Teleportation Between Virtual Worlds Now Possible As Linden Partners With IBM

IBM is predicting that we will all be using holographic phones with 3D projections by within the next five years. Big Blue told Bloomberg that its 3,000 researchers had been gazing in their crystal balls and had come up with a...

Self-styled 'virtual worlds pioneer' John 'Neverdie' Jacobs believes that virtual reality holds the secret to eternal life - and in a publicity stunt of questionable taste has resurrected his deceased fiancée as...

Reports suggest that Microsoft has made a number of secret acquisitions this year, including the takeover of Vivaty. According to Virtual Worlds News Microsoft has acquired Vivaty and is currently bidding for Second Life, in...

The Tameside Council in Greater Manchester has scraped the £36,000 virtual town hall on online computer game Second Life, after only one year.Council IT bosses said the initiative was scrapped as they were unable to...

Linden Labs, the company behind the virtual world Second Life, has acquired two start-up firms, namely “OnRez” and “XStreet SL”, for an undisclosed sum.  Incidentally the acquired companies have...

A report compiled by the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), shed light on the increasing perils of virtual world fraud which the agency said could threaten 1 billion people worldwide. The EU agency carried...

Within 24 hours of announcing Gmail Themes, Google has decided to shut down Lively, its short-lived Second-life'esque world that was launched back in July 2008. The site quickly reached fame, rivalling Second life traffic, but...

Google has presented a beta version of brand new Virtual world called Lively (motto : Express yourself in rooms you create) and is being presented a a 3D Virtual Experience straight from Google Labs. The project started life as a...

The Information Security Forum (ISF) is warning of an increase in malicious threats including attacks from organised crime and industrial espionage, along with a rise in mobile malware and Web 2.0 vulnerabilities. These are just...

Increasingly over the last year, I have been asked to share my thoughts about virtual worlds (e.g., Second Life and World of Warcraft).  After repeated provocation, I took a peek into these interactive 3D La-La-Lands to see...

A virtual job fair for Luxembourg, which aims to recruit high-calibre candidates to take up skilled roles, is attracting keen Second Lifers from 45 different countries world-wide. Set up by Gax Technologies and taking place on...

Residents of Second Life can now become cash buyers for land and property in their virtual world.By stepping up to the Ukash terminals located in the Bulido Money Service outlets in the phenomenally successful virtual world, the...

Intel expects the rise of 'the 3D web' to transform the way people use the internet, with virtual worlds such as Second Life being deployed in the medicine and wider business sectors. Intel's CTO said that this may be the killer...

Research conducted by the Fraud Advisory Panel, a charity set up by the Institute of Chartered Accountants, claims to show that the popular online worlds such as Second Life are unprotected against the problem of financial...

US authorities are investigating gambling in the virtual reality world of Second Life. The FBI has reportedly examined casinos that operate in the game following a month-long crackdown on internet gambling."We have invited the...