Posts Relating To: avatars

Virtual World Design Guidelines Courtesy of Microsoft

Between 1995 and 2001, Microsoft developed and oper­ated it’s own social vir­tual world. Named V-Chat, the ser­vice allowed users to cre­ate their own text-based, 2D, or 3D envir­on­ments in which they could chat and inter­act with other users. In it’s six years of act­ive ser­vice, V-Chat saw two major iter­a­tions, an act­ive end-user com­munity num­ber­ing …

January 9, 2010 – 7:20 pm | By Aaron | Posted in research, second life | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (4)

A Tale of Two Avatars

I’ve made no secret of the fact that my avatar, Az After­thought, was made espe­cially for my Second Life research. His pre­de­cessor, Aaron, was born some eight months earlier when a friend man­aged to con­vince me to sign up. Since cre­at­ing Az how­ever, Aaron has barely been used at all — I still login as …

December 8, 2009 – 1:23 am | By Aaron | Posted in Thoughts | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Book Review: ‘I, Avatar’ by Mark Stephen Meadows

‘I, Avatar’ is a book I took a chance on. I’ll be hon­est, the price and the fact that it was vaguely Second Life related is what sold me — the descrip­tion itself didn’t leave me with a lot of hope — the men­tion of ‘an exam­in­a­tion of avatars through the lenses of soci­ology, psy­cho­logy, …

December 2, 2009 – 3:15 am | By Aaron | Posted in Reviews | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)