For Immediate Release: VWBPE 2023 Conference UNCOMMON REALITIES 23 - 25 March 2023 in Second Life®

 The 16th annual Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference (#vwbpe23), beginning on Thursday, March 23rd, will be an online distributed conference happening in multiple virtual spaces. This conference focuses on the use of immersive virtual environments for educational purposes including virtual and augmented reality. VWBPE provides educational and networking opportunities that are relevant to educational curriculum development...

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Art in Virtual Worlds Metaphor Reflections Exhibit 2016

The Community Virtual Library in Second Life presents an exhibit of art work in virtual worlds during the fall of 2016. Overview and Schedule Grand Opening of Exhibit Monday Sept. 12th 5-7pm SLT Participating artists will share about art in virtual worlds at the grand opening. SLurl:  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bradley%20University/31/182/24 Live Tour of Exhibit Saturday Oct. 8th 9-10am SLT Wearable...

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Flipboard: The Value of Virtual Worlds- David Chalmers

If I build a business in Second Life, is that less meaningful than building a business in the non-virtual world? If I fall in love in virtual reality, is the relationship less significant?...Read mo...

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Community Virtual Library Celebrates "Summer in the Park"

When: Tuesday, August 2, 2016 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm, US/Pacific Come celebrate our Summer 2016 Exhibit Grand Finale "Libraries and Librarians in Virtual Worlds" alongside friends, colleagues, librarians, and educators in an immersive learning environment. Where:  SLurl: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bradley%20University/95/44/24   The Community Virtual Library is open to anyone interested...

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Community Virtual Library Summer Exhibit 2016

Libraries and Librarians in Virtual Worlds Grand Finale and TOUR Date:  Sat. July 30th  9amSLT Tour the exhibit, meet presenters and colleagues to build your PLN and promote your work in virtual worlds.  All are welcome to attend.   SLurl:  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bradley%20University/31/182/24 http://www.infoisland.org/news/summer2016grandfinaleexhibittour Valibrarian Valerie...

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Facebook with Privacy: Avatar Social Network is Your Answer

Facebook, https://facebook.com the online phenomenon born in 2004, became part of everyday life in a very short time. Everyone has, or had, a Facebook account at one point. With it's over a billion members, it is a social media icon in online connection. Create a profile with your name, schooling, job history. Find friends, family, share photos, post stuff, and keep in touch with folks. Play games, make new friends in communities...

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Avatar Social Network has been Nominated to AviChoice Awards 2015

Avatar Social Network (ASN) was launched to the public in 2013 and ever since it has grown to be the #1 social media website for avatars (ranked by Google), virtual world and MMO gamers, with the richest features, over 400,000 photos and various content is offered to thousands of members and the entire Internet community. With Facebook enforcing strict rules about real life names, IDs and accounts and Google Plus  plan to be shut down,...

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An Update Report on Second Life 2.0: Anything new happening with that?-Ceciliarosalie Reporting...

Recently I went back in time visiting SL’s historical locations in Second Life and marveled at our past. This time I researched what the future of Second Life might be with Second Life 2.0 on the minds of residents who wonder what will become of our current virtual world. Early in 2014 we heard the first rumors about a “new second life” that LL was working on, since then residents started talking more about this new project. I have to admit...

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Avatar Social Network (ASN) has over 5000 members. Join Today and Connect with other Virtual World Enthusiasts

The website is already the highest ranked among the social media websites for virtual worlds and avatars and while it's not the oldest it has grown and expanded significantly since its public launch in September, 2013. The unique nature of the website is its secure and reliable technical and community structure that welcomes not only Second Life residents but anyone from different open sim grids, IMVU or other 3D chat platforms and massive...

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Introducing Epic Gamer Radio in Second Life

Epic Gamer Radio, EGR, is not just any radio station, but an expanding community of volunteers and friends that have grown together as a family. Through years of experience, a small group of friends in the gaming community sought to improve and expand their horizons to new games and heights. A close knit family, these friends who met from within the internet radio industry, gaming, and podcasting, thus created an internet radio station for...

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Getting Connected with AvatarHookup.com; a new avatar social network available for virtual worlds- Lanai Jarrico Reporting…

Social Media plays an important role in how many people network and socialize in today’s technological age. It provides a digital place to share information, photo and videos with the masses at the click of a button.  There are a variety of social networks available across the web that provide a presence for free and can certainly replace the high costs of advertising if you know how to use them. Facebook is the most widely used social...

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Parallel Universes Part II: OpenSim – Stareyes Galaxy Reporting

Sometimes you hear of veteran Second Lifers (SLers) leave “for bigger things”. Quite often this means OpenSim (OS), or “Open Simulator” grids. OpenSim is a collection of virtual worlds running on Linden Script Language code (LSL) much in a similar way to how SL does. In contrast to SL, OpenSim is an open-source community, which means that the code is shared among developers and contributing to the grid is open to all.  There are variations...

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Parallel Universes Part I: IMVU – Stareyes Galaxy Reporting

There are many other virtual multiplayer environments than Second Life ©. Stareyes Galaxy starts on a journey to these in a multipart article series. The first one on her list was “IMVU”. IMVU boasts 100 million accounts and the concurrent logins are at 50 000 level. The company itself is based in the Silicon Valley and they have backing from several well-known venture capital investors. The target demographic for the community is the...

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Virtual Worlds Best Practices In Education Readies For Annual Conference- July 24th-July 27th Nomad Aries Reporting…

In the past I have written about the ways Second Life© has influenced the real world. I have written about how Governments, the Justice System and the entertainment world is using Second Life to breach distance and time zones in order to reach as many people as possible with information, assistance and entertainment. Second Life has become an invaluable instrument helping people to access services, gain information and provide resolution...

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Exploring Virtual Worlds- Pandora Drezelan Reporting...

Pandora's IMVU Avatar Second Life has been such a huge part of my real life for just over three years now, when I first signed up in December 2009 I thought that it was the only virtual world, until I started exploring outside of the grid. Pandora in Second Life Second Life For me Second Life is not only my first virtual world it is my second world and I have learnt so much in the time that I have been here. I’ve made many...

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