Here's Jane McGonigal on TED Talk: http://on.ted.com/McGonigal [ted id=1501] … [Read more...]
Eve Online’s new expansion: Dominion
Eve Online is huge. And I don't only mean the universe it has spawned, but the waves it created that now reverberate loudly through the spaces of massively multiplayer online role-playing games. Eve is a player-driven, persistent world that culminates in an unscripted and emergent experience. … [Read more...]
Let’s ask Farmville to lend a helping hand to storm victims in the Philippines
via insidesocialgames.com Filipinos are crazy about Farmville. For the longest time, I tried to stay its lure, but eventually I succumbed to its calling. During the first 4 days of the storm, the absence of Farmville feeds from my Philippines network was striking. It's just a game, but I knew what … [Read more...]
Second Life avatars break through the real world
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2i-W9ncV_0&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x402061&color2=0x9461ca] As my 4 year old nephew would exclaim: This is pure awesomeness! This guys used Second Life as a platform for augmented reality. They've demonstrated the power of Massively Multiplayer … [Read more...]
User experience insight from a 5-yr. old
My "inaanak" (Filipino for "godson"), Egbert, had his birthday party last Saturday. He's turning 5 on Aug. 10. I got him a rubber dinosaur and a portable game gadget (the cheap ones) for his present. The gagdet contained some 20 simple, retro games -- the stuff I played myself all those years ago. … [Read more...]
Augmented reality: will it also enrich our understanding of the world?
Note: I am no augmented/mixed realities expert, but I have a big crush on it. The musings in this post were born in a train to Amsterdam, as I looked out the endless fields speckled by some contented cows lazing in the sun. Be warned: this post contains more questions than answers. =========== This … [Read more...]