Classes are already going on and Beta Technologies’s own Gwyneth Llewelyn is the Chair! The new classroom space is being used for the Virtual Worlds subject at the TeSP Gaming & e-Sports course of the School of Higher Education at Rio Maior, Santarém Polytechnical, Portugal. The new classroom is installed […]
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We are proud to announce that this week the LOCUS Project Amiais@SL project has joined the Virtual Worlds Education Consortium continent in Second Life ®! The VWEC’s purpose is to bring educators in virtual worlds together. LOCUS Project Amiais@SL’s merits are thus acknowledged by this welcoming into this growing territory […]
Second Life® has just turned 20 years old! Below are useful resources to understand what the virtual world is all about: A thoughtful long-read on The Guardian, from June 2023: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/10/who-needs-the-metaverse-meet-the-people-still-living-on-second-life The official SL20B documentary (BT’s own Moon Adamant is interviewed talking about community and democracy in the virtual world, […]
On Wed Mar 15th 2023, at 9-10am SLT, meet the ACRL Virtual World Interest Group at the VWEC Fireside Deck on to join a visit to the LOCUS Amiais@SL project. The ACRL — Association of College and Research Libraries is a division of the American Library Association. The ACRLVirtual Worlds […]
The research team for the City and Spectacle: a vision of pre-earthquake Lisbon project, which is recreating the city of Lisbon in 1755 just before the Earthquake of November 1, 1755 with Beta Technologies using OpenSimulator technology, is presenting the latest series of enhancements and remodelation of the current buildings at the Virtual […]
King’s College London has released the final report on the Theatron 3 project, which has been mostly developed by Beta Technologies for King’s Visualisation Lab. The report should prove invaluable for researchers and educators willing to engage in long-term projects in Second Life, and it is considered to be very […]
For immediate release: NEW YORK – In the 1980s there was teleconferencing. In the 1990s, videoconferencing came of age. Now there is 3D collaboration. Global companies like IBM and Northrop Grumman as well as many smaller ones are using the virtual world of Second Life Grid® for holding business meetings, […]