Yearly Archives: 2009

19 posts

Beta Technologies’ latest project opens today: CTT “World In Touch”

The Portuguese National Post Service, CTT — Correios de Portugal, has launched their virtual presence in Second Life® today. Their region, dubbed World in Touch, is CTT’s latest project using a vast variety of technological innovations in order to keep in touch with their clients. Developed by Beta Technologies, CTT’s […]

Beta Technologies Blogs available

Beta Technologies is pleased to announce their new blogs, for each of the Beta Technologies’ members, which are aggregated at https://blogs.betatechnologies.info/. The individual blogs are: The Armchair Traveller by Moon Adamant Business and Technologies in Second Life by Gwyneth Llewelyn Jeff Bush‘s blog Note: Both Moon and Jeff have requested […]

Not a game: Virtual worlds are serious business

Conference highlights entrepreneurs, trainers, pathfinders and new products Amanda Van Nuys (known in Second Life® as Amanda Linden) and Doug Thompson (Dusan Writer) will be among the featured presenters at the Leadership in Business fall conference, Oct. 27-29 at the Beta Business Park (www.betabusinesspark.com) in the virtual world of Second […]

Final report of the Theatron 3 project available

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 […]

City and Spectacle: A Vision of Pre-Earthquake Lisbon (Updated for VMSS 2009)

As part of the ongoing work with CHAIA (University of Évora), Beta Technologies upgraded their long-term project for the virtual recreation of the city of Lisbon just prior to the 1755 earthquake which utterly destroyed most of the downtown. As further research reveals more fascinating aspects of a Lost City […]