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Second Life Island

March 4th, 2011 · No Comments · Second Life, virtual worlds

There’s a lot of interesting things happening at the University of Hawaii’s Second Life region. Today’s launch of the College of Education’s Second Life Island is one of them. Peter Leong (aka Ikaika Miles in SL) had a ribbon cutting ceremony in both real life (RL) and Second Life, with Donald Young, Director of Curriculum [...]

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Blue Mars makes it to the iPhone

February 5th, 2011 · No Comments · iPhone, virtual worlds

In mid-January, CEO Jim Sink announced that Avatar Reality was going to cease development for Blue Mars on the PC and focus on iOS rollout. The much anticipated launch of Blue Mars over a browser interface was also suspended indefinitely. Obviously a great disappointment for all of us touting Blue Mars as the next generation [...]

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Wagner James Au joins Blue Mars

September 9th, 2010 · No Comments · virtual worlds

Long time blogger, virtual world enthusiast and Kailua local boy, Wagner James Au will join the team at Avatar Reality, maker of virtual world, Blue Mars. His primary function at Avatar Reality will be to maintain his blog Blue World Notes, an ongoing journal documenting the launch, evolution and emerging online community of the user-generated [...]

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Avatar-Reality : Blue Mars

April 10th, 2009 · No Comments · virtual worlds, visualization, work

We recently had Dean Sadamune and Jim Sink from Avatar-Reality on Bytemarks Cafe. Unfortunately the radio show does not lend itself well to images. The images, as you can see amplify the story about Blue Mars, the virtual reality platform being build by Avatar-Reality. I got a chance to spend some time in the AR [...]

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