Metaverse Infrastructure Emerging, and Ethnographies of Blended Reality

The Virtual Worlds 2008 conference is going on in New York this week, and Technology Review is reporting on the announcement of the first of a wave of tools we'll see for inter-operability of virtual worlds like Second Life or Club Penguin.

In this instance, the demo is being used to show how virtual worlds that require fancy 3-d clients can be re-rendered in browsers as Flash content. As TR reports:

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