Automatically sending e-mails from Second Life (Win & Linux)

For one project I needed a script that sends a screenshot e-mail from Second Life in regular intervals. As I am not really good at coding C++ I decided to solve it using a command called SendKeys. From there on the rest was more or less easy to do. Well at least on Windows as I knew SendKeys from...

New Partnership

After quite some time, I am reporting back to this blog. This time not with news from Second Life or any other virtual world, but with news from the real world! Today Im very proud to announce, that vQuantor will join a partnership with Primforge and the ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medien in...

80% of Internet users to have a second life by 2011

According to Gartner 80% of the Internet users and Fortune 500 enterprises will have some kind of "second life", which means they will make use of some kind of 3D internet!

New Design

Today we launched the new design of our webpage, which is much brighter and nicer than the old one!

Thanks to Niko of SprengArbeiten who really did great work!

There will be some minor tweaks in the next few days, so stay tuned and visit the page with a "real" browser and not only your...

Real Politics moving in...

Second Life is becoming more and more populated by real politics...

After the US Congress [vQuantor reported] now another international institution moved into Second Life. As heise reports [de] the Swedish Institute will open the first offical embassy in SL. Although they will not be able to give...

Behind the scenes...

Attention: This post may inherit irony!

When thinking about virtual worlds most of us normally think about 3D, nice looking worlds with some intuitive navigation features - to be short - something not too geeky. Well, and some of us go a little further and think about developing stuff in virtual...

Facial Expression Capturing

Somebody on the Second Life Educators Mailing List sent around some links which show new animation techniques for facial animation. When watching those videos one automatically starts to think about how the future of virtual worlds might look like, if this was built into them. Just imagin setting a...

Overview Article

This is just a short link to a quite nice "What are virtual worlds" article on squidoo.com. Especially interesting is the list of virtual worlds that exist in the internet and the nice list of books about virtual worlds!

New TV-Show inside of Second Life!

As we all know, BigBrother was one of the first, big TV-shows that moved into Second Life (find more on their homepage).

Now "The L Word" opened a Sim in Second Life. I myself have not been there up to now. But 3pointD has a greate article about that sim! What really stikes me nicely is the fact...

Another virtual world: Entropia Universe

Brwosing the news for virtual worlds I found an article on heise [de] about a new real millionaire in a virtual world. The interesting thing about Neverdie - as he is called - is, that he's not "yet another" Second Life millionaire, but one in another virtual world calle "Entropia Universe"...

Virtual worlds becoming more real - once again!

After Anshe Chung was victim of a griefing attack during an interview some time ago, somebody published a video of that attack on YouTube (which could be found here). This video was point of quite some discussion, esp. as Anshe Chung and her husband tried to get rid of that video on the base of the...

[UPDATE] Avatars agains Extreme right

As Spiegel online [de] reports today, Avatars in Second Life stood up to demonstrate against the french Extreme Right Political Party "National Front", which moved into Second Life somewhen in December 2006 (Second Life Herald reports).

This is one more hint that shows that Second Life - and...

Crazy Avatar

Crazy Av Originally uploaded by joannamkay.

Well, while thinking about how a company should represent their eompoyees in virtual worlds, I started to look for more uncommon avatars. And I must say, I like this idea. Unfortunately I could not find out how this is done! But I'll keep you up...

Korean Online-Community!

According to a tv-documentary by NZZ that was aired today on the German TV station VOX the korean online community CYWORLD hosts webpages for over 90% of all young Koreans! This is QUITE a bunch I think!

Some time ago Cyworld started a US Version of it's page which can be found here. I will dig...

[UPDATE] Second Life Client now opensource

Linden Labs, the maker and developer of Second Life, just released the Second Life client as an opensource application! The sourcecode is available under "The GNU General Public License, version 2.0, with a FLOSS exception" as Linden Labs states on the new developers page!

This is one big step...

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Virtual Online Showroom

As Reuters reports today [link] Atlanta [US] based retailer Sears is planning to open a virtual showroom in Second Life.

As far as I could get it from the article, they plan to use the SL-version of their showroom as an addition to their normal shops. This should enable their customers to test,...

US Congress in Second Life

The US Congress has moved into Second Life. This article will give you some links with further information:

[de] Spiegel online[en] Reuters.Secondlife

Let's wait and see, what they really will do in Second Life, or if this is yet another inactive, just for the press, presence.

Ein kleiner Link im alten Jahr

 Einfach um dieses Jahr noch einen Post zu machen (und um langsam wieder aus der Weihnachtsträgheit zu erwachen) hier noch ein evtl. recht interessanter Link zu einem Teil meiner del.icio.us Page.Hier findet Ihr alle Links, die ich mit "Second Life" tagge...

Jo, dann noch ein schönes...

Intereting Second Life Tech Company to watch

So, das is jetzt mal eher eine kleiner "Investment Tipp", über eine SL Firma, die man im Auge behalten sollte (zumindest die Lösung): APEZ.Letztendlich bieten die ein System an, dass einem ein Netzwerk von Verkaufsmaschinen (Vendors) ermöglicht. Und das besonders interessante daran ist, dass diese...