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Obama’s Speech in Ghana to be Broadcast in Metaplace and Second Life

The Vesuvius Group is proud to participate – with the Center for Public Diplomacy and Metaplace (Raph Koster, the founder of Metaplace, as usual, writes a very smart blogpost about the future of virtual worlds and how we can take our place alongside other social media in getting the news out) – in presenting the [...]

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

Virtual Beliefnet

The Second Life sim Virtual Beliefnet was used as an entry point sim for the online community of http://www.beliefnet.com which included a welcome area, event area, informational and user quiz space and a parceled off section for community housing, all set to a calming design and well landscaped terrain that included influences from various spiritual [...]

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Virtualive.tv

Virtuallive.tv was a mixed reality event that took place at the Canal Room Club in NYC and Simultaneously within Second Life. It featured the performances of the bands Buddhahead and Shock Radar playing live at the venue, streamed live into SL as the backdrop where the band’s avatars were performing for the virtual audience and [...]

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

PodCamp NYC – 2007

For the 2007 Podcamp NYC unconference we created the accompanying Second Life event build which included a circus themed area with a central event tent and tents for all sponsors that featured their logos, information and links to sponsor websites.
View the build In-World

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

Ymere

This build was created as part of a technology presentation for the Dutch housing developer Ymere. From architectural plans we built a replica of an apartment building in Second Life that was under new construction in Amsterdam. It was used as an interactive model and for space planning of the real architecture.
Visit the build [...]

Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

Morpheum

Created the virtual office space of Morpheus Media LLC, NY. Playful, elegant designed meeting and office areas, that defy RL conventions. Included conference areas, event stages, automatic tour ride, event management and development of prototypes for their clients and of new technologies.
View the build In-World
View images of the build

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

Sudo National Parks Visitors Center

This build was commissioned by the curator of the exhibition Pixel Dolls, Meat-Space, and Everything All at Once which was created for the Seattle Bumbershoot Arts Festival. For this exhibit we created a Fictional National park named Sudo by design of the real life artist Susan Robb. This included development of an interactive Trial Tour [...]

Thursday, August 31st, 2006