This is the earliest video that I saw showing the new world called HiPiHi, now in beta. This video is in Chinese. There is an English language version of the browser that is apparently available. Second Life’s Suzanne Baskerville is blogging about her beta tests at: http://suezannecbaskerville.wordpress.com/

3D and 2D social networking, at the same time. Here’s a look at how Kaneva is setting up their new world.

YouTube has several demo reels of projects going on inside the Multiverse platform. This one is from http://www.marsauthority.com/
in which the game will be to develop a colony on Mars. It sounds like a great premise for a virtual world simulation. The video is shot entirely within the platform.

Not a SIG meeting but Bay Area folks may be able to check it out.

Previous SIG presenter Bruce Damer will be lecturing on July 30, 2007 with the topic:

“Avatar Space to Outer Space”
in San Francisco.

Details here:

http://colab.arc.nasa.gov/node/62

Bruce Damer will take us on a sweeping visual journey through the
origins and evolution of multi-player gaming, avatars and social
virtual worlds up to the present “main-streaming of the metaverse” in
platforms such as Second Life. From there we will boldly go where no
virtual world has gone before… into the real-time 3D design
engineering of NASA’s architectures for robotic and human exploration
of the solar system in the first quarter of this century. Some
never-before-seen mission scenarios, developed by Bruce’s company
DigitalSpace working with NASA, will be presented during this
session. Bruce will also dip into Project Biota, a ten-year
initiative in artificial life and hyper-evolution. Bruce will
conclude by suggesting pathways to combine the power of avatar
cyberspace and serious engineering environments for the public
understanding and support of space.

WHEN: Monday, July 30, 2007 (Full Moon) at 6:30 PM;
6:30-7PM Socializing;
7-7:30PM “From Avatar Space to Outer Space” Presentation by Bruce Damer;
7:30-8:30PM Visual Worlds Discussion
8:30-9PM Socializing

WHERE: Citizenspace, 425 Second Street, 3rd Floor, in San Francisco
94107 (http://citizenspace.us/). Google map

WHO: All are welcome, from space professionals to those who are
unsure what N-A-S-A stands for!

MISC: Please bring food and drink to share.