Migration to Virtual Worlds has begun, Don't be left behind
Virtual Worlds for Global Foresight & Futures Methods

Meeting room in the newly opened Millennium Project's Campus in Second Life

Posted Sun, 07/05/2009 - 13:48 by frank

Welcome to the Millennium Project's venue for mixed reality meetings and events. Meet in real life and in Second Life at the same time. Live streaming video of your real life event allows those in Second Life to attend as well. In fact after the meeting the entire campus and offices are open for your use for meetings, events and anything else you wish.

Download your second Life Browsers NOW and register to get your avatar, both free. Doing this now, even if you will be attending the PC Meeting in person will put you a step ahead as more meetings and events begin to be held in Second Life.

Then follow the instructions in the block on the left to visit the MP Second Life Campus.

This is not a one time service for the planning committee meeting it is a 24/7 resource for all MP nodes partners, and sponsors to use at any time for meetings, or casual converation.

Virtual Worlds Offer New Horizons For Futures Research & Collaboration

Posted Sun, 06/21/2009 - 17:15 by frank
The Auroran Project

Image by Liqueur Felix via Flickr

There is a mass migration taking place now that is invisible to all but those involved. The marketing research firm Gartner predicts that 80% of active web users will have migrated to virtual worlds by 2011. ComputerWeekly.com reports that Second Life will emerge as a leading collaboration platform. Two years ago the Federal Consortium of Virtual Worlds was formed, composed of representatives of major US Government agencies (federal, state and local) academia, and corporate sectors, their goal, to share best practices in collaborative use of virtual worlds.

Jerry Glenn to address the 2010 State of the Arts Symposium in LA

Posted Sun, 11/08/2009 - 17:02 by frank


To be simulcast on the MP Campus in Second Life

directions for attending in Second Life in the block to the left

Three-dimensional internet wave of the future

Posted Tue, 06/23/2009 - 13:49 by frank
Reflejos de gigantes

Image by PONCE 2007 via Flickr

By Bob Weinstein
Writer
Troy Media Corporation

NEW YORK, June 22, 2009/ Troy Media/ -- Academics and corporate pundits universally agree that San Francisco-based Linden Lab’s Second Life (SL) has become a technological and entrepreneurial phenomenon that’s in its early growth phase.

Created by visionary Philip Rosedale, SL has been described as a hypnotic, powerful and immersive online virtual world, populated by thousands of people around the world in real time.

It’s also become a cost-efficient tool, used by colleges, universities and global corporations. Architects, engineers, construction project managers and engineering students have executed some stunning VR re-creations using the Second Life platform.

The State of the Future 2009 annual Millennium Publication

Posted Sun, 06/21/2009 - 12:38 by frank

This “report card on the future” distills the collective intelligence of over 2,700 leading scientists, futurists, scholars, and policy advisors who work for governments, corporations, non-governmental organizations, universities, and international organizations. The 2009 State of the Future comes in two parts: a 100-page print executive summary and an attached CD containing about 6,700 pages of research behind the print edition and the Millennium Project's 13 years of cumulative research and methods.