
If you were an educator, wouldn’t you dream of taking your students on exciting field trips but the location is across the country, or even across the ocean? How about a holodeck in a virtual world where, with the click of a mouse, you can be in New York, Chicago, or visiting Chateau Villandry on the Loire river?
Second Life Virtual Reality Room- exploring the forest
Thanks to the partnership between the New Media Consortium, the Info Island Archipelago, the Commonwealth Islands ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Oct 20, 2006 06:25pm
The second part of SLATENIGHT sessions was a brief "fashion" show with commentary by Danielle Damone and Anya Ixchel. The individuals who volunteered to go up on stage answered questions about their choice of representation and interactions in Second Life.
Among the furry avs paraded was this reporter as well as the very very hairy, Seb Basiat:
Danielle Damone asks Seb Basiat a few questions about his fur.
Asked about his avatar, Seb wrote:
I had been looking at furry avvie because I was ... more » »
As Heidi TeeCee (aka Heidi Trotta) I prepare for Seton Hall’s educational gaming day, appropriately titled “Enhancing Learning and Collaboration Through Playâ€, we thought we would share with you a few resources that we found to make our guests feel special. Our virtual field trip is part of a series of faculty development day-long workshops that Seton Hall's Teaching Learning and Technology Center hosts throughout the summer. The resources that we will share with you could also be used for ... more » »
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