In my podcast I recently talked about my purpose to starting using virtual worlds together with my customers as a platform for collaboration to reduce the need of real-life meetings. In this podcast I elaborated which meetings I usually do with my clients, which of them I could do in a virtual world and which […]

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This podcast and blog post is in German. In this episode I talk about my musings regarding a definition for the metaverse. I talk about virtual worlds, mirror world, augmented reality, lifelogging and more related topics.
In dieser Episode geht es um meine Gedanken zu der Frage, was eigentlich genau […]

 

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The Electric Sheep company announced yesterday a new in-house product called WebFlock, which sounds like a nice framework to create web based virtual environments. ESC describes their product as following:
WebFlock is an application for private-labeled, Web-based virtual experiences. It provides a visually immersive environment for social interaction, media consumption and game play.
At its core, the […]

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This podcast and blog post is in German. This episode is about my blog post The Future of Corporate Websites - Sebastian Keil from the popular German podcast Kanal14 talked with my about it on his show.
Ich war diese Woche zu Gast bei Kanal14 und habe mit Sebastian Keil über […]

 

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This podcast and blog post is in German. In this episode I talk about my plans to start collaborating with my clients in virtual worlds. Collaboration in virtual worlds is a big topic - there are already quite a few solutions on the market and I guess it’s now […]

 

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Today I started to play around with Project Wonderland (weblog) because it’s in my eyes one of the most promising projects in the realm of future intraverses. It’s a open source project from Sun, which has been build upon different components (like the Project Darkstar) which already existed before and it has all in all a […]

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This podcast and blog post is in German. In this episode I talk with Christine from Weblin. Weblin is a German company, which developed a solution to have a virtual presence via avatars directly on websites. They started to develop this product in the mid 90ies and now have a […]

 

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This podcast and blog post is in German. At the Virtual World Salon, which has taken place recently in Berlin, I have talked to the founders of YOUin3D.com, the company who operates one of the largest German Second Life communities called BERLINin3D.com (aka newBERLIN)
I talked with them not only […]

 

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I have just received a press release from Twinity via email. To make it easier I will just copy and paste it this time.
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Metaversum GmbH, developer and operator of the 3D online world Twinity, announced today that metropolises are being built in its virtual world. Berlin’s Hackescher Markt and its immediate surroundings […]

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I have to say, that this is one of the strangest projects I have seen so far in the realm of virtual goods. WhatsYourPlace is a web based platform on which you can buy virtual land on Google Maps for real money.

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