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Category: Virtual Worlds

  • Haunted Houses as Physicalized Virtual Reality?

    It’s October.  Sure, here in Chicagoland it’s been 80 degrees for the past couple days, but the leaves are falling, and the calendar can’t be lying.  It’s October, which means every young person’s fancy turns to the ghouls and ghosts that go bump in the night.  For the very young ones, this time means donning…

  • Virtual Worlds Book Chapter Published

    In a bit of self-marketing (as if this blog is not entirely that), I am happy to announce that I got my copy of Virtual Worlds and Metaverse Platforms: New communication and identity paradigms from IGI Global Publishers. There I am, as chapter 8: “Virtual worlds and reception studies: Comparing engagings My colleague from Roskilde University,…

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    Two Men and a Second Life

    As I’ve mentioned elsewhere on this blog, I spent two years working on a post-doc research fellowship for the Virtual Worlds Research Group at Roskilde University in Denmark.  During my time there, I conducted an experiment on how people make sense of two types of virtual worlds and compared these sense-makings to those while engaging…

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    Fear the Virtual World?

    I must make a confession up front: I would never have watched The Ghost Whisperer if it was not for my involvement with the Virtual Worlds Research Project at Roskilde Unviersity.  I’m most certainly not a Jennifer Love Hewitt fan, and the idea of the series never captured me.  Especially since it was on Friday…

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    The Story of The Dark Knight and Its Brethren

    Back in the spring of 2007, like other Batman fans who loved Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins, I was eagerly awaiting his follow-up, The Dark Knight. When the “I Believe in Harvey Dent” website went live in May, I was there with others. However, not long after the original website went live, some digitally scrawled graffiti…

  • Hybrid virtual worlds

    When I started with the Virtual Worlds Research Group at Roskilde University in Denmark back in the fall of 2008, the project had just begun producing its public blog on all things relating to virtual worlds.  Being somewhat new to what virtual worlds are, and could be, I started familiarizing myself with the varieties that…