Another great initiative coming out of the University of Western Australia: A Second Life machinima has been custom made for the first time for one of the major units for a degree programme at UWA with the efforts of UWA Associate Professor Natalie Skead, former champion of the international UWA film challenges, Laurina Hawks of Berlin, and UWA virtual worlds founder Jay Jay … [Read more...] about Second Life and Law Teaching
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Second Life: What Makes Us Human Competition
The dynamos at Uni of Western Australia have launched another great competition for content creators in Second Life. Having had the pleasure of judging some of UWA's great art / sculpture competitions in previous years, I have no doubt this one will be another cracker. Here's the full details via the UWA in SL blog: A UWA 3D Creation Challenge: What Makes us Human? UWA … [Read more...] about Second Life: What Makes Us Human Competition
Project Sci-Fi: Enter Your Machinima
The team at University of Western Australia continue their amazing virtual worlds work, hosting the machinima section of a huge undertaking called Project Sci-Fi: WD Project: Sci-Fi Film Challenge (Australia) 2013 is a Competition run by Screen My Shorts Inc in collaboration of WD (S.E.Asia Ltd). We invite entrants of all ages, cultures and ability to submit original creative … [Read more...] about Project Sci-Fi: Enter Your Machinima
Grand Finale: UWA 3D Open Art Challenge
Once again the University of Western Australia's Second Life presence has pulled off a brilliant Art Challenge, and for the second year in a row I've had the privilege of being a judge. This year there were a lot more entries, making the judging both more challenging and more fun. It also showcases the improvements to Second Life as far as the detail of art works submitted. … [Read more...] about Grand Finale: UWA 3D Open Art Challenge
Merged realities – events and issues for virtual worlds
1. The ABC's Island in Second Life continues to have a bunch of activities going, with regular building tutorials back on the agenda and plans underway for Easter events. 2. The University of Western Australia has released a book: 100 Treasures of UWA and one of those treasures is the UWA's Second Life presence. 3. Some great brain food on virtual goods and intellectual … [Read more...] about Merged realities – events and issues for virtual worlds