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eLab City

Live, Work, Play in the Virtual World

Get involved with eLab City! eLab City will be a live-work-play community in Second Life for the study of virtual consumption. eLab City is a project of the Sloan Center for Internet Retailing at the University of California, Riverside.

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For an overview, read the eLab City concept plan. What are your ideas?

Powerpoint slides from ACR 2007 presentation, "Consumer Behavior Research in Second Life"

eLab City is a project of the UCR Sloan Center for Internet Retailing.

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Blog Posts

Coming Spring 2008: Virtual Virtual

Virtual Virtual
an exhibition of new work by Peter Stanick

coming to eLab City in Spring 2008

Posted by Tom Novak on December 6th, 2007 at 6:38pm — No Comments (Add)

eLab City Development has begun!

The Sloan Center for Internet Retailing is very pleased to announce the selection of eLab City's development team:

Cezary Ostrowski, aHead
http://www.tutaj.com.pl/ahead/

Nadia Hennrich
http://nadiahennrich.com

Visual artist and compos

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Posted by Tom Novak on December 6th, 2007 at 6:01pm — No Comments (Add)

The Persuasion Power of the Virtual Self

When the Virtual You Changes the Real You from Scientific American, MP3

A podcast by 60-Second Psych gives a brief report of a study by Jesse Fox at Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction… Continue

Posted by Shuoyang Zhang on November 28th, 2007 at 3:41pm — 1 Comment (Add)

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Sneak Preview - eLab City

eLab City will "soft launch" to the Second Life public in May 2008. Attached here is a pdf with some screen captures to give you an idea of the look of the sim.

Started by Tom Novak Apr 16

Your experience with development?
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We're starting to get a good size group - what's people's experience with Second Life development? Have you contracted out work, hired students, or built things yourself? If you've gone through thi... Continue

Started by Tom Novak. Last reply by Arturo Sinclair Mar 11.

Concept Plan for eLab City (November 5, 2007)

The pdf below provides the current concept plan for eLab City. You can read the plan for a complete overview of the eLab City project.

Started by Tom Novak Nov. 2, 2007

 
 

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Reuters Second LIfe News

Blog: Training virtual border guards

Even as some panic about the possibility of terrorist exploitation< of Second Life, a program in Canada is using the virtual world to catch people at the border.

Cinemax documentary asks: Why Second Life?

The new documentary film "Molotov Alva and His Search For His Creator: A Second Life Odyssey" seeks to tackle the issues of virtual identity head-on.

EVE Online experiments with virtual democracy

It can be difficult for the most well-meaning of virtual worlds companies to understand what their customers want. But CCP, the company behind the sci-fi world of EVE Online, thinks they've solved the riddle: have users elect their own representatives.

Blog: Rivers Run Red wins a Webby

Metaverse development company Rivers Run Red won a Webby award for Branded Content for their work promoting Coca-Cola in Second Life.

Report finds jihadist presence in SL ‘very minimal’

As Western governments search the world for terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda henchmen, a new report suggests that wherever he's hiding, it's probably not in Second Life.
 

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