What has new Xbox interface got to teach us about virtual uptake?

[Paul Sweeney]

I've participated in a few discussions about what is needed to make SL and virtual worlds generally more acceptable to the mainstream. When / how will people come to see the richness and interaction potential of VW's? Is it technical (a browser based approach) and / or a question of decent training and induction and / or the existence of real world services to go in and buy and / or ... ?

All of the above would definitely help but I've been jolted by videos of Microsoft's new hands free, motion sensing virtual interface ( http://bit.ly/SJuH9 - link to BBC video). I don't have or even play an xbox but I think the potential here goes way beyond gaming peripherals. Rather than wonder how / when the mainstream will 'get' the potential of virtual worlds, perhaps this won't in fact come from (nor be limited by) the current crop of virtual worlds. Perhaps the future is virtual experiences which overlay and blend with our real lives in ways we are only working out now. Virtual worlds will continue and thrive but will not define our experience of virtual reality. Full post is here http://eduworlds.org/virtual-worlds/xbox-marks-the-spot-another-new...

[marcyneedham]

Bei ausgedehnten Winterwanderungen empfehlen sich Schneeschuhe der Markenhersteller MSR, Tubbs, Wolf und GV.
Moderne und hochwertige Kompressionsstrümpfe von CEP bewirken Druck auf die Muskulatur, wodurch die Blutzirkulation stimuliert, die Leistung gesteigert und die Regeneration gesteigert wird.