The Second Life Educators website is stocked with plenty of video on demand, posts about the conference, print materials, and more. Check it out at:
Check out this post over at the SLED blog about Louise Later’s Guide Dog project that was recently show off at ISTE’s speaker presentation series.
Our own Dr. Linda Mandlebaum (Polgara Paine), current director of Wheelies, has been working with the Guide dog team. Linda and I will be helping the team shoot some machinima of the project in the upcoming weeks. Stay tuned for video examples to be posted right here.
Beginning of the Year Tips: Five Things Students Should Know Before Creating Their Second Life Accounts
It’s August which means, of course, back to school time! The SLed mailing is is abuzz with questions about account creation, syllabus guidelines, and other issues related to bringing new students into the Second Life grid for the first time.
Let’s start with tips about account creation!
Read more at the link above!
Original Post at Mobitrends: http://www.mobitrends.com/
2008/08/27/head-tracking-in-second-life/
I someone at SIGGRAPH from Carnegie Melon who told me that 8 of their grads in the HCI dept went on to an internship for Linden Labs and were working on just such a thing (Mitch Kapor mentioned it at SLB5). But I’m not sure that this is the same team.
Likewise, this team is using a regular webcam… Mitch and his team are using the Zcam, which runs roughly about $250-300 (what I was told at SIGGRAPH). See the demo for that below
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