What happens to your online world when your real-life world ends? When you give it up by choice, or through circumstances such as disability, or even worse, death? This is not a long, dry exposition on the intricacies of estate law. Heck, there’s not enough case law out there to do a seminar or a [...]
A good starting point for understanding Virtual Worlds in Education is this NPR interview that is found at Gamepolitics. The funding money is beginning to be there. It was recently announced that the University of Texas will be using 16 disciplines in Second Life. The details are that “A new, one-year project will set the [...]
Today’s post is: we’ll get a lawyer when we have a dispute… why bother beforehand! Back in the Game, Great article about when your hobby becomes your Job Working out the legal issues is important because virtual worlds are becoming more mainstream. Sony Online Entertainment said that its Free Realms virtual world drew more than [...]
No, this isn’t going to be a “creepy” post. It’s just a little sampling of those “weird stories” about virtual worlds that the mainstream media seems consumed by. For the most part, there’s less theft, less cheating, less adultery, and less “playing outside the rules” in VWs than in RL(real world). But that doesn’t make [...]
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