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Making things in the Virtual World: Second Life Primer

Making things in the Virtual World: Second Life Primer

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Do you have the desire to buy a parcel of land, landscape it to your taste, and then build your dream home in just a few days? One resident of Linden Labs’ Second Life shares her experience in home owernship and building in this short video, “Bridge Making”. This is by no means an example of all the features and flexibility of the Second Life crafting system which includes the ability to write your own code and scripts, but it is a good example of what even a new resident can do during their first week. Continue on for images and video!…

HOW TO – Crafting in virtual worlds…

HOW TO – Crafting in virtual worlds…

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The art of crafting in many MMOs (Massive Multiplayer Online Game) can be just as sophisticated and as satisfying as being an artisan in the real world. Depending on the complexity invovled it can take a great deal of time to learn all the ins and out of an ingame crafting system. This video How-To is a beginner guide to one element of crafting in the Star Wars Galaxies universe: surveying for materials. Click here to view video (WindowsMedia)…

Animal superpowers

Animal superpowers

Regine @ we make money not art on Design Interactions Chris Woebken and Kenichi Okada’s “Animal superpowers” – Animals have senses beyond human experience, they instinctively feel approaching tsunamis through low frequencies, communicate through pheromones or can navigate through magnetic fields. Students of Design Interactions Chris Woebken and Kenichi Okada, in collaboration with MBA students […]

LEGO NXT Gramophone

The video starts out a little slow , but the end result using the coffee cup works well. I can’t suggest using your prized vinyl records for this experiment, but I am sure you have a few you wouldn’t mind trashing. – Link Related: Homemade way of cutting / recording records using a turntable and […]