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Michael and Michael welcome special guest Ian Hughes (AKA – ePredator). Ian is IBM’s metaverse Evangelist from the Hursley Lab. We spend time reviewing a bunch of open source and open platform virtual worlds. We also look at cross world integration with IBM and Linden Lab’s Open Grid Beta. Both Ian and Michael R. welcome listeners to come visit us at the Virtual Worlds’ Conference in LA and join Michael R. at GDC Austin. This week’s show was streamed live on Kyte.tv.

emetaverse 101
eightbar team
Unity 3D
Real Xtend
Open Croquet
Electric Sheep’s Webflock
Exit reality
Google’s Lively

emetaverse 201
Open Grid / ugotrade
Virtual Worlds LA 2008
Game Developer’s Conference – Austin

(duckboxxer) – Spherical Display

this week in spam
UK lottery – We Won!

final thought
Michael M – iphones in Japan
Ian – Rooparture in lego minifig style!
Michael R – Up to 5.57 by keeping vista off – rock solid!

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This week Matt Simpson and Michael Rowe take time to have a little phone with listener tags. But before that begins, a quick review of virtual reality verses Real reality, takes the guys into a nice discussion of the necessity of physics.Show Links:Fredic Birthday – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates_of_Penzance#SynopsisObligatory 3D Internet Section:Virtual reality is Real Reality – Digado – http://digado.nl/virtual-reality-is-real-reality.htmlRay Kurzwell at Ted- http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/38Howard Rheingold – Way-New Collaboration – http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/216Innovation Section: Scott Innovation Insights Tag – http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/anthony/2008/02/sony_winning_the_wrong_war.html?cm_mmc=npv-_-listserv-_-FEB_2008-_-InnovEntreWii Outsells PS3 – 4 to 1 – http://www.joystiq.com/2008/02/28/brawl-effect-wii-outsells-ps3-4-to-1-in-japan/Shameless Self Promotion Section: Dogear-Nation – Evil Episode 29 – The Evil Episode – http://www.dogearnation.com/2007/11/06/dogear-nation-episode-29-the-evil-episode/Beehive yourself – http://beehive.cambridge.ibm.com/beehive/events/?id=ff808081182e32e0011832d9073d50d45 Reasons to Give Points as Incentive – http://beehive.cambridge.ibm.com/beehive/hive5s/?id=ff80808115d73edd0115faed47696fbcAndy’s Dogear Nation Widget for the Mac – http://jumpgate.homelinux.net/random/DogearNation.wdgt.zipFinal Thoughts:Top 20 Oxymorons – http://www.stonerguy.com/2008/02/27/the-top-20-oxymorons/

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This weeks musical interludes are brought to you by Lord of The Rings Online and the Zune. Michael R. gives his perspectives from the Game Developer’s Conference, while Michael M. and Matt S. admire Luis Suarez’s announcement of becoming email free. Free your inbox and get some Swag from Dogear-Nation’s new Coffee Mugs.

Dogear-Nation Coffee Mugs –http://www.dogearnation.com/2008/02/22/added-how-to-tag/

Games and Mind Control:
GDC — http://www.gdconf.com/
Emotiv — http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080220005408&newsLang=en
Computers match human brains — http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/computers-to-match-human-brains-by-2030-782978.html

The Data Center of the Future
3D Data Center — http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Infrastructure/IBMs-Labs-3D-Data-Center/

Entertainment
Nanoscope — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqc4kp5CHKU
Mikael Haglund –>
Zune videoshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRKIDdIaFyE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIk4qTKmKzE
Project Gizmo — http://www.gizmoproject.com/
Luis Suarez — http://w3.ibm.com/news/w3news/top_stories/discuss/2008/chq_lifewithoutemail_022008.html
ODW Next — http://w3.tap.ibm.com/myTAP/offering/viewoffering.wss?offeringId=OFF50161

Obligatory 3D Internet Section
Brian Olore — http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/02/bad_avatar.phpVAT in SL — http://secondlife.com/corporate/vat.php
Portal Song in LOTRO — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OFIWagOkGM
Stairway to Heaven — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS3PwQ26eRo

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Michael, Michael, and Matt get a boat load of listener tags this week. The guys also focus on products we all need, new media, and products we didn’t know we needed. Michael R. will be in San Francisco for GDC – come stop by and say hi.

Listener Links (Ian Hughes, Andy Piper, and Bill Sweeney)
Predictify — http://www.predictify.com/

Obligatory 3D Internet
Pass It On — http://passiton.tap.ibm.com/learning_path/show/205
Virtual Worlds projects — http://beehive.cambridge.ibm.com/beehive/hive5s/ian.hughes@uk.ibm.com/? id=ff80808117f0a8f10117f84712a46775
Ian Huges Blog — What’s going on in Virtual Worlds — http://blogs.tap.ibm.com/weblogs/ian.hughes@uk.ibm.com/entry/what_the_bleeps_going_on

3D mindmapping visualization,
the brain — http://www.thebrain.com/

Products we needMacBook Air — http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2254759,00.asp
HiPhone — http://www.live25.co.uk/content/say-hello-hiphone

Didn’t know you needed it, but here it is
Streaming video straight from your phone — http://qik.com/
Understanding organizational culture — http://www.valuebasedmanagement.net/methods_schein_three_levels_culture.html
3D printer — http://daily.mahalo.com/2008/01/24/md043-next-engine-3d-scanning/

Final Thoughts
Michael M – http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18757574&ft=1&f=1001
Michael R – http://survey.kauffman.org/survey.cfm?id=273
Matt S – “I want television mounted to my head!”

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