‘Virtual Worlds’ Archives
FTC guidelines to protect kids from online identity theft
Advertisers, bullies and sexual predators aren’t the only ones trying to get their hands on your kid’s information online. Don’t forget about identity thieves. Although many adults regularly check their own credit reports to keep tabs on activity, most [Read More]
Keynote Systems study finds sites plant 3rd party cookies to track you on the web
How prevalent is the use of tracking cookies that get planted on your computer after browsing a website so it can keep track of what you’re doing? Turns out that not only do the major websites like to plant their own tracking cookies on you, they’re also happy [Read More]
Google Chrome doubles users – hits 310 million users
Last year at Google IO, the company was bragging that it had racked up 160 million Chrome users. Since then, that number has nearly doubled, with the company claiming 310 million active users. Those consumers download roughly 1TB of data per day and type about 60 billion [Read More]
New report asks ‘Where is all the Internet-related venture cash going?’
Over the last ten years, more than $43 billion was invested in 7,200+ Internet-related companies, according to the PWC MoneyTree report. Fifty percent of those companies will disappear within the first three years of operations, and the average venture capital fund will [Read More]
South Korea gives you 5 years in jail for real money trading in virtual goods
If you’re in Korea and you play World of Warcraft, Second Life, or any of the dozens of huge online games popular in that country, you’ll probably want to read this: According to the Korea Times, “Korea has decided to ban trade for commercial game items [Read More]
Are toddlers becoming addicted to virtual worlds?
Just 29 months after Steve Jobs introduced the world to the iPad — the first truly successful tablet computer — many parents are finding their toddlers, in their words, “addicted” to the device in a way that differs from other playthings or even the ubiquitous [Read More]
Start-up Aurasma aims to bring mobile augmented reality to the world
By now we’re all familiar with the act of tagging photos on Facebook and uploading images to Twitter. But what if you could tag a real-life building with a photo of yourself or some other content, as a form of virtual graffiti? What if when someone else walked past that [Read More]
Google’s secret lab to sell virtual glasses that show text messages right before your eyes
Google is making prototypes of its futuristic, Internet-connected glasses available for people to test out. With the glasses, directions to your destination or a text message from a friend can appear literally before your eyes. You can converse with friends in a video chat, [Read More]
Got neck pain? Doc looking for volunteers for virtual reality treatment
The University of Queensland (UQ) is seeking volunteers to investigate the effect of a virtual reality device for neck pain. Developer Dr Hilla Sarig-Bahat of the University of Haifa, Israel, will bring the device to the University of Queensland next month (July 2012). She [Read More]
U.S. Military using virtual reality to treat post traumatic stress disorder
Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) and a Pasadena counseling center for first-responders are experimenting with a new way of treating PTSD: virtual reality. Imagine the most realistic war game of all time, in which soldiers experience the sights, [Read More]
