This workshop demonstrates how communities can reimagine public and civic spaces using virtual environments and other new media. As a participant, you will research andvredesign your own local neighborhood within the virtualvenvironment of Second Life. In the process, you will develop your own understanding of how public spaces shape civic life and propose ways to […]
How we mixed virtual with real in our workshop:
1. Audio streaming. We couldn’t secure a real-time audio stream, which would have been ideal, but we did OK by routing our audio through voice chat. The problem with this is dropoff, which the listener can override. Or we could have created a group chat, though that […]
Our workshop on creating learning environments in virtual worlds — trying to learn tricks from game developers — ended up providing, in itself, a spot lesson about user-centered design. Rather than tread the usual path of presentation / questions, we went for a participatory workshop. With that framework in place, we put ourselves at the […]
Journalist Misa Kurasawa from the Weekly Toyo Keizai met with a number of us a few weeks ago for a cover article about Second Life. The issue is finally out, and I think it covers the CyberOne and Hub2 courses. I can’t know, because the Toyo Keizai doesn’t publish the full article online, but the […]
