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Articles and links for July 2, 2008

Here are 3 articles for today:
Gaia Online tees up its massively multiplayer online game
The missing ‘links’: Looking towards an augmented reality
Three steps to encourage corporate investment in virtual worlds

Russian artist “turns the reality around us into ASCII”

WIRED’s blog asks us to “forget Second Life” and turn the real world virtual. That’s just the idea!
They post this interesting goggle-based augmented reality device with 6 modes of psychedellic visual effects (made even more so by the sound effects in this video).
The artists are named as Alexei Shulgin and Arstarkh Chernyshev [...]

“Sentient” virtual worlds with virtual you being created by DOD

The Deptartment of Defense is apparently creating a virtual world that will have you as a resident.  The Synthetic World Simulation will be an even more refined version of Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulations (SEAS)
Links: http://www.theregister.com/2007/06/23/sentient_worlds/
http://www.purdue.edu/acsl/abstract/march10_06.html 
The Register reports:
“Called the Sentient World Simulation (SWS), it will be a “synthetic mirror of the real world with [...]

Multiverse shows off scalability

Multiverse, the DIY MMOG developer toolkit, shows off it’s scalability in this new (silent) video.
It shows how the world can handle 150 active avatars in one world simultaneously. For world developers this could help solve one of the main problems of virtual worlds, which is getting large groups together in the same world in [...]


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