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Eric Hackathorn
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Lafayette, CO, United States - Share
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- Where you live:
- Lafayette, CO
- Where you work:
- NOAA & Maya Realities
- About Me:
- Eric Hackathorn started with his first computer before he learned to ride a bicycle. His father was kind enough to allocate him 100 KB of the family’s 10 MB hard drive: one of the first commercially available of its kind. Since that time, he has spent a majority of his time dabbling in all things computer related. After graduating from high school, he started working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Boulder, Colorado. At the same time, he attended and then graduated from the University of Colorado majoring in electrical and computer engineering. He continues his work at NOAA today as an IT specialist.
Eric has taken a back seat to his much handsomer counterpart Hackshaven Harford. Hackshaven is Eric’s avatar (a virtual representation of himself) and exists only in the virtual world known as Second Life. Together they have been busy designing a public 3-D space to highlight the research NOAA performs. In addition, they recently formed a company "Maya Realities" to explore 3-D virtual world metrics. In essence, helping to gauge the return on investment for companies creating beach heads in virtual worlds such as Second Life.
- Favorite Places in Second LIfe:
- NOAA
Maya Realities
- Website:
- http://www.mayarealities.com/
Groups
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Architecture and Design
(4 members)
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Virtual Journalism
(2 members)
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Academic Researchers
(14 members)
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Second Life Analytics
(12 members)
Reuters Second LIfe News
OpenSim charts path away from Second Life
OpenSim looks and feels very much like Linden Lab's Second Life. But top OpenSim developers see a future where their software is a generic platform for 3D software, hopefully interoperable with the Second Life Grid but not necessarily resembling it.
Blog: Avatars beware: Private investigators scouring Second Life
Be careful, that avatar on your sim could be a real-life private investigator sent in to report on what you're up to in your Second Life.
Microsoft eyes integration between OpenSim and Windows Live ID
No one's really sure yet how avatar identities will be managed in a chaotic world filled with thousands of interoperable OpenSim grids. But Microsoft believes it has a solution: its own Windows Live ID.
Blog: Gibson guitars enters Second Life
If Second Life isn't effective for real world marketing, no one told high-end guitar manufacturer Gibson.
Interview: Linden prepares for an OpenSim future
A future where the Second Life Grid is a minor player in a sprawling Metaverse of thousands of competing virtual worlds sounds like a bad outcome for Linden Lab. But company executives say that's exactly the plan.
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