Some web references I picked up at the ‘Creating Second Lives’ conference in Bangor.

Exit Reality is an application that allows you to present every web page as part of a 3D virtual world, and to move the same avatar around them. I’ve been a bit limited in my ability to try it out, as it doesn’t run on a Mac and I don’t have time to fiddle around with it at work. My first impression, though, is it takes a lot of energy because you need to configure each web page as you get there. I guess it would be fun to see my Flickr site as a 3D gallery – but I waste enough time already messing around with my pictures online and don’t need an excuse to spend more time there.

Mmogchart.com tracks 45 virtual worlds – each of which has over 10,000 subscribers. Looks like an excellent resource for research – although there doesn’t seem to be much activity on the website at present.

I was impressed by the idea of gamesusd, which apparently translates the currencies of different games into dollars. The site is there, but all its downloads are dated 2005, suggesting that the exchange information is no longer current.

A video I thought wase worth watching. ‘Make Love, Not Warcraft’ – the South Park episode set in World of Warcraft. I usually find South Park unwatchable, but enjoyed this one. I haven’t provided a link, as it tends to appear on the web and then be removed for copyright reasons – but then someone else posts it, so it’s worth Googling. Although the makers worked along with Blizzard, they apparently had to enhance the footage, because machinima made in WoW wasn’t high enough quality.