Hi Lilian, everyone: If that's your topic, you may like the second paragraph of the Onward! call for papers.
http://www.oopsla.org/oopsla2008/cfp_onward.html Cheers, and let me know if you want to know more. Dirk Lillian Yiyuan wrote: > Hello, > > Two of the most visible aspects of what is being called Web 2.0 are > Virtual Reality and wiki collaboration. If Wikipedia is a monument to > turning fun and procrastinating into something very useful and > valuable, VR so far seems to be the other way, a way of taking > creative energy and turning it into fun and procrastination. Part of > this is that most VRs have intentionally been "walled gardens," where > effort poured into the VR is only really useful inside of the VR. > > I'm hesitating to write this in case it breaks something that I've > been doing, but let me plunge ahead. One of the most interesting VRs > is Linden Lab's Second Life, which is being used as the basis for both > an OpenSim project, and for IBM's virtual world. It's primary > difference from the point of view of social and technical research is > that it has a relatively versatile scripting language called LSL, or > Linden Scripting Language. This language is being ported to run on top > of a mono virtual machine presently, but even in its current state it > can do amazing things. By querying and editing wikimedia wiki's it is > possible to bring information "in world," that is into the vr, easily, > and have wiki information control in world objects. This creates the > potential for true metadata to VR, with in world objects updating text > state, and text state controlling vr objects for display of > information, and finally true interaction, where both sides affect the > other. > > This is important because VR has been data processing poor, and > information poor, while it is social interaction rich. > > Are there other people looking at wiki-VR interaction? I can go into > more details about how this project is working off list if anyone is > interested. > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > -- Phone: + 1 (650) 215 3459 Web: http://www.riehle.org _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
